nighttime windows script

nighttime window script 

scene 1 - abusive relationship 

open to a black screen. after a few seconds a light turns on. shown is small window in the middle of the screen. it has a few family objects in it. 

a small black cat enters from the darkness and sits on the window sill.

the sound of arguing come in softly and progressivly louder. as it does the camera zooms in.  when it reaches its peek there is the sound of a glass smash. the cat jumps of to the side and is lost in the darkness. 

two shilouttes enter the scene. a man and a women. they are shouting and grabbing each other. they leave the window and a light turns on the room to the right. they are on the bed having sex. as they do this a small child enters the window on the left. 

scene 2- exesivness

 the camera pans over and the sex noises are overcome by the sounds of a party. there is flashing lights in the window. there is a girl sat in the window throwing up and crying. you can see a couple kissing on her right. the cat walks pass unnoticed. it jumps over to the room in its right. the window sill is covered in bottles. in knocks many off. you hear a girl walk into the room the fall over with move glass smashing. the cat jumps off down

scene 3 - possessions 

the camera follows down and sees the cat land on a new window. the room is full of hoarded objects. a mouse runs over some of the objects. there are lots of photos of a relative. an the objects are their stuff hoarded. walking across to the next ajesent  room the cat sees a bird on the window sill the cat chases it and amedialty is greated with dogs barking up at the window and loads of other animals running around in the background. the bird flies off. 

scene 4- learning. 

the bird lands on a window sill. the cat follows and traps it. then lets it go. a girl runs in the room and slams the door. you can hear the school bell as she does this. she thows her bag off to the side and runs off to her telescope and looks out. the cat looks up with her. then walks off. as it does the window glass reflects the stars. 

****needs a transition here into more surreal elements 

ideas- 

mirrow in the room. 

scene 5- mirror room 

the jumps onto a window. one of the windows is open. the only thing in the room is a single mirror. the mirror shows a scene of nighttime windows. the cat walks into the room and steps through the mirror. the camera follows through. 

scene 6- isolation - cinemagraph 

the camera passes close to a window. the scene is a cineagraph of a man looking out the window. a few things move in the background. like the fan and his hair. you can see that he doesnt have company often. the camera is very close to him and the cat is again unnoticed. 

scene 7- tv room 

the camera zooms in on the wall of light up rooms at one room fills the frame. the cat is sat on the window sill washing itself. inside the  window is static

 studdenly it switches to found footage from the news. showing war and such. after a while it is switched to cartoons 

scene 8 - digital pixel art 

the cat enters the frame. the window is covered by curtains. the cat enters the open window. the camera follows through. inside is a man sat at his computer. is is all 2d pixel art. behind his computer is a whole world full of computer refrences and methaphors for the digital age. the cat goes up to the guy. he strokes it but doesnt look away from the computer. the curtains fall infront of the camera and it moves on. 

scene 9- claymation 

the camera moves on to another room. inside is a claymation man. he is looking at himself in a mirror and shaping himself. trying to make himself look like the pictures on the wall. he ends up crying and ripping bits off his body. the cat plays with the clay. then leaves. 

scene 10- history parrlax effect. 

the cat walks past window. it is now a kitten. the window contains a parralax landscape with lots of elements of old black and white photos which move. they show many parts of human history, good and bad. the cat walks off, getting older as it does. 

scene 11- loop animation 

A is sat in his office looking out the window. in the backround you can see the whole process of his work. people doing things. he has one job to stamp something then does it over again. the whole process loops perfectly. the cat intrupts this loop and the whole process falls apart and the man smiles and the cat leaves. 

scene 12- paper animation 

the cat enters the window. inside is paper cut out people in a social situation. one of the people is constantly changing into different things to try and fit in but is ignored till he turns into something attractive. the cat is in the corner ripping up paper. when the see it they shout and it leaves 

scene 13- 2d pencil drawingite) 

little guy drawing his own meaning and rubbing them out. 

scene 14 -composite human influence

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Scene 15- 3d END 

night time windows - room styles

For this project i really want to boast my technical ability whilst also creating a small film which is interesting and fun to watch. I found it difficult to decide on one style for the rooms so i decided what could work better would be to have diffrent art/film styles for diffrent rooms. I will use these styles to illustate something in the story in the room. i will list a few ideas here.


room styles 

claymation animation 



model looking at himself in the mirror, shapping himslef to look like photos on the wall, then tearing bits off.










pixel art 

i want to use pixel art to represent the digital age. maybe a guy working on his computer and inside the computer is a whole pixel world. have it 2d with on the left the guy working on his computer and on the right behind the computer a whole world.

art style pixel

cinemagraph 

I want to use this to show isolation. by having a person still and little things around him moving.
cinemagraphs







parralax animation 


tyrells crisps animation
this advert  really inpresses me. it has an interesting style. i like how it's uses to represent a historical vision. I would like to play on this idea. maybe a room full of elements from old photos. an animate them in this style

isolated colour 

maybe have a landscape scene with colour slowly coming in element by element.




paper stop motion animation 


origame person. changing into diffrent people to try and fit into a situation. maybe a social event or school.

3d animation 













loop animation vector


guy sat at desk, looking at camera, perfect loop in the background. cat interrupts this loop






pencil art 2d animation








live action 








composite 








cartoon 

style - composite nightime windows

This is the style of windows i want. this is the modle i want to start with. complete black background and lighted up windows like this. 

I think having diffrent shape windows works best to create isolated stories. I also dont like a iniform look like the last picture. making a shape out of the windows doesnt work either. 

now i had to create this style and adapt on it for my own film.


1. Firstly photos of the windows themselfs. these will be cut out and used as frames

these frames will be cut out and then coloured. 

I will use a post production filter to create the illusion of glass. 

2. secondly i will create the objects in the foreground of the windows like curtains. this i may have to do in green screen. 

3. i will need to then create in interiors of the rooms. I will film many different types of rooms and use mise en scene to create a atmosphere. 

this is were set design will be most important and setting the camera to show the illusion of looking through a window. i am still thinking whether to use live action or a photo. 

once im set on the stories/ theme i will start desing the interiers. they will need fairly realistic so i do it to peoples rooms. 

4. i will have to create the shiloutes of the people or animals to tell the stories. I will either do this through green screen, routtascoping or animation. 

this will all depend on time scale. rotascoping or greenscreen would look the best but animation would be quicker. 

3rd year film- scenes/ themes

After talking in our group tutorial i realised the next step was to decide on themes and story ideas. I want to have stories to be go on their own without needing to be to thematically important. it should at the forfront of the piece.

another thing which came to my mind was connecting the windows together having something that pushes the story along. I had a few ideas like paper falling in the wind ect but my favroiute one and most visualy intresting would be a black cat

i think the black cat jumping between the windows would allow for alot of interaction which will be good for the story. also the cats connection to curiuosty works well with my theme. 

here are a few ideas for themes/ scenes 

abusive relationship- having a couple fight in one room, the light turns off and then in the other room them sleeping together passionatly. 

learning- a school child throws their bag on the floor and runs to look through their telecsope. 

pets- a pet bird flys out the window. dogs bark at the cat. lots of random animals in the room. 

hoarding- room full of random objects. photos and objects of dead family membor. 

faith - shouting father with kid. kid prays after he leaves. 

addiction (acholism) - cat knocks bottles of windows sill. 

party- girl throwing up out window. fun and crying. 

news- window is tv. goes from news to cartoons. 

A big part will be transiting between the more "normal stories" and the surreal methaphorical elements. 

dfsa- 3rd year film. final idea

from thought through the ideas i have had. i settled on adapting a script idea i had last year. the idea came from looking at windows at night from my house. i particularly liked the windows with bright colours and the shiloutes that are shown of the people inside. I like the idea of the story you can only see snipits of, i think its a good way of telling a story.

i want to embulate this in a film. a black screen populated with little stories in each window. i will use animated character shilouttes but use live action windows. 

I am intrested in maybe using the composite style in a couple of windows to create a surreal style. 

sound will be muffled and words wont be able to be heard just intentions. 

I will use active cameras inside aftereffects to move closer to windows. 

I take influence from the film rear windows element on voyeurism. I want to take this further and use it as a methaphor for our voyeurism on world issues such as climate change and politics. 

I will be using the mis en scene to create atmophers in the room. and location methaphors in the composite rooms. 

Surreal documentry

I want to try something new. I've been playing around with the ideas of surreal documentary. 

I want to access deeper meanings. using story, documentary, and surreal imagery. 

I think if i use a subject for the documentry which is methaphorical i can end up telling more. 

my first idea is to use the white dear of dunsfold or the abanodoned railway. 

I want to combine documentary and composite film making influenced by surrealism and "up and up". 

i need to devolp the idea further. i think it could work well as i've been struggling with the drama idea i had. 

3rd year film- idea development

3rd year film

for my last year i really wanted to showcase my skills and improve in some key areas. 

my areas i wanted to improve was - 

after effects- in particular compositing 

story telling - either through documentary or drama. 

I want to work on a single film of my own and help out a couple of others post production. 

from the presentations the people i'd be interested in helping is

umor- sound 

maisie - animation 

colin- lighting  

(maybe others) 

for my idea i have been struggling to think what i would want to do, especially in the debate between drama and documentary. 

My main influnce and style influence was composite live action. 

here is the information from my powerpoint. 

story

•A lone light house keeper keeps watch over a light house on an asteroid in space.

•When something knocks into his lighthouse and fallen object gives him a flashback to something his had lost.

•He sets off following a light in the sky

•He visits worlds on his way

•Ends up discovering something different in the end. 

•The man and the inside of the lighthouse will be drawn animation

•I want a similar style to house of many cubes. intermit and scratchy

•I will animate frame by frame to give a natural feel. 

•I made use live action but not sure.