Okay class,
Don't forget to post your treatments here. Rember to use active, present tense. And this is just a treatment, not a proposal, so focus on describing your story. We will use these to prep you for pitching! This will also help you later on in your writing class(es) to outline the stories you develop.
Have a great week,
Mariah
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MAKING FRIENDS
FADE IN:
You see a playground of children playing, laughing and running around kicking a ball. JAMES is a happy youth playing with his peers unknowing that one of them is now heading towards him to knock him to the ground because of dare that was just made only moments ago between a few bad seeds of the yard.
TEDDY was always an angry child and knew only of hurt because of his past, and it was coming out again! Running as fast as he could, Teddy slams right into the back of James with both of his arms folded in as to almost hit James with his elbows. As James hits the ground hard, landing almost on his face, Teddy is laughing with no remorse. As Teddy rejoins the group of trouble makers they are laughing and giving him hi fives. James, now getting up from the assault has tears in his eyes and his right elbow had minor cuts and grass stains in his clothes, he heads running toward the bathroom to wash his wounds and face so nobody could see that he had started crying as he was running.
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Teddy was about a year and a half older than everybody else and always did poorly in class. He always avoided raising his hand and always sat near the back of the classroom and behind the biggest student he could find so he could hide and not be seen as much as possible. Teddy always bullied the other students and had his little group of friends that would stick up for him or defend him, sit near him to make mischievous plans for who to take on next. This time was different for Teddy for he now wanted to keep focused on James and what he could do to hurt him. Teddy just stared at the back of James head and drew pictures of James’ head in a notebook as a soccer ball and Teddies foot kicking it over a goal post.
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James looks up at the clock and sees it is now 2:44 and stairs down the last minute of the day. Watching the clock count down the seconds it hits 2:45 and the bell rings and all students make for the door as if there were only seconds to get out of the room before deadly gases were to hit. Teddy is waiting right outside of the door and sticks his foot out just in time to trip James. As he falls to the ground now scraping his right elbow once again, Teddy and his group laugh like mad and make a run for the bus and James once again picks him self up with tears in his eyes and heads toward the bathroom to wash off.
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Teddy and his parents were now sitting in the class room with his teacher Mr. Barnes discussing Teddies behavior and progress report as he already knew what it was already going to be said. Teddy had perked up when he herd Mr. Barnes tell his parents that all he needed was a little bit of discipline in his studies and his home life.
(CONTINUED)
Both of Teddies parents agreed as Mr. Barnes gave them a card with a few names and phone numbers of honor students that are willing to help out those who need help in their spare time. As they read a few names they had decided to go with one in particular which sent a cold chill down the spine of Teddy as you now see his face get almost pale and his mouth drop.
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Walking up to James’ huge house, Teddy gets a bad feeling in his gut and asks his mother if he can reschedule the appointment. His mother snaps back almost immediately telling in a stern voice telling him no! James’s father MIKE opens the door and walks Teddy down a long hallway to a designated room. Teddy was in total awe of James’ home by how clean and organized it was that he started to feel bad for the awful things he did to James.
Now waiting for his tutor to arrive, he sees various expensive pictures hanging on the walls, but one in particular catches his eyes. As he stares at it, he doesn’t see James standing there watching him. Teddy is so fixed on how happy James and his family looks, that it puzzles him. Feeling something stand over him, he turns and sees James looking at him. Teddy couldn’t speak and just stood there with his mouth hung open as he catches himself and asks James what he is looking at.
Teddy was in total awe of James’ home by how clean and organized it was that he felt bad for what mean things he did to James. James reassured Teddy that if he follows what program is before him, he will be able to pass his class and that he would do all in his power to help Teddy. Teddy just folds his arms over and gives him a look of disgust, but reluctantly agrees
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Once again Teddy and his parents are sitting in his classroom with Mr. Barnes as you see him thumbing through a few green reports and gets to the one he is looking for. Mr. Barnes looks up with a smile and doesn’t even say a word as he hands the crisp new paper to Teddy. He sees that his studying with James has paid off. He jumps up so quickly that his chair falls over and he runs outside to find James to thank him for all his hard work and effort but is nowhere to be found and sadness falls over his face.
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Night time panning down on a tree with a rickety old fort that at the bottom of the trunk and is half painted. We see comics, baseball equipment, pictures, and snacks strewn around as you hear laughter and see Teddy and James playing video games. Teddy stops the game and starts to get teary eyes as he looks down and very sincerely apologizes to James and then thanks him for all of his help all year. James accepts and tells Teddy that he has grown. Both go back to playing.
~~THE END~~
Angy Nylund
Soulbound
(fades in)
You see a few people standing around at a train station. Just behind them is a black man holding onto a bible, and preaching to the surrounding people, but they don’t seem to hear or recognize the mans existence. It isn’t apparent that the man really doesn’t exist until a business man walks past, going right through the him, but the man continues to preach, as if nothing happened. The only one that notices the man preaching is a young woman who stares at him briefly, before he himself disappears from sight.
Ashlyn has always been a gifted individual, who can see what was always not present to the common citizens eye, usually ghosts or spirits. She recently moved back to the city due to a family emergency, and is on her way home from meeting up with a friend, about a current spirit haunting her store. Her concentration is broken immediately, as a young well dressed man speaks. “So you can see them too?” Ashlyn doesn’t respond right away, instead she just glances him over as the train pulls up and she gets on followed by him. “My name is Levin.” He says as he takes a seat across the isle from Ashlyn.
Ashlyn recently moved back to the city in order to help out her family in dealing with the death. If it wasn’t for this family member dying, she would have never returned, because they mostly thought of her as a messenger from hell, because of her special of seeing the dead. Though to her biggest surprise this new guy she had never seen before caught her interest. His face was one where you know you know him from somewhere, but can’t really put a grasp as to how you know him.
Levin is focused directly on Ashlyn, as he tries to figure out as much as he can about her, while trying to convince her to go out on a date with him, with every question he fires at her, he continues to get nothing but negative responses of either “no, don’t care,” and even the occasional “don’t you ever shut the hell up?” As the train comes up to a stop, Ashlyn gets up and heads to an exit, as he writes his number down on a piece of paper and hands it to her. In retaliation of her annoyance with him, she rips it in half before stepping off the train. Levin smirks as he sits back in his seat, and mutters to himself “she’ll call.”
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Later that night Ashlyn gets a call from her friend that she saw earlier that day, Nova. As they talk Ashlyn talks about Levin, and how he had the nerve to give her his number. Nova first asks if he is hot or not, before insisting that Ashlyn needs a bigger social life, and insists that she needs to go out and see what this guy is all about. Especially after hearing her talk about how he looked familiar but yet she didn’t know who he was.
After hanging up with Nova Ashlyn calls up Levin, who immediately answers with “I knew you would call” Ashlyn doesn’t respond to his comment as they agree to go out to dinner the next night.
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Entering into a Italian restaurant, Levin is dressed up like a total gentleman, where Ashlyn wears a nice blouse and form fitting jeans. They talk about ghosts, and experiences, that they have had, but don’t get into real detail. Finally Ashlyn states that she can best explain it in a graveyard more than dinner, and stops the discussion, as they eat the rest of their dinner in silence.
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After Dinner they decide to walk through a near by graveyard where the head stones are like statues for most of the graves. They stop at one where the headstone broke off, and is now laying partially on the ground right next to it. Ashlyn runs her fingers over what’s left of the standing gravestone, before telling Levin why she believes graveyards can be peaceful, but how they can also be the most terrifying place in the world especially at night.
Levin takes a seat at a bench right next to a small lamp post, as Ashlyn walks up to him, he mentions about how amazing of a girl she is, and how he’s happy to see someone else out there that has the same gift as him. Though Ashlyn doesn’t seemed pleased with him and gets sick of hearing him talk, and takes a seat next to him. Before he can even say something else about her sitting next to him, she places her lips against his to shut him up.
(scene fades out then the next flashes in)
A young girl dressed in colonial period clothing is sitting at a grave sight as a young boy walks up and asks her why is she always sitting at this grave sight. She responds briefly about how it was her family, and all she had left, but before she can complete her sentence the shouts of several men and women fill the air, as they charge for the girl screaming out accusing words such as “witch” and “devil’s spawn” grabbing ahold of her and dragging her away.
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The girl is now tied to a post, as several men begin piling up wood, and dried brush at her feet before lighting it on fire. The girl screams and cries, as the flames grow bigger, before shouting out a curse at the little boy whose name is Levin.
(Fades out and back in)
Ashlyn breaks away from the kiss, her eyes are open wide, as she stares in shock at Levin breathing heavily. Levin also is breathing heavily, but more so from the kiss more than anything. Ashlyn rises up to her feet and begins to walk away. Levin quickly gets up after her, grabbing a hold of her arm, asking her where she is going.
Ashlyn quickly jerks her arm away and gives him a death glare, before bitterly saying “if I’m so amazing, why did you give me up? At least now you can see what you left behind.” Ashlyn then turns around and walks away, leaving Levin behind in the graveyard under the lamp post as he only watches her walk away in shock.
(fades out)
Earning My Eyes
Segment 1: Entering the World of Puppy Raising
Our main character looks on at a puppy raising meeting. The dogs and puppy raisers are all doing a training exercise, but our character can’t participate yet because she doesn’t have a dog. At the end of the meeting the group’s leader approaches her and asks if she still wants to join the group as a puppy raiser. She, of course, says yes.
Segment 2: A new family member
Our puppy raiser arrives at the kennels. Sounds of barking dogs echo through the shaded walkway where our puppy raiser is walking. The puppy raiser enters the Kennel Kitchen where she receives the tools that she will use with her new puppy. Then the kennel staff takes her to wait outside a doorway emerging a moment later with an adorable puppy. The kennel staff hands the puppy to our puppy raiser and the two meet for the first time. A voiceover tells how the puppy raiser felt to meet her companion for the first time (This interview portion to be shot much later in the raiser’s relationship with the puppy).
Our puppy raiser returns home with the puppy, who has various encounters with the new things in the household. The puppy experiences things for the first time and is unsure of how to react. The puppy raiser helps to guide the puppy through these experiences. An interview with the puppy raiser and household identifies any personality quirks or mischievous events that were discovered when the puppy first came home. These stories will be supported by home movies or digital pictures taken by the puppy raiser and her household.
Segment 3: A New Lifestyle
Our puppy is a bit older now. The Puppy raiser is able to take her to more public places and participate in some of the more advanced training exercises in puppy meetings. The pair will do normal everyday activities together such as going to the store or the library. They will also attend a training session together.
An interview with the puppy raiser reveals that raising the puppy wasn’t all easy. Although we see a well behaved dog now that wasn’t how the dog always reacted to things. The puppy raiser tells of a training difficulty that occurred and explains how she worked with the group and the puppy to overcome that difficulty. This interview will be supported by footage of training sessions at home and in the group where the problem was worked on.
Segment 4: Fun and Games
Our puppy raiser is at a club outing. This outing, unlike a training meeting, is meant to socialize the puppies while their raisers have fun together. Here we will see how our puppy raiser has become adopted into this new guide dog family, making friends with other puppy raisers and generally having a good time.
Segment 5: Spreading the Word
Our puppy raiser will either be speaking in a school environment or working some sort of booth. Part of a puppy raiser’s responsibilities is raising awareness in the community. One of the more active ways that puppy raisers do this is by running booths or speaking in schools. Interview with puppy raiser about what it is like educating people about guide dogs. Did the puppy raiser need to overcome some aspects such as a fear of public speaking? If so what is it that makes the puppy raiser braver with the dog?
Segment 6: Just Another Student
Our puppy raiser takes her dog to school with her. The students and teachers all treat the dog as a normal part of their lives. Interviews with the puppy raiser, students and teachers reveal how the dog was accepted into school life. They may reveal funny stories about early interactions and their personal feelings about the dog.
Segment 7: Part of the Household
Our puppy is now grown up. The odd quirks and mishaps experienced as a puppy are a thing of the past and the dog has become an everyday part of the family life. Various household members show their responsibilities in training the dog, such as feeding and relieving the dog. Maybe show the dog playing in the yard with the puppy raiser. Interviews with the various household members will reveal their sentiments on the dog, their favorite memories and how they have played a role in the dog’s life. Most importantly this is where the puppy raiser will be asked about her feelings on the upcoming return date.
Segment 8: Sacrifice
Our Puppy raiser has received notice that it is time to return the dog to San Rafael for final training. The community reacts in various ways to say goodbye to the dog. Our puppy raiser takes the dog for one last car ride together and they arrive at the puppy kennels. Where their story together started is ironically the same place where their story together will end. As she gives her dog up to the same people who first handed it to her we see that our journey has come full circle. An interview with the puppy raiser tells us just how hard it was to give away the dog that was such a major part of her life.
Segment 9: Moving On
If the puppy raiser decides to raise another puppy this portion will show the introduction of a new puppy and how the household chose to continue raising puppies. If the puppy raiser decides not to raise another puppy this segment will show how the puppy raiser has gone back to normal life, but has changed from her puppy raising experience.
Segment 10:
If the puppy ends up completing training all the way to graduation then this segment will be used to show the graduation ceremony. If the puppy does not graduate then the story will end at segment 9.
Our puppy raiser has been contacted and informed that their puppy is graduating. She travels to San Rafael in order to officially present the dog to its new recipient. An interview reveals her feelings towards meeting the person who will be receiving her dog. The puppy raiser and the blind person meet or the first time she sees what a strong bond the person has with her dog. She takes the dog’s leash into her hands one final time as her raiser and walks across the stage to meet the dog’s new owner. As she hands over the leash we will hear a voiceover of her saying how it felt to know what a big difference she made in someone’s life. Our puppy raiser returns home with a new sense of herself and the world around her. Through her experiences and sacrifice she truly did earn her own eyes while giving someone else their own pair.
J.C. Rodriguez
08/26/08
The Adventures of Jake and Pete
(Fades in)
Two young boys around the ages of 12 are playing basketball outside in a driveway. Jake who has short blonde hair and quite skinny is struggling to get the ball away from Pete who is an inch taller than Jake and is more heavy set with red curly hair. Holding Jakes head with his right arm straight out, he makes a shot with his other arm and misses. Jake then decides to take a break and sit on the curb of his house, a two story white suburban home. Pete sits right next to him hyperventilating a little from the game and asks his friend what else they can do for fun. Jake thinks for a minute then suggests to go play tetherball at the school. Pete agrees and throws the basketball over Jakes fence to land in the back yard and the two friends start walking.
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It’s mid-day and the summer sun is bright in the sky but a cool breeze hits the tetherball chains against the poles and children play on a playground in the grass area. Jake and Pete arrive at a tetherball court and start to play. One makes fun of the other as they play teasing with jokes about their looks. Suddenly they hear scream coming from the playground, a little girls’ scream, so they both decide to investigate. As they reach the playground they see the little girl crying and ask what is wrong. The little girl tells them that one of the other children told her a story about the Ashmore House down the street from the school. Curious to know the story they ask the children about the house and where they heard about it. A little boy then says that their teachers told them never to go into the abandoned house of Ashmore or they will pay the consequences. Filled with curiosity of why grade school teachers would make up a story like that to these children Pete pulls Jake away and says we got to check out that Ashmore house! Jake then agrees and announces to the kids that they will find out the truth for them and come back with the confirmation. The kids cheer for their heroes Jake and Pete as the two friends walk off valiantly.
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As they walk closer to the house, they feel an eerie sensation running through their bodies, more excitement than anything to them since they are finally going on an adventure. Approaching the yard Jake begins to set the drama for their adventure “The Adventures of Jake and Pete, in today’s episode Jake and Pete will they discover the secret behind the Ashmore House! What unholy situation will they wind up in? Stay tuned to find out!” Smiles run across their faces as they approach the porch and look up at the 2nd story bedroom. The Ashmore house has an eerie look to it, worn and broken down. The shutters slamming noisily from the breeze and the smell of musty dead wood fills the porch air. In front of the door, Jake and Pete take one look at each other and make a large gulp noise inside their throats as if to set the drama for a scene. Jake turns the door knob and opens the door slowly. The door creaks noisily and seems to jam half way from the rug on the floor. Still standing on the porch they look around the dark and half burnt like living room, hearing the echoing sounds of children’s laughter and the sound of an old woman’s cries as they take a step inside.
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They look around the room, furniture torn and destroyed. Looking around they see that the walls look like they’re about to crumble with a touch. Jake and Pete get fascinated by the television which looks like it’s been there since the seventies, a small macro looking thing with a crappy coat hanger for an antenna. As they explore some more, they wind up in the kitchen where Pete gets a feeling of hunger and opens the refrigerator door. Looking inside the fridge he sees food that has rotted out, and out-dated milk that sent off more of a stench than the food itself did. This gives Pete a sick feeling and he can feel his stomach turning. He closes the fridge with a disgusted look on his face and turns to Jake. Jake is about to say something when they hear a noise out in the living room.
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In the living room, they hear the noise again, this time it’s coming from upstairs. Looking up at the stairs from the living room floor they both stand quietly waiting to hear the sound again. Then the sound of children’s laughter echoes once again with the old woman’s cries from the walls of the house, this time they realize that the origin of the laughter seems to come from a room upstairs and feeling the urge of curiosity they begin to walk up the stairs. Each step creaking out loud as they walk up the stairs, the smell of old paint and dust bouncing off the stairs floorboards. All of a sudden, Pete puts his hand on Jakes shoulder and whispers that maybe they shouldn’t be doing this. Jake calls him a baby and keeps walking. They are at the very last step when they both hear a little girl’s scream. Then another little girl’s scream this time different from the other, the screams echoing around them along with the shrieks of an old crying woman.
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All of a sudden Jake and Pete back up against a wall as the windows blast open and a huge gust of wind pushes them back more. The girl’s screams combining with the wind and little boy’s laughter following. Jake and Pete wrap their arms around one another and begin to scream and shout for their lives as the wind begin to rock the house and stairs. Shrieks of fright from the two adventurers ring out as a door of the upstairs hallway open. They close their eyes and plead for forgiveness and that they shouldn’t be there when suddenly the wind stops blowing hard and the sound of kids laughing calms the house. Jake opens his eyes and looks to see all the children from the playground right in front of him laughing at his current situation. Tapping Pete on the back to open his eyes and to quit whispering his pleas of surrender, Pete sees the kids in front of him finally. Confused first then they realize they have been played by the children.
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The children tell them that the whole thing was just a set up to frighten them and that they are definitely the easiest prey they could think of to scare. Still confident, Jake gets up and says he wasn’t scared at all, he knew it was them the whole time. One of the little girls tells him not to lie, that she had seen the whole thing through a peep hole on the wall. Jake then realizes that she was right so he sits back down and then asks how they made the whole thing happen like they did. The little girl tells them that they were all in the rooms screaming and laughing and that the walls made it so it would echo. Pete then asks how they made the wind blow into the house so violently and who had made the cries and shrieks of an old lady. The children look at each other with confusion and say that they had nothing to do with any wind or old ladies cries as they all hear the sound.
Coming from behind the children, the cries and shrieks of the old woman fill the house as the children turn around and scream, Jack and Pete quickly get up to see a ghostly figure of an old wrinkly woman floating towards them. Jake, Pete and the children all scream and start to scramble down the stairs running out of the house and towards the playground. While running, Jake yells to Pete “Let’s never do that again!”
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Back at the Ashmore house, one of the doors of the upstairs hallway opens revealing a group of nerdy adults laughing. An old wrinkly woman then stops the then says that maybe they shouldn’t have scared the children out as much as they did. Laughing again, the woman tells the others, “let’s get this teachers meeting started shall we?”
THE END
Gringolandia
Fade In with ambient music and scenes of sun drenched beaches with palm trees blowing in the wind and turquoise blue water in the distance.
More and more ex-patriots from North America are moving to Mexico. These ex-patriots find themselves moving to beautiful coastal areas that are high in tourism. Typically the ex-pats have visited these tranquil places during vacations and have been attracted to stay. The ex-patriots move there for many reasons. One of these reasons is to enjoy financial independence (there dollar can go a lot further than in their home country of the United States or Canada).Mexico is also regionally close to their home country which makes it easy to visit friends and family left behind. The climate of the areas in Mexico that the ex-pats move to is considered ideal by some. Other reasons include the beauty of the area and the already establish ex-pat communities that make them feel secure. These growing communities of Anglo ex-pats have been coined Gringolandia.
Conflicts arise between ex-pats and locals which creates tension. An example of a problem is communication. Many ex- pats living in Mexico do not speak Spanish or learn it even though they have been living there for many years. Because of the communities of ex-pats, there is really no great urgency by them to want to learn Spanish. Ex-pats that do befriend locals usually end up dealing with bilingual Mexicans making life easier for the ex-pats.
Another problem is the ownership of land. Not all land can be owned by foreigners. Even in the restricted zones where foreigners can buy land, the deed to the land must be held in trust by a bank. Every 50 years the trust must be renewed. The land not in a restricted zone that can not be owned by a foreigner is call Ejido land. Many ex-pats try to get around this law by placing the title to the Ejido land in the name of a trusted friend or relative who is Mexican, relying on the hope that when, or if, the land is regularized, ownership can be converted. There are cases where land has been confiscated from ex-pats with force by corrupt officials.
In concluding ex-pats are not limited to coming from North America they are also coming in from Europe and elsewhere to what seems to be paradise, but there is no place in the world that is absolutely trouble free. Anywhere you go there are bound to be some controversies.
Manuel Velazquez
8-28-08
HW Week 7
FUTURE SPIDER
A young man, tall and lanky, is just waking up. His name is James. While getting out of his bed he shows his clumsiness by hitting his foot on the end of the bed and hobbling out. He hops to the bathroom where he takes out his retainer and reaches for his toothbrush. He looks down in horror to a spider crawling out of his drain. James starts to breathe heavily panics. He then witnesses something he did not expect, the spider speaks to him. He asks him to help him out of the sink. James’s terror overwhelms him and he faints.
James wakes up twenty minutes later in a haze. He looks over to see the spider sitting on a chair next to him. He starts to panic again but the spider assures him he is not going to hurt him. Curious as to how the spider can talk and interact with him, James begins to ask a lot of questions but is quickly interrupted by the spider slapping him. He says his name is Frank and that he comes from the not so distant future. He asks James what the date is and is frustrated when he hears the answer. He claims he should’ve gone back further and warns James that the country is in danger. He promises James he will explain everything but first they needed to get to a car fast. James reluctantly agrees.
James runs out of his house with Frank on his finger, who is urging him to run faster. They get into James’s car and take off. Frank explains that they needed to get to Washington DC and again stresses that it is very important. We now see a montage of Frank and James on the road together, taking pictures and enjoying the scenery. At the end of the montage Frank is delivering the climax of a story he is telling James and they start to laugh together. After all the fun and games Frank decides to tell James his mission. He tells James that the country will be destroyed in a few weeks and begins to explain how.
We are now seeing the future and outside of the white house there is a large gathering of media. A white house representative steps up to a podium and explains that the president had been killed. He then announces that they found the killer, and holds up a spider. Frank’s voice narrates what happens next. The extermination of all spiders is ordered. We see men in suits in a park spraying pesticide, people in caves searching out spiders, people in their homes doing the same. Frank explains that spiders became extinct. After this we see a news report about a middle eastern country claiming that they are being overrun by flies. They demand that the U.S. send all of their spiders to solve this problem, but there are none to send. We then see a shot of a bomb being set off. We are now back in the car and James is shocked. Frank explains that they must find this assassin spider and stop him from killing the president. James agrees and gets out of the car.
While walking down the streets of Washington James asks where their next destination is. Frank tells him it is the Lincoln memorial, James grabs Frank and bolts off. They reach the memorial and take a seat. James turns to Frank and asks him why they are there. Frank explains that it was here where he planned the murder of the president. James is taken back and asks why. Frank brushes him off and claims that the reason is very political, he knows James is too stupid to understand. He then tells James that he must kill him. James refuses to kill Frank and begins to rant. He asks why he was given this responsibility, why was the fate of the country put in his hands. Frank quickly tells him that he ended up in his sink randomly and that he is no special hero. James then sits down from his rant and realizes what he must do, but he cant pull himself to do it. Frank explains that he realizes what he did was wrong and that he must now die for his country. James then stands up and with a yell stomps on Frank. He begins to walk away he hears Frank groan. He yells at James for being too much of an imbecile to simply kill him, now he is laying half squished on the pavement. James lets out another yell and repeatedly stomps on Frank, thus saving his country.
James is now driving home saddened that he had to kill his little friend. While on the road something catches his eye and he stops. We see that he is at a pet store. He walks in and asks the lady at the counter if they have any pet spiders.
Treatment
For the
Coffee Shop
By: William Purcell
Logline: Two friends meet at a local coffee shop to play catch up on there life since the last time they saw each other.
Fade in:
Of a coffee shop
Fade out: seven years earlier
Kids playing in the front yard of a big house
Two friends in high school was the last time they saw each other. It has been over seven years and one friend is working for a big law firm in New York City and the other friend live in the town they grew up in. They have know each other since they where kids, at least five years old. The did ever thing together, they where best friends. In Jr. high one friend named; Dave was in a fight and the other friend named; Luke was there to help him, after that there friendship grew stronger. Seven years later they meet at a coffee shop in there home town and they catch up on there life.
Close up:
on the coffee sitting on the table
Zoom out:
You see two young guys sitting at a table
You hear in the background the sound of coffee being made. You also hear people talking
They talk for two hours and You see them walk out of the coffee shop and go there in different ways.
The End
Thirty Mile Zone
It a scene we are all familiar with, pop sensation Britney Spears walking to her car surrounded by groups of men and women holding large cameras toward her face. Suddenly, lights flash and one by one, they all begin to shout her name “Britney!” While they all hope for that one perfect photograph. The best photographs are the one of her falling while holding her child or being carried off on a gurney and being placed into an ambulance. To most people this would seem horrendous but for the professional Paparazzi, it’s another day at the office. Maybe you’ve seen a video or a silent photograph that with one frame can say so much to the public without having an actual narrative. In either case, most of us will agree that we have held an opinion of strangers based off a single photograph taken by the most notorious group in Hollywood, the Paparazzi.
The term Paparazzi, also known as Paparazzo, came from the surname of photographers in the Italian film by Federico Fellini’s named La Dolce Vita (1959). The characters reminded him of a “buzzing insect, hovering, darting and stinging.” Fellini’s inspiration was Tazio Secchiaroli, a street photographer infamous for catching Egyptian King Forouk who turned a table over in a restaurant in rage. Then, later that night he took a photo of actor Anthony Steele in an argument with actress Anita Ekberg. These photos started a trend in Europe. Today, it s a career not many know how to get into but many freelance photographers will take candid pictures of celebrities in an attempt to sell them for publication. Since society’s curiosity of pop culture became an obsession, these photographers tirelessly wait for that one private moment to be caught so they can sell to the highest bidder for the world to see.
In the documentary Thirty Mile Zone, project director Lindsey Ahrendt fervidly turns the tables while putting the camera on the Paparazzi. The use of documentary filmmaking will unabashedly show the tough as nails, ruthless greed that pushes each photographer past their ethical boundaries. Paparazzi photographers are shown through their day and interviews conversations held with one another are recorded as they team up and go head to head to achieve the winning photograph. Sometimes, they will even put themselves and others in danger.
Although most of us are familiar with their celebrity subjects and have read their stories of struggle, heartbreak and vanity, we rarely get a glimpse into the lives of the Paparazzi. These are individuals who will spend days and nights “hunting” celebrities at their favorite hangouts or family functions. This is all happening at a time in society where ethics are challenged. Thirty Mile Zone can be considered a psychological study to try and understand what would drive a person to stalk another person for profit?
It’s proven by the amount of magazines sold to the public, reality shows and the amount of celebrity blogs that have appeared on the internet that we as a culture are fascinated the famed human psyche. So, why someone would make their life out of invading someone else’s life? In a twist, Thirty Mile Zone captures celebrities actually enjoying the attention from the so-called intrusion of the Paparazzi. Sometimes, certain celebrities call on the Paparazzi to inform them of their location and schedules. At the end of the day, it is the press that fuels the fames of their careers.
We ask if these photographers have families and relationships outside the one they have created with their celebrity muse. Then, we follow the callous Paparazzi through to the end of their day when they return home to their loved ones and find out if it’s all just a game or a way of life. Sometimes, a thing that seems so crude and obnoxious becomes a story of survival. To stay alive the question would be would a person would sell their soul for the right price? As we see in this film, in Hollywood, anything goes.
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Teri is a distraught security guard who works for a bank. He’s been out of the Special Forces now for nearly eight months and is waiting to receive a large sum of severance money from the government. Every day that sluggishly moves by him is another that he feels stagnant in his current life of boredom.
Teri’s friend bob is another former military guy who invites Teri over for football games and cards night with the other guys. Many of them express similar stories about how they had holds on their money when they got out too. And even though things are tight he just needs to keep hanging on. Bob has a job in the local sheriff’s department that he got through another military friend, in fact almost all of the members of the sheriff’s department happen to be former military as well.
As the pressure seems to stack up on Teri, bob proposes that Teri go take a few days off at his father’s cabin alone. Teri agrees and goes up to the hills to enjoy himself and relax, as Teri comes back he find his house being raided by the police and finds out that he is a suspect in a bank robbery at the bank that he worked at. Come to find that his friend bob had set him up to take the fall for the robbery, and all while him and his former military police officers reap the benefits. Now Teri needs to find a way to prove his innocence somehow and find a way to arrest half of the sheriff’s department for bank robbery at the same time.
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