Script Synopsis V4
V4 for I2
That's Script Synopsis Version 4 for Screener Iteration 2. See Script Synopsis V2 for more elaborate descriptions of what each chunk is about. This replaces Script Synopsis V3.
What I'm excited for
feeling a sense of flow from scene to scene
• describing the scenes with enough detail to know how to realize them and build a strong flow
the dog universe feels internal self consistent, overall
• outline links to -> everything excellent
outline -> specific scene details and concepts -> alternates, archives
simplifying or loosing clunky ideas
03-11-19
Sequence - Prelude
Why Prelude?
√ Scene • Road River - Near Here, Almost Now
Joe teaches oral history to the future, the start of a fairy tale, Once Upon a Time.
Armor staging area at Nuke Waste Repository, Joe's secret hideout.
Scene • iStone - Surveillance before Big Boat
need synopsis and current edit
Schtick with Uncle Phil and Cousin Eiji, see and hear Christina, check in on Gerry.
Scene • Uncle Joe's Hideout
need synopsis and current edit
we've jumped in...
merely establishing the location, or something else?
finger touching hand made control panel (like Gerry's) see reference for this interface
or holds up IRock (iRock is magic) - make throwing away iRock later mean even more
Scene • Bicycle Ejaculation
need synopsis and current edit
Exiting the Hideout. Like sperm, navigating the harsh inter uterine environment on the way to the egg
Scene • Femur retracts
need synopsis and current edit
iStone "Hideout security activated", the whole thing is a sham
Scene • Accelerated Hideout Departure
need synopsis and current edit
departure from tunnel, accelerating away from farthest shot, some nasty apoco comes into the frame up in the hills as the road rolls away. Scene • Joe Traveling - depart Hideout
Sequence - Theme Song
Why Theme Song
Scene • Post Apocalyptic Chardash - Flashes of extrapolation to come
What Joe sees / has seen traveling...
Music and Opening Credits. Introduce Christina, Gerry, Big Boat, iStone map displays progress towards the big boat with icons, ends with Christina closing the door to her cabin.
Post Apocalyptic Interstitial 01
Almost a non sequitar, new chapter
Sequence - Introduction
Why Introduction
√ Scene • Road River - Big Boat Route
Joe's getting closer, map with big boat
Apocolyptic cutaway
Presage?
√ Scene • Collapsing Quantum Wave Functions - Christina in her cabin with bubble wrap.
Development of Christina
Collapsing Quantum Wave Functions - Doesn't have to mean anything, Cathar magic is mysterious
fragmented flashbacks and forward - kidhood, (Ada out takes) fire
√ Scene • Road River - Big Boat Route
Joe almost there
√ Scene • Paul's Pype - The Fungus Box Fusion
We were born yesterday!
Development of Gerry + Introducing BOX
Gerry in his cabin sleeping, the BOX can see the audience and welcomes them, gives an enthusiastic tour of Gerry's gizmos, development of Gerry. Last line, "Gerry!"
√ Scene • Ring - Christina is brought back abruptly
√ Scene • Hello - Flashback! 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 • Here I Come
Christina stands up and approaches door, stops
Scene - Joe's farewell speech to the Clique
Flashback! Young Christina eavesdrops on Joe's phone call, becomes an elaborate speech before an audience of dolls.
√ Scene • I'm opening the door
√ Scene • Best Scenario Yet - Flashback! Childhood promise
Scene • Creaky - what's waiting for her out there...
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?!"
Post Apocalyptic Interstitial 02
Almost a non sequitar, new chapter
Sequence - ACT I
Why Act I
>+2 Scene • Boxes response - Gerry sleeping still...
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 • At Gerry's Door - Knock
Post Apocalyptic Interstitial 03
Almost a non sequitar, new chapter
Sequence - ACT II
Why Act II
Scene • ACT II
Scene • I've been sent by God...
Scene • We Just Have To - Christina at a loss
Scene • Road River
> Scene • Joe's boot hint
Scene • It's God
>+2 Scene • Road River
Post Apocalyptic Interstitial 04
Almost a non sequitar, new chapter
Sequence - ACT III
Why Act III
Scene • Do It Again
Scene • Spook Office - Uncle Joe, I haven't seen him in days
Scene • This Is Your Uncle Joe
Boxes in many locations waking up. Changes propagating...
√ Scene • Road River - Teach the Future
iStone interface - Future transmission mode, Lena. Begin Arborealists
√ Scene • People's Poetry Slam - Arborealists + Boxes
ends with Lena standing, interrupted by iStone Automated Transmission
√ Scene • Road River - Automated Transmission
the Clique's apocalyptic machinery is regressing forms, Joe gets a broadcast from the robotic controller to "all field operatives". Joe sees forms along the road devolving.
Post Apocalyptic Interstitial 05
Almost a non sequitar, new chapter
Sequence - Act IV
Why Act IV
Scene • Joe tosses iPhone away
Uncle Joe (in suit). He decommissions the rock somehow, perhaps with a display. He throws the rock into the grand canyon, ocean, into outer space, (repetition of throwing motion with 3 different backdrops).
Joe is gone, where is Joe?
Scene • Death of Uncle Joe
Matching shot of him walking out of frame and transition to furry guy same direction. "Three years later..."
Scene • Buffalo Joe roams the land
a wooly cloaked figure roams across a desolate wintry landscape
identity is shrouded by hood
silent
Scene • Burned boxes
wandering by a field of burnt boxes
CU of hand stirring the ashes
another cluster of burnt boxes, briefly stops
another cluster, passes by
√ Scene • People's Poetry Slam Bonfire
The People do their thing, then Joe. Joe's ode to the boxes isn't received well, the people don't trust the boxes, they leave. Great Kahuna throws box on fire. Burning box, message for Joe.
Joe hasn't gotten close to a box lately because for reasons unknown to him, they've been taking them to remote places and burning them. He doesn't really think too much about this, until they burn one in front of him. This proximity allows the BOX to finally make contact with him.
Post Apocalyptic Interstitial 06
Almost a non sequitar, new chapter
Sequence - Act V
Why Act V
Scene • Buffalo Joe Traveling
Forest Walking (fallen trees)
Rowboat - On lake + On river w/Snow
etc.
morning meditations
repeated dawn and Joe meditating in different locations. maybe he never sleeps. holy vampire
Crying on concrete
Buffalo Joe emerges from the forest and encounters a slab of concrete which flashes him back to the comet that wiped out manhattan. he embraces the concrete and sobs. "I don't know why this is only hitting me now, I feel so sad." Looking up and around "Oh, yes I have your love, always available." Back at the concrete, "Yet here on Earth they were so adorably quirky and confused. They'll never be that way again."
Scene • Buffalo Joe and The Box V4
Scene • Plant the Dirt Bike
Scene • Opening the Cache Guns and Motorcycle, Groovy Cut
Scene • Shaving (darkened corner)
Post Apocalyptic Interstitial 06
Almost a non sequitar, new chapter
Act VI
Scene • To the Mountain Top (Dune)
Scene • Negotiating with Veronique
Scene • DOG twins throw down
Scene • BOX monster over hilltop ROARS
Scene • little girl scared, scooped up by her Dad / Uncle Joe
Scene • now she won't remember a thing until her first menses. Heaven help us then
Post Apocalyptic Interstitial 07
Almost a non sequitar, new chapter
Act VII
Scene • Credits
What makes a Scene and Scene?
every scene advances, moves one or more things forward, also tho completely autonomous and stand alone, makes sense as a tiny moment itself
Christina Flashbacks / Re-memories
- Scene • Flashback - Joe's Speech to the Clique
- Scene • Flashback - Christina at Hideout
- Scene • Behold Roger!
- Scene • Best Scenario Yet
- Scene • Grown Up Ghost - Reading PKD to young Christina
Joe Teaches the Future
- Scene • opening
- Scene • People's Poetry Slam Lena
Joe Traveling
- Scene • Joe Traveling 1 lifts branch with foot
- Scene • Joe Traveling 2 iceboat 🙂
Joe Wisdom
- 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 • (there is other stuff)
[09-30-19] not sure what this was... Scene • Breakthrough. Something Uncle Joe said to her. We will save the world. You will save the world. Anything else we need to say?
Summation so far, tanks and military wreckage, a secret hideout that isn't what it appears to be, a peak at Christina and Gerry through Surveillance, exit the secret hideout then road trip which triggers the theme song which basically says, we are starting the show. We see in RL Christina and Gerry, the Big Boat. This ends with Christina closing the door to her cabin. If we go back to the road (and iRock map, Joe getting closer)
03-10-19
Fade to road. Stuff going by, (the real story) Iteration 2 we plug in the People. For now, placeholders and scenes that describe what he's talking about. Wall Street Under Water, Smart Money, Open Season, Canyon Princess. When switching between Joe and People, sometimes there's interstitial moments and sometimes we go straight to the people gathering.
> Scene • Road River C1 - Fauna ("lasers" under Open Season)
Scene • Open Season
Scene • Road River C2 - "scientists are found"