2016 Film Directing – G1

Scratched the VR idea — This is draft two of Mother (new idea).

Script: Mother (妈的) Draft 2

Short synopsis:

Widowed Margaret loves her son to the point of spoiling him. With no husband and a fear of dying alone, she obsesses over prospective grandchildren. After walking in on her son and his male friend in a misleading situation, she sets her Read more →

Jon

Aged 28, Chinese.

Jon is a beaten man, heavily burdened with the choice to terminate the life support off his comatose father. He has a great disdain for his father who was abusive to him when he was young, caning him whenever he misplayed the piano.

He is emotionally scarred by the piano practices with his father, which consciously haunts his life Read more →

Attached here is the scene analysis for the Carpark Scene

Total shots: 6

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Reference Image for Scene

Actors required:

James (main protagonist) An Otaku of 26 years old, unemployed, full-time gamer who is 100% reliant on his mother for life support from the comfort of his gaming throne. An uncaring individual who games from day to night, screaming vulgarities and savagery at noobs all day long. Little do we know that there is a sliver of humanity and compassion left Read more →

This post features my Script Draft 3, Location Scout Draft 1 and my prop and location list

Script Draft 3 changes – I changed the final flashback scene of Father giving Jon his favourite food

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Location Scout 1 – Some of the areas I want to film. Might not be the exact locations but can be considered

Download Link – https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3WOIluIFSSaVVpHQm1PQTVTZUU/view?usp=sharing

Prop List – Read more →

Joe / Early 20s.

Joe, the protagonist of my film, is an opportunist, lonely and horny. He isn’t exactly very good looking or ugly, an average joe really, but strangely charming. Perhaps this is why he manages to get girls online to do what he wants to satisfy his sexual needs. He is desperate to wrap girls around his fingers and Read more →

> Here’s my second draft script <

6 pages long!

Directing 01

After meeting with Sebastian, it was decided to develop a narrative based off the prompt of bad things that could happen at a 21st (birthday party). (This idea was triggered after watching Bad things that could happen https://vimeo.com/16094710 ) 

From this however, I have branched out to characterise, much more fully, the persona of the protagonist and her family. The Read more →

Screenplay for Directing Kayue

This is draft 1 of the script.

I liked Sebastian’s idea of a social recluse burdening the family, so I went with that premise but scrapped the part about a family business since it would mean more scenes and a longer film.

I plan to cut down a few more pages and compress the story more by the next draft.

Link: Love Read more →