Production Project Step 2

Team Members: Danielle Jones (screenwriter and sound) Denis Deyneko (cinematographer), Anoosh Poorian(director), Marian Suarez (producer and editor)

Our film is based on the idea of dream sequences. Our main character has 3 dream experiences where he dies, and when he returns to “reality” he actually dies.

• Treatment: First scene is at a party, Second scene is in a bedroom, and the final scenes are still in development, but we plan to end at the party.
• Locations: Our houses
• Our PP will be based on the psychoanalytical film theory and will be using the film technique eye-line matching.
• Tech Needs: Camera
• Haven’t recruited any juniors yet
• Research (Wikipedia): Eye-line matching: A term used to point to thecontinuity editing practice ensuring the logic of the look or gaze. In other words, eyeline matching is based on the belief in mainstream cinema that when a character looks into off-screen space the spectator expects to see what he or she is looking at. Thus there will be a cut to show what is being looked at: object, view, another character, etc. Eyeline then refers to the trajectory of the looking eye. The eyeline match creates order and meaning in cinematic space. Thus, for example, character A will look off-screen at character B. Cut to character B, who-if she or he is in the same room and engaged in an exchange either of glances or words with character A-will return that look and so ‘certify’ that character A is indeed in the space from which we first saw her or him look. This “stabilising” is true in the other primary use of the eyeline match which is the shot/reverse angle shot, also known as the reverse angle shot, commonly used in close-up dialogue scenes. The camera adopts the eyeline trajectory of the interlocutor looking at the other person as she or he speaks, then switches to the other person’s position and does the same.
• Screenwriting software: Adobe Story