Saturday, January 15, 2011

Black History Assembly 3 - The Movie

Lets get Started.

There are some comments at the end of the John Brown blog getting the planning started for our movie.

we will start on Monday by creating a timeline of our story/movie.

if you have comments or ideas then start now!

75 comments:

  1. we could sort of tranform Mr.Cheney's storage room into the house of a slave and use the library as the auctio place because it has a stage and the buyers could sit at the tables

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  2. in mr cheney rememberance day movie i liked the part of how they show a part of the movie then they show the title at the begining. that part can be where we show the auction.

    great idea rukiye the storage room can be used for many things in the movie

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  3. Also we could use the stage as for the scene were the slaves run away we could make props and decorate the stage to look like the wilderness and we could use the wanted posters by hanging some outside the school and the post cards at the end as letters from the freed slaves to the person that rescued them

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  4. What we could do is start of the movie by having an old lady relating the story to a circle of listeners like on a park bench because its black history month. Then as she is speaking the scenes from the movie can start to appear and at times she can be narrating and at others we can voice the actors thoughts. And at times like when the slaves are running away we can shift from colour to black and white like in King.

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  5. ya thtas a good idea i like how that coould work and a bunch of kids listening to the story then in the middle of the story one of em could ask a question then she could be like and then the story contiunes at the end she would be like she has to catch her train then leave.she can come visit our school to tell the storie to the kids

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  6. flash backs is great

    differnet voice overs (inner thoughts)

    we will shoot in the wilderness!!!

    boat scene...with slaves disgusting crammed into ships...check out Amistad!!!

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  7. We could have a scene where a slave is snacthed up by traders on a walk to work along the water in this case the creek.

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  8. Id like to be an actor.
    And I can help out with the script writing as well.

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  9. if we shoot by the park i noe a good place were we can go to shoot the slaves hiding but i might be hard to find and might not be safe cuz of all the snow and ice from the river

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  10. what we can do is probably transform the class into a slave oxtion hall, so some people in the class are slave buyers and they are trying to buy the slaves.

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  11. I would like to be an actor aswell!!

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  12. And we can have a MONTAGE! For example when the slaves are vying for their freedom and their escape set to the rocky track Gonna fly now.

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  13. i ageee with zac an actress and some one who can help writh the script

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  14. sorry people....i spelled auction wrong!!

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  15. Montage is very neat...tough to shoot cause it needs so much time and different scenes for just seconds of film.

    Rocky Montage's are classic. El Presidente did you watch some Rocky movies??? new pic and and ideas

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  16. We can also have someone be a white man who comes from canada and when he sees the stark realization of what slavery is in the south is utterly shocked. We have could have this scene overlapped with the song tommorow by slaif keita like in this scene of the movie ali http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7zucBbquh8

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  17. @Mr cheney yeah i just finished wacthing Rocky 3.

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  18. i agree good idea but it will take alot of work and where would we shoot it?good idea El Presidente we could ues the creekit would wrk good in the movie

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  19. @ my previous post its at like 2:13 where the song im talking about starts.

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  20. And we can also have a fictional charcter who rises the slaves to freedom someone who got his inspiration from ( insert real world person here) harriet tubman. Somone who was an escaped slave that came to a new town say in texas or somewhere like that and starts a revolt of the slaves there.

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  21. It seems to me that the sixties was a big year in history.JFK, Ali, Malcom X, MLK Jr.

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  22. i think we should shoot most of the film on the stage with the black curtains because like the rememberance movie you guys used as multiple sets for different seines and i think we could really use that to our ad. espeshally with the cold snow outside

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  23. @ el pres.

    thats true kennedy assassination 1963
    malcom X assassination 1965
    winston churchill Dies 1965
    pretty much all of 1965 of the biggining of 1965 show events of ML king leading marches of attempts with civil right leaders from selma AB to the cap. Montgomery witch was called bloody sunday.

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  24. @ M cheney thats true for a montage to happen we would probably have to have to spend double the time to create tiny seans which would take up like a minute lets not forget its an amateur film not some hollywood blockbuster lets try to keep it good and simple.

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  25. i am going to da a little bit of everything the writing, camera, seane setup ,directing,special affects,editing,finally!!!!!!!!!! going to be living the dream.

    i could play JFK since i am the only white boy in the class.Mr Cheney could play it but he doent have enough hair :P

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  26. simple yes, but clean cut, and obviously rehearsed and planned. I think the montage is possible.

    the path of a slave...from his village/boat/auction/as a slave/road to freedom/freedom

    this is 6 main parts...ideally 6 different sets for each and we shall fill in holes and spots in between each part...thus putting all the things we want.

    as a lecture prof stated often revolutionary things are often the result of War. American was trapped in the deadly Vietnam War in the 60s and 70s it created anger within the country Thus the rise and fall of many great and horrific things in American History

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  27. Mr. Cheney when r we going too start shooting the film?

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  28. dont forget we are going to show u the bloopers from me zaks and tomas's science to show you what is going to happen, whats it goin to be like and what problems we might encounter while shooting the film

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  29. So that is how to begin making a movie. Lets get serious about roles. Acting come much later. Research, scene summaries, scripts, story boards (sketches and plans for camera shots), find transition photos, montage plan.

    we should make teams in charge of blocks rather then entire movie. Thus we will need 6 production teams to over see all details for each block

    1 Capture scene

    2 Boat scene

    3 Auction scene

    4 Slave scene

    5 Road to freedom

    6 Freedom

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  30. Im going to be doing road to freedom montage.@Mr cheney rocky 4 is definetly next.

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  31. i am going to be doing the capture scene

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  32. I am doing the road to freedom scene.

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  33. I want to do the capture sence(montage)Im kind of good at these out of suprise capturing like some ransom things but the only difference is your captured to be a slave....I will have to do alot of thinking for this and it has to sound like (and look like) a suprise attack.

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  34. im doin the capture scene its going to really give a good start to the biggining of the movie

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  35. im going to do the road to freedom with Heli

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  36. The people who are gonna be doing the scene for road to freedom could be Me,Josh,Prayas,Zak and Usman

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  37. I have a good idea for the last scene (freedom scene). So at the end of the railroad they came to Canada so I was thinking that when they make it there we could show the canadian flag that's in the front of the school. Then we could show them trying to find a home or something. I didn't come up with much but it's a start.

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  38. what adam said for the capture scene was a good idea on how we have the camera on the ground and have people just run across.

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  39. we could use the portable outside as cottages or houses for when the slaves escape and stay place to place on their journey to freedom

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  40. Capture scene could be a montage of endless captured slaves

    aswell voice over as part of the pictures to begin each scene

    as well historical quotes from the people we have studied to aid each transition

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  41. for the capture scene we could do a part in the beaumonde park in the forest includeing what adam said but its going to depend on the weather.

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  42. What we could do for the road to freedom is have the slaves plan their escape and how they used safe homes Thamil said we can use his house for a safe home.

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  43. for the auction scene, we can use the the podium in the large gym as where the judge stands, or maybe for where the "victums" have to stand, you know behind it

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  44. #3 for the auction scene we could use mr cheney storage room to keep the slaves in and then auction then off.we could make a use of the stage in the library to auctoin them off but the we would have to have the slaver ready if we were going to show the storage room it would be more difficult.

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  45. And we can use the creek for their journey to the safe home.

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  46. the interesting part for what i have in mined for the capture scene is that it is mostly just action and body thanguage which will help the audence with what is going on it dosnt have much of a script plus with the opening credits and some help wwe can make the capture scene look pretty cool

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  47. im doing the auction scene

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  48. Does anyone else want to do the last scene (freedom scene)? We could do a montage or an acting scene where there is a family who lets them stay at their house and helps them find jobs. It's just an idea though.

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  49. im also doing auction scene!!!!!!!

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  50. 2 montages???

    Canadian flag great idea!!!

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  51. we could have slave catchers in a scene with their hunting dogs into a forest place where the slaves are walking/running super quietly and then the slaves hear slave catchers with their dogs coming.

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  52. @stepphanie and amrit those are both really good ideas we ca use in the movie

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  53. I wanna do the auction scene because i think its going to be intresting to do.

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  54. ok master chief
    i want to be in the road to freedome group.and i do have an idea
    when they escaping and they are on the trail following the north star right. they will have to stop to get food and water.so they stop at a house with the lanter, it's a sign that they support the black people,.and we can show that the slaves are full of fear and they don't know what to do next.

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  55. we could have the slaves staay at a place such as a portable during the morning and have them run at night

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  56. the slaves usede to communicate during song so there owners would not know they were planing to escape maybe we coud put that in the movie but then we would have to figure out wat song they sang or we would have to make it up

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  57. you know what i changed my mind...i want to do the auction scene i dont want to do the capture scene anymore!!

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  58. i think we should use the library's stage for the auction scene

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  59. Perhaps between the Road to freedom and the freedom scene we could have a segment with an actor portraying John Brown. John Brown could be on his way to a slaver's house to massacre them, and John Brown could kill a slaver from the slaver's point of view, like literally seeing from their eyes. We can do this by using black construction paper over the camera lense to impersonate the slavers eyes, and whilst he is sleeping, John brown and his troops make a commotion and that wakes him up to the fearsome sight of John Brown, and he is holding a sword or something, with a voiceover of the slaver, and then John Brown Slashes down, but then everything goes dark, and then a view of the house from the outside can be shown with the screaming of the slaver. I dont know how half the stuff will be possible, but i think its plausible to attempt, What do you think?

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  60. i agree it would it would make it look like a real auction.

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  61. #3-for the auction part like janat said we can use the speech table in the gym that they used for the speeches that brown thing that they also use at assembles.that can be whre the person stands who is auction them off then someone else can be bringing then in having to untie then from the rest and put then in a different place so later we can show the slave owned pick then up

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  62. I think that the capture scene is a good idea with the camera on the ground and first a slave running past and then the capturers going past. Then the camera could pan out and show the take down/capture. It's a good idea to get the audience intrigued so they will continue to watch the movie. But I have to ask again. Who will be doing the freedom scene? I will be but I've noticed most people are doing the capture or road to freedom scenes. Those are great scenes but the freedom scene is important too because it's the final scene and shows them finally getting to freedom after a long and hard journey. I'm just wondering because I can't do the scene by myself.

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  64. i wanna do the auction scene...

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