Breif for Final Project : Chivalry is dead

Breif for Final Project : Chivalry is dead

3 DIfferent approaches for topic

1. Record the ideal date for a female, then the ideal date for a male

- Show the contrasts in ideas in the appropriate manners for a first date between a man and woman
- Make everything to the extremes

- Womans date: Boy, well dressed, on time, knocks on door with flowers, kisses her hand, opens door, car door, pays for nice dinner, gives her simple kiss goodbye and calls her the next day

- Mans date: Shows up, 20 min late, womans ok with everything, scandalously dressed... takes her out in crappy car, plays loud music, to mcdonalds, goes back with girl at end of date

2. Record one date where the male does just about everything wrong, you hear the thoughts of the woman

3. like 2nd video in video analysis- go through womans thoughts (memories on date with man) hear her thoughts on how everything went wrong...vise versa

B. More fullly developed idea: thoughts and memories of female's date with male

Why?

This topic is on my mind quite a bit. I find myself very traditional in the way a man should treat a woman mainly because thats how I was brought up. Im interested in finding out why there is such a sudden shift against the unwritten rules everyman should know when dealing with women.

Locations:

- restaurant seating (maybe out doors of starbucks?) room with white wall background (dorm lounge), entry way with large doors (shaffer? slocum?)

Ideas about shots/lighting: The lighting should be bright during the "memory" part of the scenes. Im thinking about doing darker, more dramatic lighting for the parts where the woman is sitting and talking about her date. As far as shots go, there will be one straight forward one, when "interviewing" the woman about her date and then for her "memories" I like the idea of shooting the people, but not showing their eyes. It shows the disconnection both men and woman have for each other.

Permits/Permissions? permission of my roommate casey and my hall mate brendan to be the actors

Potential Problems? lighting has always been tough for me to keep standard, finding adequette times for the actors and actresses to meet and film.

Timeline:

This weekend: write out script and what I want to be said throughout film
--->sunday: film as much as possible
---> monday: film more
---> tues: film more
---> wed: free
--->thurs: upload footage for class
--->start editing in class
--->weekend: shoot any other footage you need
---> mon-thurs: EDIT