yes we can! and so can you!

we should use their idea in the ending credits


sane zach asked a great question, we'll we be able to finish this scene in time. my initial response is "it is not too much work."

Reasons for my position:
it is storyboarded to under 3 minutes so it can be edited upto 3 minutes rather than downto. This means no extra footage. animation and drawings will make up for less than 33% of this project. this includes credits illustrated or colláged by mikey millz filmed with glitter blown across them.


I think it is important to understand the narration is completely read and recorded without need memorization and read rapidly but clearly. I am continually abridging the narration for timing leaving room for the "complicated" scenes.


scenes take a certain amount of time to film, period. In order that we don't have to spend all the time in the same place, I think it would be beneficial to all meet up so we can run through the locations. I would like all the lighting and blocking set up really in the next few days. I would like to have finished blocking by the 5th or 7th, The less I meet my goal, the less time we'll have when shooting comes.


from shortest length to longest length, here are the main 6 location:


(1) Under Madaline's bed
(2) Dinner at the family table with grandfather
(3) The graveyard driveby,
(4) The Freemasonic Lodge on Soquel & Main
(5) the Grandfathers room with the closet


the first doesn't even have any dialogue, it is just an establishing pan of madaline reading trotsky under the bed. the second is just a wideshot of the diningroom table. It has two lines but only one angle with one tilt for when Andrei stands up at the table. the third has one line and three angles. The wideshot of the graveyard from across the street showing the car driving into frame and stopping to look at her, her closeup and a reaction shot through his open passenger window at his face staring at her. the fourth is just for inlcuding the freemasons in the film, and has two scenes, but its the three angles, just two sets of dialogue and a total four lines. mainly the establishing shot and two over the shoulder mediums. the fifth is the most intense, thats the grandfathers closet room, thats with the special scary character, the kidnap and climactic finale.

(1) Under Madaline's bed
establishing: medium closeup. low pan tilt.

(2) Dinner at the family table with grandfather
establishing: wideshot. tilt up for andrei's standing retort

(3) The graveyard driveby,
establishing profile across the street. medium closeup of madaline. closeup of andrei.

(4) The Freemasonic Lodge on Soquel & Main
establishing wideshot: Freemason sign closeup. two medium over the shoulders.

(A) there is also a brief establishing andrei and brother running up the stairs which takes place before the finale.

(5) the Grandfathers room with the closet
establishing madaline lighting insense, closeup of lighting insense. extreme closeup of smoke. medium of madaline laying back, cut to czevdolbie abduction.






and the dialogue is all one liners...