Module 1: Introduction To Screen Media Practise #3- Pandora Notes
Pandora’s Box- Static Shot
As mentioned before my Idea for the First video is to portray the Myth of Pandora’s Box. I am using a simplified version of the myth. I have also began to adapt the plot into simple voiceover script- (I will cut this down as planning progresses, just to illustrate the actual plot of my video):
THE CITY OF LIBERTAS STAT E. IN THIS RICH SPRAWLING DYSTOPIA OUR STORY BEGINS HERE, IN THE MOST IMPOVERISHED AREA OF LIBERTAS, WITH A GIRL CALLED PANDORA.
SHE LIVED AMONGST THE FACELESS LIBERTANS, A SINGLE LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS. THE FIRST HUMAN FOR 15 GENERATIONS. THE LIBERTANS REMOVED ALL SIGNS OF HUMAN EMOTION FROM PUBLIC VIEW, CEMENTING THE WORLD TO A COLD EXISTENCE.
PANDORAS FATHER, WORKED WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT, TASKED WITH DESROYING THE FINAL REMAINS OF HUMANITY. ONE DAY HE RETURNED FROM WORK WITH A BOX HE HAD REUSED FROM WORK MARKED CONTABANNED; THE BOX WAS FULL OF HER CLOTHES FRESH FROM THE CLEANERS. BUT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BOX WAS A SMALL BLACK CUBE, SHE KNEW SHE SHOULD RETURN ANY ITEMS TO HER FATHER BUT IT WAS PLAIN ENOGH TO NOT AROUSE SUSPICION, SO SHE PLACED IT ON HER DESK NEVER TO BE OPENED.
SO THERE IT SAT, DAY IN DAY OUT UNTOUCHED, BUT EVERY DAY IT WOULD INCH CLOSER TO HER, UNTIL.
FINALLY SHE COULDN’T STAND IT ANY LONGER, THE BOX WANTED TO BE OPENED, WHATS THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN SHE THOUGHT. SHE GRABBED THE CUBE AND TRIED TO OPEN IT ANYWAY SHE COULD, HOWEVER NOTHING WORKED.
AS SHE SLAM MED THE CUBE ON THE DESK SOMETHIN G CLIC KED. THE CUBE SPUN AND FLIPPED AROUND, THE BLOCKS SHIFTED AND SNAPPED, IT FELL ONTO THE DESK WITH THE BLUE BLOCK CENTERED ON THE TOP, AND FROM THE BLOCK ROSE A BLACK BAR.
AS SHE HELD THE BAR SHE REAL ISED IT WAS A COMPUTER DEVICE (USE BLACK PLASTICENE THAT CHANGES TO USB STICK.)
SHE RUSHED TO HER GOVERNMENT ISSUE COMPUTER AND OPENED THE FILES, WHAT SHE SAW WAS A THOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY, HUMAN EMOTION AND FREE SPEECH LAID BARE IN FRONT OF HER, IT CONSUMED HER COMPUTER, AT FIRST SHE TRIED TO PREVENT IT, TAPPING KEYS FURIOUSY, WITH IMAGES AND OPNIONS FLICKING ON THE SCREEN. NOTHING HAPPENED.
SHE REMOVED THE DEVICE, EVEN CUT THE POWER LEADS (SPLIT SCREE N- WHEN CUT SCREEN GOES BLACK, SCREEN SHOT MOVES TO CENTER OF SCREEN
SURELY THAT WORKED? (SCREEN COMPLETELY BLANK WITH UPLOADED 100% IN BOTTOM CORNER)
These are literally typed up version of my notes:
Dystopian land. Images of wasteland and ruined city, town sign, layers of fog.
Narrator telling tale/ relate to new settings.
OR
Typewriter text on screen, large, distorted, at angle, using tv static to flicker and appear. White, overlaid.
The box is a black rubix cube, one blue square, solves itself- stop motion, blue in top middle, usb rises from square, places in pc, human emotion on screen. Tries to stop it, uploads.
Dark blue tint, high contrast (not extreme) bloom
Extreme sound, tv static, instrumental music.
Everyone else wears a mask, highlight her importance.
Time lapse, sat undisturbed.
-everyday it would inch closer to her. 2 frames dark, 2 frames light, plain background.
Quick exaggerated movements, stand up in class, everyone turns head.
Matte paintings- white rooms photoshop and chroma key, view out windows- made easier by static shots.
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