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Sit right back and you'll hear a tale.
For my Visual Production Design class, our final project was a photo-storyboard (set to music) of an orignal short script. I came up with a heartwarming tale of a young man who is mouring the loss of his young wife. Originally, I was going to have it set in a dance club; sort of night out with his friends in a vain attempt to cheer him up. But he's completely disinterested. So when, after a few beers, he sees a ghostly woman in a white dress who looks an awful lot like his dead wife, he follows her out onto the busy city street (think Hollywood Boulevard). In his mad pursuit, he doesn't watch where he's going and get hit by a car while crossing the road. When he comes to, he's dressed all in white. The once busy street is now completely deserted: no cars, no people. Only the street lights. Then, when he turns around, he sees his wife. He realizes that he, too, is now dead. But he's with his wife again, so he doesn't really care. They dance happilly into the afterlife.
Sweet, but not exactly practical. First of all, there's no way I could get any section of Hollywood Blvd. shut down for any length of time. Second, I couldn't find a dance club that would let me shoot there. So, in lieu of the dance club, I had our young man go where I go when I'm down: the beach. And it was pretty easy to find actors. All I had to say was, "You'll be spending the evening in Malibu." I got two people almost immediately.
So today, we went down to the Malibu pier to shoot the project. On the way down there, we ran into Problem Number One: Malibu, unlike the rest of Los Angeles County today, was foggy, damp and cold. And since it was getting dark a lot earilier than we had anticipated, Problem Number Two was trying to figure out how to get the camera to take pictures that weren't all birght in the foreground and dark in the background. I had envisioned a beautiful, picturesque sunset. I got a moody, brooding, gray sort of thing. But you know what? It sort of works. Not exactly what I was going for, but sometimes, you just have to take what you're given and make the best of it. BOUT TIME I LEARNED THAT LESSON, HUH?
So anyway, I know I can work with what I got. It's different, but still good!
But I still wanna do the original script! Someday...