Documentary- Racquet Club

Racquet Club from Sophie Queisi on Vimeo.

Narrative Script/Treatment

Home Sweet Home

Genre: Horror/fear

Black screen, sound of alarm clock going off

Quick shot of hand hitting alarm clock to turn it off

Voice over while the hand leaves frame, music starts, entry credits start.

Scene 1

-Sister wakes up

-Goes to kitchen

-Gets water and sees note from mom (out for the weekend)

-Brother comes downstairs and spooks her

-She gets frustrated, pushes him, and walks up stairs to start unpacking

Scene 2

-Starts unpacking box

-Hears noise from across the room

-Goes to check it out

-Gets scratch on side/stomach

-Brother comes up to room, sister quickly covers the cut

-Brother asks what she’s doing, sister says nothing, they go and start unpacking again

-Brother makes small talk, sister is uninterested, obviously has some type of negative emotions going on inside her

-Brother asks why she’s acting funny, sister says nothing, leaves.

Scene 3

-Cuts to nighttime

-Sister is getting ready for bed

-As she climbs into the bed she notices bruising all over legs

-She goes into bed and half falls asleep when she hears noises from her room

-She gets spooked and gets out of bed to see what it is

-She sees a shadow and starts yelling at it to leave before she calls the police or gets her brother, the shadow doesn’t move or do anything

-She is terrified and frozen in fear

-Deep laughter, demonic sounds comes from the shadow

-It moves towards her and reaches arm out and touches her chest

-She gasps and falls to the floor/passes out

-Split second of black screen

Scene 4

-Cuts to sister waking up unfazed and getting off ground, obviously possessed now

-Zoom into face to reveal sinister smile

-Walks out of room and down the hall to brother room

-Stands by bed and just stairs at brother

-Brother wakes up and gets freaked out by sister just standing there

-Brother asks why she’s in his room, sister wont reply

-Brother keeps asking if she’s okay, she wont reply

-Brother notices her sickly pale face and veins popping from her skin, and asks what’s wrong, terrified.

-Sister grabs him by shoulders or feet and pulls him out of bed

-Drags brother down the stairs, brother is freaking out and yelling at her

-She drags him all the way to the backyard and strangles him to death

-Demon comes out of her body after that, she falls to the ground and dies as well, as the demon returns to the house

Documentary Poster

Documentary Subject

 
Outline:

This interview could be used for a documentary describing childhood illnesses and over coming such illness; molding into a more powerful person. Documentaries like this could be based off just a scientific side of certain illnesses, with the interview being a snippet into the actual child going through it themselves, or just about how powerful children are in general, regardless of what they are going through (since usually people assume children are weak and fragile little things). Or, going even deeper into the meaning behind the documentary, and how useful the interview really could be, the documentary could be solely on cancer and how it effects lives, of all ages, and this just being an incite on how it affects children. Not to mention a documentary about the actual hospital it self that houses cancer patients and how that hospital functions.

Bio & Questions:

Omar Queisi is a fourteen year old sophomore in high school. He seems normal on the outside, going to school, socializing, and being his over all goofy, fun loving self, but not everything was sunshine and rainbows for Omar. When he was 12 years old he was diagnosed with a form of bone cancer that changed his life completely. For about a year and a half he was in and out of the hospital under going chemo therapy. He is officially cancer free back to school, back at home, living a "normal" life. He goes about his weeks helping other bone cancer patients (all children) and pushing them to move forward, while still pushing himself to move forward as well. 

1. How did you find out about your illness? What warning signs did you and your family see/feel?

2. How was the overall effects of chemotherapy? How many did you have to take? How long did each session last? How did it make you feel entirely? 

3. You were so young when you were diagnosed, you still are, what were the overall feelings you had during that time? Did you feel like your life was going to change forever or did you plan on staying tough and attempting at a normal childhood? Was it hard to maintain that "normal" childhood you used to have for the most part?

4. Was it tough to stay positive? Did staying positive feel like it helped you during the process?

5. What crazy science/ medical terms have you learned from all of this?

6. Did any other past cancer patients mentor you through your illness? How so?

7.  How do you feel now after being completely cancer free? Do you still go in for check ups? Is it awkward (seeing nurses/doctors/the rooms/ the atmosphere in general)? 

8. How did your illness mold you into the person you are today? Do you feel stronger?

9. I've heard you tell your fellow classmates that you got the scar on your leg from fighting off a shark, is that true? What is the craziest thing you've said about your surgery scar? Is it a painful memory or is it something you love and feel is apart of you emotionally (positively)?

10. What do you tell over cancer patients? How has it helped them?

Phrases & Script

5 Phrases:

-"You are everywhere right now, calm down."

-"She is literal human garbage." 

-"Is that pizza or Italian vomit?"

-"We're all cubists, trying to see things from every perspective."

-"It was being annoyingly philosophical."

Script:

 

>Two female friends, one valley girl and one scholar, walk into an art gallery and ponder over a few of the hanging pieces but accidently bump into there arch nemeses.

Barbie- skipping into gallery “Dang this place looks fancy!”

Alexandria- pushes Barbie “Hush. You’re being really loud. Act like you actually care.”

Barbie- “Hey, I do care. I love art. I draw like all the time in class.”

both are walking toward an abstract painting near the left side of the gallery walls

Barbie- “Girl! Look at this thing! This is totally like something you’d make. It literally looks like food.” walks closer to painting, reaches hand to touch it

Alexandria- “Stop!” swats Barbie’s hand

Barbie- “Ouch!” pulls hand away

Alexandria- “You are everywhere right now, calm down.”

Barbie- “This painting literally looks like food. Al, Is that pizza or Italian vomit?” giggling and skips away to another painting

Alexandria- follows Barbie “You’re being really annoying, I shouldn’t have brought you here. If you can calm down for another 10 minutes I will take you to actually get pizza afterwards, okay?”

Barbie- “Yeah whatever.”

Both staring at painting, Alexandria is smiling and analyzing the piece visually, Barbie seems puzzled

Alexandria- “Isn’t cubism amazing?”

Barbie- “What the heck is a cubism? Is that an emotion?”

Alexandria- “Are you kidding me right now? This is cubism. It’s when a piece of art tries to depict something from different perspectives. From every perspective.”

Barbie- still puzzled “Okay?”

Alexandria- annoyed “You know, we’re all cubists, trying to see things from every perspective.”

Barbie- “You’re being annoyingly philosophical.” skips off to next painting

Alexandria- follows and sighs, “Do you even know what the word philosophical means?”

(BEAT, zoom in, pan up) Big towering women walks into gallery and goes directly to the original painting Barbie and Alexandria were looking at  

Barbie- (BEAT) turns head and sees the women, and loudly says “Shit!”

Alexandria- “Lower your voice. What’s wrong?” turns head and sees women as well “Ugh. Bertha. What is she doing here.”

Barbie- turns and faces Alexandria, says is a frightened voice “Man, we need to leave, like now.”

Alexandria- “Why? We can just ignore her. She is literal human garbage.”

Barbie- (BEAT) zooms in on Barbie's face “I totally may have been talking to her man and like I totally think she’s like looking for me.”

Alexandria-  loud and angrily “Are you kidding me?”

Barbie- “No like really..”

(BEAT, close up of Berthas feet stomping/walking, close up of Bertha cracking her knuckles) Bertha sneaks up on the girls and smirks, towering above them

Bertha- “Ay, look who we have here, ya’ll think it’s cool to just mess around with my man yeah? Hiding away in some gallery? Ya’ll ain’t smooth. Trying to act smart and shit.”

Close up on Barbie grabbing Alexandria’s hand and smiles and waves up at Bertha

Barbie- “LOL bye!”

(BEAT, fade out to white, quick zoom out) Both girls run out of galler

>END SCENE

Music Video Style Book

Music Video Location Photos and Scout Survey

 

Project Name: Sunshine 

 Completed by: ~October 18^th, 2015

 Scout Date & Time:

September 27^th, 2015 4:00pm-10:00pm

Location address:

Indiana University campus, Robert C. Beutter Riverfront park, bedroom, dinning room, and front door of any house.

Day and time of shoot:

Afternoon, bright sunlight, around 2:30pm-6:30pm. 11^th and 17th of October  (Indiana University campus, Robert C. Beutter Riverfront park, bedroom, dinning room)

Evening, dark, zero sunlight, around 8:00pm~. 24^th of October (front door of house).

Location description (interior/ exterior):

University campus: Bright red bridge with apex, over a calm river. Benches around a fountain that is not turned on/ benches underneath a green canopy of trees.

Robert C. Beutter Riverfront park: Bright red bridge, no apex, over a calm river. Circular sitting area with large boulders (two or three in the middle of the area and many other boulders surrounding the entire circle). Small waterfall near the entrance of the park, with a large boulder at the end of the waterfall, placed in the middle of  the river. Entire area has cleanly cut, bright green grass, not many trees or animals, and is calm with not many people or sounds.

Bedroom: Medium sized and slightly messy. Bed is well made, and nothing is on the foor except for a few bits of dirty laundry scattered randomly. Bed is solid dark color. Everything is monochromatic for the most part.

Dinning room: Large and slightly fancy. Lacey/ silky table clothe with many lit candles on the table. A single flower in the middle of the table. Also fairly monochromatic.

Front door of house: Dark area, very normal looking.  A couple bushes and shrubs around door, and an outdoor light right at the entrance of the house. Large front lawn, clean cut, and bright green.

Describe the scene and action. How many people are on camera?

Indiana University campus: 1^st shot-Main subjects walking toward one another from opposite ends of the bridge. Can only see one subject at a time. Subjects bump into one another near the apex and female subject drops items from her hands. Now the camera shows both subjects at the same time. Camera zooms into both subjects hands as they meet and into their faces as they look at one another. One two people are on camera at this point. 2^nd shot- Main subjects walking toward one another from opposite ends of the bridge. Can only see one subject at a time. Subjects bump into one another near apex, but this time instead of the male subject reaching down with the female subject to grab her fallen items, two strangely dressed men run up and sabotage entire meeting. 4 total people are in frame during scene.

Robert C. Beutter Riverfront park: 1^st shot- Main subjects walking toward one another from opposite ends of the bridge. Can only see one subject at a time. Subjects bump into one another near the apex and female subject drops items from her hands. Now the camera shows both subjects at the same time. Camera zooms into both subjects hands as they meet and into their faces as they look at one another. Only two people are on camera at this point. 2^nd shot- Main subjects walking toward one another from opposite ends of the bridge. Can only see one subject at a time. Subjects bump into one another near apex, but this time instead of the male subject reaching down with the female subject to grab her fallen items, two strangely dressed men run up and sabotage entire meeting. Four total people are in frame. 3^rd shot- couple sitting on rock in the middle of river, near waterfall. Both subjects are cuddling, talking, giggling, and having a great time. Two total people are in frame. 4^th shot- couple sitting on rock in the middle of the river, near waterfall, both subjects are cuddling, talking, giggling, and having a great time. Same two strange men come and sabotage the scene, pushing either one of the subjects into the river, ruining there day. Four total people are in frame. 5^th shot- Two main subjects are walking/sitting in the circular area at the park. Talking and having a good time. Two people are in frame.

Bedroom: 1^st shot- Main subjects are acting slightly romantic near bedroom entrance/ on bed. Two people are in frame. 2^nd shot- Main subjects are acting slightly romantic near bedroom entrance/ on bed. Two strange men come and sabotage the scene. Four people total in frame.

Dinning Room: 1^st shot- Two main subjects are having dinner, chating, giggling. Two total people in frame. 2^nd shot- Two main subjects are having dinner, then same two men sabotage entire scene. Four total people in frame.

How much space is needed?

For all scenes, there is not a specific amount of space needed. All outdoor scenes will be filmed in open spaces. All indoor scenes (bedroom and dinning room), are slightly less open.

Will the action be shot from one or multiple locations?

The meeting scene will be shot in two different locations for editing purposes. Every location chosen for filming has action shots, most of which has two different spins on the action-taking place.

Is there off-screen space available?

Yes

What are the light levels and sources of light? How does this impact your scene?

All outdoor shots, filmed in the day time, will use mostly natural lighting, while the indoor shots (bedroom and dinning room), have artificial lighting. Using certain filters on the indoor artificial light to cool down or warm up the entire tone of the area will be used in order to give all shots a single color scheme. The nighttime shot will use complete artificial lighting, but since it is supposed to be taken at night, the color and amount of light, how it looks, is not a big deal. As long as the area can be seen and the subjects are visible, that is all that matters.

Are you recording sound? Are there any issues to be aware of?

No

Is there any special equipment needed?

Filters for artificial lighting.

Are there any concerns that need to be addressed about shooting at this location?

No

Other notes:

None

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FEAR from Sophie Queisi on Vimeo.

Emotion Photos- FEAR

Music Video Analysis

Karma Police by Radiohead, probably one of my favorite songs of all time. The song itself represents insanity, which is depicted in the video (Thom Yorke hunting down another man). The video consists of a simple, linear, story line. The video is a combination of performative and narrative, since the story is narrating a situation of increased insanity, while depicting it without background knowledge of the song.
Line, movement, color, rhythm and space all stay constant throughout the entire video. The camera is consistently panning horizontally in a constant open/deep space. The color palette of the video is very dark and earthy, as well. The rhythm of the video is also very steady within the entire frame of the music video (moderate). The only time any of the visual elements change is near the very end of the video, as the man is finally hunted down. The space changes from flat to deep and the movement and rhythm goes from moderate to slightly faster.
The key moments in the video are when we are introduced to Thom Yorke in the car (we know who is hunting the man down), and another key moment is finally when the man in the video is "caught". Both key moments are filmed closer to there faces/bodies, and in a slower motion, to emphasize that these are the two main characters in the video. The very last key moment is when the man who was being hunted down sets the car on fire. This is filmed at a quicker pace and pans the entire car to show the intensity of the fire.
The music video has a lot of static camera movement. This is to emphasize the motion of the car, the speed of the man running, and the intensity between the fear of the man running and the relaxed composure Thom Yorke has as he is "driving" toward the man, without directly moving the camera all around. The camera pans and gives off the illusion of you being the one in the car driving, looking out into the world. The two characters are constantly in motion, so the camera is constantly in a static motion.

Bio

Art is what I live for.
I love to create all forms of art, I love to consume art, and I love to learn about art. By art, I literally mean everything under that large open umbrella. I've been painting since I could hold a brush, and I've been making music since I could press the keys on a piano. Creating art is my outlet in life.
I plan on finishing college and graduating with a degree in Graphic Design. After that, my next step is to work as a Graphic Designer. Of course that's the "plan" but if I was able to pursue music professionally, there is not a doubt in my mind that I would. I think my biggest goal right now is just to get out of this cornfield ridden place called Indiana.
When it comes down to photography and film, I may not be that experienced in the film lifestyle, but I sure do take a lot of crazy photography and watch way too many movies. No questions about it, Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time. That being said, I'm a huge Quentin Tarantino fan.
I'm a super motivated person. Whatever it is that I put my mind to, I always go after it until I get it done. I also always try to think outside of the box when it comes to my creative outlets.What's so fun about "normal" art anyway?
But why do I enjoy making media? I find it so wonderful that through all forms of art people can convey all different messages and create these beautiful stories and concepts without completely spelling it out for the viewers/ listeners.