Script Synopsis V1
Quick start outline
(03-09-19)
Joe in fur, once upon a time... two takes. facing camera, facing away from camera.
"If you could tell yourself something..."
Hideout
we see Christina and hang on her for a bit in surveillance
he leaves, road flowing by (Road = Joe)
Theme song. We establish the boat, Gerry, and Christina getting into her cabin.
Then in close up, we hear Christina singing Veronique
switch to Lena, breaking branches
Joe's voice utters a line. Lena repeats. back and forth.
Then her carrying branches and Joe teaching boxes, boxes appear in fields
Outline
03-02-19
Scene • Carnage Theme Park - Armor staging area at Nuke Waste Repository
Scene • iRock - Surveillance before mission
Scene • Uncle Joe's Hideout - Context
Scene • Bicycle Ejaculation - Arming security at the hideout
Scene • Activate Hideout Security - Femur is pulled in
Scene • Post Apocalyptic Chardash - Flashes of extrapolation to come
Scene • Show Theme FUDIP - Opening Credits + Christina, Gerry and the Big Boat
Scene • Apocalyptic Diversion A
Scene • Paul's Pype - The Fungus Box Fusion
Scene • Apocalyptic Diversion B
Scene • Collapsing wave functions to Slam - Christina in her cabin with bubble wrap
Scene • People's Poetry Slam - Christina re-remembers
Scene • Collapsing wave functions to Fire - Christina in her cabin with bubble wrap
Scene • Ring! - Christina is brought back abruptly
Scene • Hello - A re-memory of meeting Roger, the ET
Scene • But... you're Dead - Raising a significant objection
Scene • Just Open the Door - Hero's invitation 1/3
Scene • Best Scenario Yet - Childhood promise
Scene • Creaky - what's waiting for her out there...
ACT I
Scene • Can I Come In? - Hero's invitation 2/3
Scene • Check It Out - Joe inserts magic disc
Scene • That's him - Hero's invitation 3/3, "Now?!"
Scene • Apocalyptic Diversion C
Scene • Date Dance - recapitulating consumer tropes with costume
Scene • At Gerry's Door - In the hallway, about to knock
Scene • Grown Up Ghost - Reading PKD to young Christina
Scene • ACT II
Scene • I've been sent by God...
Scene • We Just Have To - Christina at a loss
Scene • Joe Traveling 1/3
Scene • It's God
Scene • Apocalyptic Diversion D
Scene • Joe Traveling 2/3
Scene • Apocalyptic Diversion E
Scene • Joe Traveling 2/3
Scene • Do It Again
Scene • Credits
Scene • Boxes Display Christina
"Now be all boxes. Even smarter. Gerry inside box. Keep Christina Safe."
Scene • Spook Office - Uncle Joe, I haven't seen him in days
Scene • This Is Your Uncle Joe
Scenes Inventory
Apocalyptic Diversions
- Heros (4-5)
- Scene • Wall Street Under Water (Vimeo)
- Scene • Open Season (Vimeo)
- Scene • Smart Money (Vimeo)
- Scene • Canyon Princess + (Vimeo)
- Scene • Amphibious A380
- Scene • Flying Wall
- Scene • Post Apocalyptic Chardash (snippets of the above plus)
- Scene • Return of the Saurians (Joe traveling)
- Scene • Empire State (leaning in water, skyline under ice?!)
- Scene • Abrams silhouette (gorgeous tank in sunset, prayer flags in silhoutte, bird landing in silhouette on barrel. or maybe with dragon or terradactyl flyby?)
- Scene • Saucers face-planted in field with dunes in the distance. Old farmer, "this works pretty good, made it myself." holds home made device with hand lettering "scalar weapon".
- Scene • skeletal hand with credit cards and a box of twinkies
- Scene • Melted Cityscape (Skyscrapers like candles, homage to Planet of the Apes sequels. Clay on foam armatures.)
- Scene • Tsunami Aftermath (Container Ship wreckage with Big Boat) Longer hold, then in the background of big boat
- Scene • Breakthrough. Something Uncle Joe said to her. We will save the world. You will save the world. Anything else we need to say?
Christina Flashbacks / Re-memories
- Scene • Flashback - Joe's Speech to the Clique
- Scene • Flashback - Christina at Hideout
- Scene • Joe Placing Miniatures, ("realism is really more a suggestion than an assertion") The flicker of a hand arranging the tanks or some other miniature, giving the hint that the whole scenario is arranged.
- Scene • Behold Roger!
- Scene • Best Scenario Yet
- Scene • People's Poetry Slam
- Scene • Grown Up Ghost - Reading PKD to young Christina
Joe Traveling
- Scene • Joe Traveling 1 lifts branch with foot
- Scene • Joe Traveling 2 iceboat 🙂
- Scene • Joe Traveling 3 bicycle
Alternate Starts
Scene • Carnage Theme Park - Armor staging area at Nuke Waste Repository
Scene • Uncle Joe's Hideout - Surveillance before mission
Scene • Bicycle Ejaculation - Arming security at the hideout
Scene • Apocalyptic Chardash - Flashes of extrapolation to come
Scene • Show Theme FUDIP - Opening Credits + Christina, Gerry and the Big Boat
Scene • Apocalyptic Diversion A
Scene • Paul's Pype - The Fungus Box Fusion
Scene • Apocalyptic Diversion B
Scene • Collapsing wave functions to Slam - Christina in her cabin with bubble wrap
Scene • People's Poetry Slam - Christina re-remembers
Scene • Collapsing wave functions to Fire - Christina in her cabin with bubble wrap
Scene • Ring! - Christina is brought back abruptly
Ancient Origins
Email reply to Chris Carden from 10/05, Christina character development [expect_extraordinary]
Daughter of God Version 0.9, Misdirection. Several vignettes wrapped up like a burrito.
Life as game vision [life_as_game]
Plans
Screener in 5 days
- Feel the meta flow, the whole story - outline
- What's available now?
- All the tested scenes
- What could be available in 2-3 days?
- Iteration 1!
- Christina in chair reboot
- Uncle Joe's voice over for People's Poetry Slam
- Gerry's props
- Miniatures
- Blue-Ray printer tray
- Paul's Pype?
- Letter to Cannes for translation
- Credits
Screener in 10 days
2nd pass
- Amp up scene completion and supporting production
- miniatures
- Gerry's props
- drone footage
- seeking voice actors (Mel,
Em, Joe, Lena, Craigs) - set construction - compost bins
- essential proof of concepts - paul's pype, reaper
- slam together inventory!
- insert the latest versions of as many scenes as I can find
- insert slug text where the scene does not yet exist
1st pass
- √ slam together a timing edit with whatever we gots!
- 30+ minutes, what to do?
- √ find media, where is Ada B b-roll?
- √identify more movie - Signals from a Nearby Now
- design new scenes for iteration Two