Saturday, July 18, 2015
HOMEMADE ACTION MOVIE
I’ll be back in a week, red as a lobster,
exhausted, and five pounds heavier (we have great cooks in the family).
I’m heading to Edisto
Island, South Carolina, for a week’s vacation with my family tomorrow. I have
six grandkids, none of them ordinary but they can be normal, depending on your
definition of normal. Their personalities are as different as sand and rock.
This year only four of them will be at the beach with us. My task is to write a
script for a movie I’ll make with the four of them. In the photo below, the
actor on the right is visiting his Spanish grandparents and won’t be with us.
(His three year-old brother hasn’t risen to the ranks yet.)
Stanard Studio Actors
First off, the script has
to be short and feature four characters (three girls, one boy). It must be set
either on the beach, in a room, or on the island; only in the summer time; only
shorts or swimsuits for costumes.
BAD GIRL MOVIE
Last year we shot a movie
about a girl who “borrowed” a watch from her friend, accidentally fell into the
swimming pool while wearing it and ruined it, and tried to get out of blame for
it. After going over their lines and practicing, most of the
grandkids stuck with it until we got a final shoot. My husband Doug edited what
became a noteworthy independent movie.
SCRIPT WITH DIAMONDS
Here’s what I’m thinking
for this year. The kids find a bottle washed up on the beach. It has a map
inside. They put their heads together and figure out it’s a treasure map with
locations on the island. They follow the map to the golf course or marina or somewhere
on the island and find “diamonds” (from Michaels craft store) near the pier.
They get into a dispute over who found them first. As they’re standing on the
pier, the argument turns into a scuffle, and the diamonds fall over the side
into the ocean.
I know... this plot is about
as interesting as one of Nicholas Sparks’ novels. We’ll look to the actors to
pull out a winning movie.
Last year we used my aged Olympus
camera to shoot the film. This year I have a new iPhone, which I’m still
learning to use. Filming should be easier. At any rate, I hope the audio is
better.
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