It has been a while since I last blogged. Truth is I have been away in various places over the last few weeks and in the meantime have been working heavily on some short film ideas. The best of them is a horror idea, which I ACTUALLY plan to shoot within the next month. It is called Heavy Water and follows a man named Tom, who is a heavy drinker. One day after a meeting with his ex girlfriend he goes on a particularly heavy binge before heading back home to find more booze. He falls asleep and then wakes up in a horrific, dark hallway where there are loud whispers, babies crying, vicious creatures and most importantly darkness. After this dream, Tom sees that he needs to deal with an issue that has plagued him for years. This is possibly the most sinister idea I have ever had, which I think stems from more exposure to a plethora of horror films in recent months. It is usually a genre I don't have much time for but it has started to grow on me and I find the idea of scaring people within the space of ten minutes in film quite a cool challenge. There is a synopsis/step outline written, so please read it and give me feedback. Also if you are interested in working on the project give me a shout at igilani89@hotmail.co.uk
I have a screenplay written from about 9 months ago called Reading My Dreams and I decided to revisit it recently. I still think it is quite a strong idea and a funny screenplay but it definitely needs work. I would quite like to shoot this in a few months as well as it would involve a lot of fun scenes. For example a man dressed as Lady Gaga, someone running away from a tiny boulder Indiana Jones style, cardboard Transformers and Batman versus The Joker on a rooftop. Again if you email me I will send you a copy of the screenplay and please give feedback, it would be greatly appreciated.
Until next time.
Ib
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Monday, 20 June 2011
Homogenic
Now that I have finished uni life has become a lot slower and I have become extremely relaxed. This has been reflected in the music I have been listening to. Bjork's masterpiece 'Homogenic' has been on a constant loop through my speakers. I then found myself dreaming of being alone in an icy landscape with the stars beaming down on me and my breathe clearly visible. I hear something scuttling in the distance. I walk towards the sound and the song 'All is Full if Love' starts to play. As I walk further on, I notice a small light in the distance so I run towards it. The closer I get, the brighter and larger the light gets, the song plays louder. I run faster and faster as the sun starts to rise. I get to the edge of a cliff and realise that I have been following the sun rise. The music stops and I turn to my right and see a doorway standing in the middle of the ice. I slowly move towards it and open the door to a pathway, which has hedges placed either side of it. At the end of the pathway there is an impressive looking spiderweb, which is coated in icicles, making it look like a large snowflake. I break a part of the web and climb to the otherside to another doorway. The door opens for me and the song starts again. I end up on the ice again and lying in front of me is a bed of roses fully blossomed despite the cold.
This image overwhelmed me massively and got me thinking about the relationship between music and images. This lead me to coming up with the idea of making an audio visual film utilising Bjork's 'Homogenic'. The film will follow a young girl named Joga, who is abandoned by her parents in the snow of Iceland. She makes artificial flowers as a way of making money and surviving. Eventually she is taken into an orphanage where she meets a young boy. They become fascinated with each other and eventually developna relationship with each other but the boy is taken away to be housed with a family. Joga makes it her mission to find the boy and travels across Iceland to find the boy.
This will be one of the most rewarding and challenging screenplays to write but I am looking forward to it.
This image overwhelmed me massively and got me thinking about the relationship between music and images. This lead me to coming up with the idea of making an audio visual film utilising Bjork's 'Homogenic'. The film will follow a young girl named Joga, who is abandoned by her parents in the snow of Iceland. She makes artificial flowers as a way of making money and surviving. Eventually she is taken into an orphanage where she meets a young boy. They become fascinated with each other and eventually developna relationship with each other but the boy is taken away to be housed with a family. Joga makes it her mission to find the boy and travels across Iceland to find the boy.
This will be one of the most rewarding and challenging screenplays to write but I am looking forward to it.
Thursday, 19 May 2011
The Chain
Yes this post has something to do with the awesome Fleetwood Mac song but more on that later. First of all, Otis is finished! It feels like such an achievement to have written a feature screenplay and one that I actually feel is reasonably good. I'm going to miss writing about all of the characters, especially Laurence, but now is time to move onto...more screenplays. First on my list is to complete the trilogy, yes Otis is part of a trilogy. The trilogy is more about theme than actual sequential story lines. It is called the Road trilogy, where the main characters go on a journey in relation to losing the most important woman in their lives. The other two films that complete the trilogy are Rabbit In Your Headlights and Eye For An Eye.
Rabbit In Your Headlights is the next tick box on my screenplay list. I'm looking forward to setting my own deadlines for that film and having the time to give my work to people with them not being rushed for feedback. Devon and Cornwall won't know what hits it when zombies arrive and bring carnage to the sleepy west country. I want to avoid having comedy involved in this film and it be really emotionally involving for the audience.
Eye For An Eye, the Western I spoke about in an earlier post, has it's opening scene. I'm so excited by this because it just sounds awesome to me. Here it goes: The saloon is completely rammed and the local drunks are shouting abuse, singing songs and smashing glasses. The anti-hero steps into the saloon and The Chain starts to play but it's only instrumental. He asks for a drink but the barman has to have a look for it when one of the drunkards starts on him. The protagonist tells him that he shouldn't have done that. The drunkard smashes a glass on the table and says that he wants a fight. The protagonist turns his head sharply and everything goes slow motion. The bass kicks in and he starts to tear apart the bar, beating up and killing everyone in the saloon before leaving. The barman returns with everyone unconscious. We see the protagonist riding off in the plains. This is going to be a sprawling epic and highly stylised. Going to have to watch a lot of zombie films and Westerns for research in the coming months. Not such a bad thing.
Rabbit In Your Headlights is the next tick box on my screenplay list. I'm looking forward to setting my own deadlines for that film and having the time to give my work to people with them not being rushed for feedback. Devon and Cornwall won't know what hits it when zombies arrive and bring carnage to the sleepy west country. I want to avoid having comedy involved in this film and it be really emotionally involving for the audience.
Eye For An Eye, the Western I spoke about in an earlier post, has it's opening scene. I'm so excited by this because it just sounds awesome to me. Here it goes: The saloon is completely rammed and the local drunks are shouting abuse, singing songs and smashing glasses. The anti-hero steps into the saloon and The Chain starts to play but it's only instrumental. He asks for a drink but the barman has to have a look for it when one of the drunkards starts on him. The protagonist tells him that he shouldn't have done that. The drunkard smashes a glass on the table and says that he wants a fight. The protagonist turns his head sharply and everything goes slow motion. The bass kicks in and he starts to tear apart the bar, beating up and killing everyone in the saloon before leaving. The barman returns with everyone unconscious. We see the protagonist riding off in the plains. This is going to be a sprawling epic and highly stylised. Going to have to watch a lot of zombie films and Westerns for research in the coming months. Not such a bad thing.
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