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Game Over Script 

Film starts:

Conor opens front door of house, (he is drunk and is still drinking). He slams door behind him. He proceeds and stumbles down the steps. He continues down the driveway.

Conor: (Drunken shout) Yeooo

With a sharp transition to the side of the entry to the house we see the gunman passing the camera and loading the gun. Next transition is onto the street where Conor stumbles across and sits on the kerb beside a lamp post.(change in camera angle) He proceeds to light his cigar.

Killer: (gun appears on Conors head) Your time’s up (gunshot is fired)

Title appears on screen saying 2 hours earlier.

Mellow music meets the start of the poker game. The camera interrupts in the middle of a hand. Where peter and David are reveling their cards the dealer is also in view.

James- Show your cards boys.

Peter- (puts cards on table) two sevens.

David-(puts card on table) tens and fives.

Conor- (camera shows him checking his hand and putting cars on table) All hearts, king high.

James- Theirs your winner boys (passes chips across table to conor)

Conor- Laughs.

Transition to David as he resigns from the game. 

David- ( Removes Tooth pick from his mouth, Takes a drink. He looks to his left) I’ve had quite enough of this game (he then looks to his right) I’ve had quite enough of this company (looks to the dealer) see me out (he passes chips to the dealer)

James-What have we got here. 

(David leaves) 

James- We still playing boys. ( camera looks to Conor and he nods seriously)

Peter- Looks like its only the two of us.(he takes a drink)

James- You ready boys(deals out cards)

(Transition from Peter to Conor in the middle of the shot)

James- Lets play boys

(over the shoulder shot of Conors cards, then the camera changes to an over the shoulder shot of Peter he evidently has the better hand from the start)

Peter- (Takes a drink and throws a chip into the middle of the table) one thousand.

Conor- (Throws chips in to the middle straight away) Il see your one thousand and raise you two thousand.

Peter- (Throws more chip into the middle) Five thousand 

Conor- Call

Peter- (Knocks the table) Card 

(dealer gives peter his card)

Conor- Il have two please. (quick change to an over the shoulder shout, the anxiety on his face is obvious) 

Peter-( throws chips into middle of the table) Eight thousand.

Conor- Il see you the Eight thousand and raise you one thousand.

Peter- (Takes a drink,lifts out money for his pocket and passes it the the Dealer) Ten thousand 

James- Ten thousand dollars, thats a lot of money, Ive seen people die around this table. you sure?

Peter- Positive 

James-(passes the chips) thats the main thing

Peter-(pushes chips into the middle of the table) Lets see who has the balls now.

Conor-(Takes a breath) Call

Dealer- (pulls chips into the middle) Lot of money here boys.(few quick tansitions) Show your cards boys.

Peter- (camera is lookin from a birds eye view at the table) Four kings 

Conor-(camera close up and he still looks nervous) four aces.

Peter-you conned me boy( he jumps up from the table and strikes it and walks away 

James-We have a winner 

Conor- (points to Peter) Il get my money (looks to dealer) cash me in for those chips there dealer.

James- (counts money out) No problem sir, haven't seen a player like that in a while. Theres two hundred thousand, all yours, have a good night.

Conor- (Passes him a tip) thats for your services.

James- Thanks very much, i appreciate it. (Dealer stands up and looks into the camera) GAME OVER 

Movie ends with a livetype image of cards turing with game over on the faces of them. A gun shot is heard.

Movie Ends 

Storyboard

I am going to re-post our storyboard with full size images.

A brief history of title design

http://vimeo.com/20759580

Scene of murder

Music For Film

We are currently in the progress of creating background music to play in our our short production, currently we have music made for the opening scene, the murder scene. It is orchestral music which was made in garageband which really adds to the effect of the murder scene and keeps the viewer engaged. We recieved great feedback and also it has given us ideas to continue this throughout the rest of the production to keep the viewers more excited and engaged.. Pictures to follow on how me made this

Lighting Changes

On Monday 21st March we re filmed some of the card game to try and improve the lighting. We felt some of the shots including those of Peter and Conor were too dull. We used spot lights to enhance the light in the room. we added a new sound track to the start of the film also. We feel we are close to completion but just are correcting a few minor points.


Melted Productions

Photos from the set

BBC Drama

Conor, Gavin and myself got the opportunity to go and watch the filming of a new BBC drama. We originally got the opportunity to go and meet the directors, Lighting Technicians and set co-coordinators on Monday the 7th March. They were filming in Harberton park, we spoke with the director and he asked us to be extras in the show and said we were welcome to come onto the set to try and develop new ideas for our own video "Game Over". We were invited back on Friday to a house in Finighy. We arrived on sat at 1:45 but due to adverse weather conditions they couldn't film outside so they rescheduled and did other filming. They said we couldn't take photos this early in production but when we are extras we can do interviews and take relevant photos regarding our film ideas. The main themes of the drama is retaliation, hate and pain. Unofficially it is based on Martin McGuinness. The highly estemed  James Nesbit is in the drama so it should be intresting to get to see it from the the other side of the screne.         

We were allowed to take a few photos of the vans and packing up.

Promoting the video!

We as a group are promoting the video via Facebook. We have created a group to generate feedback about our video. We have added a group of diverse individuals to the group to prevent the same feedback from each person. We are basing our video on a 1970s game of poker between high flyers that goes wrong. We have taken ideas from a multitude of movies of our time and before. We looked at Bond movies, however we recieved most of our motivation from The sting a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 that involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters(Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who previously directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The title phrase refers to the moment when a con artist finishes the "play" and takes the mark's money. If a con game is successful, the mark does not realize he has been "taken" (cheated), at least not until the con men are long gone. The film is divided into distinct sections with old-fashioned title cards with lettering and illustrations rendered in a style reminiscent of the Saturday Evening Post. The film is noted for its musical score—particularly its main melody, "The Entertainer", a piano rag by Scott Joplin, which was lightly adapted for the movie by Marvin Hamlisch. The film's success encouraged a surge of popularity and critical acclaim for Joplin's work. The movie fascinated us and we felt if we could try to emulate and also add our own ideas we could come up with an excellent movie that will capture the imaginations of its audience.

Re-shooting

We are re-shooting some scenes tonight where the light is affecting the quality of the film, light is a key component of filming so we have to make sure that it is 100% accurate at all times.

Just a few photos Pre filiming

Programme!

The first casualty of the game

The con-man looks on

An angry player ..

Aftermath