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Shooting Script

Class Production

Shooting Script  of 'Walking Home Alone' Video                   21/01/2013

OVER BLACK:

MUSIC SOUNDTRACK

The first notes of the song sound.

FADE IN TO BLACK AND WHITE SETTING:

1.EXT. BUSY STREET IN A BIG CITY - MORNING

PAN SHOT of the street, followed by TILT UP toward the top of high-rise towers (skyscrapers) and TILT DOWN

to ZOOM FORWARD on the date on the front page of a crumpled newspaper lying on the sidewalk:

'Sunday Newspaper'.

CUT TO:

CLOSE SHOT of the newspaper which is blown away down the street (TRACKING SHOT) and ends up near a man's foot .

CUT TO:

EXTREME CLOSE UP on a piece of chewing gum, then ZOOM OUT/BACKWARD to show a man from the waist down, then from head to toe.

He looks depressed, his head bent.

The man's feet step very close to the gum and then the man walks on, now shown in a FULL SHOT.

The man walks away into the distance. He is now seen in a LONG SHOT.

MUSIC SOUNDTRACK

Chorus of the song.

DISSOLVE TO COLOR

2.INT.APARTMENT-AFTERNOON

FULL SHOT: A couple is arguing while having a cup of coffee, They are gesticulating and talking angrily.

CLOSE UP on the woman's angry face.

PAN TO THE RIGHT: A Broadway tune is being played on an old radio transistor.

The man is seen begging her but she does not want to talk to him anymore. However, the man kneels down.

MAN

(IN SUBTITLES)

Baby, please don't go. I forgive you.  But ... am I not good enough for you?

We can work it out. Please stay with me. I love you.

The  woman suddenly throws the coffee cup to the floor. (SLOW MOTION)

HIGH-ANGLE SHOT of the kneeling man  who now picks up a broken piece of the cup and sighs deeply.

He stands up, shakes her hand and says 'OK'.

The woman angrily turns her back on him and walks out of the room.

CUT TO:

3.EXT. STREET. MORNING

FULL SHOT of the man as he walks down the street, then walks past a stray dog.

CLOSE UP on the dog's nose, followed by ZOOM OUT to show the man .

P.O.V. SHOT of the man staring at the skinny dog which in turns stares back at the man with an imploring look in its eyes.

CUT TO:

4.EXT.SAME STREET-MOMENTS LATER

 MUSIC SOUNDTRACK

Chorus of the song

HIGH-ANGLE SHOT + TRACKING IN of the man walking on down the street while the poor dog stays behind on the

sidewalk.

                                                                                                                                                                                                             
FADE OUT

At Exhibition Review

"La Isla Del Tesoro"

Exhibition title:  "La Isla Del Tesoro" from Holbein to Hockney.
Venue Name:  " Fundación Juan March"
Website: http://www.march.es/arte/madrid/exposiciones/la-isla-del-tesoro/
Exhibition Dates: 5th October 2012 - 20th January 2013
Venue Address: Calle de Castelló, 77, 28006 Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid 

This winter exhibition called "La Isla del Tesoro" was on exhibit at the "Fundación Juan March". In this public showing there are lots of artists from different  periods;  

•   Destruction and reforms (1520-1620) with artists like Hans Holbein, Robert Peake, Marcus Gheeraerts or William Lakin...
•   The Revolution and the Baroque (1620-1720) with artists as Anthony van Dyck, Peter Leley, William Dobson and Godfrey Kneller with the landscapes of Jan Siberechts and the Historic paintings of James Thornhill. 
• Society and Satire (1720-1800) with Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, James Gillray,  Thomas Rowlandson and William Hogarth.
• Mind's Landscapes (1760-1850) with artists like Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs, John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. There are watercolour paintings of Thomas Girthing  Samuel Palmer Thomas and some other painters.
• Realism and Reaction (1850-1900) with lots of important artists as John Frederick Lewis, David Oberts, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, J.A.M. Whistler and Frederic Leighton.
• Modernity and Tradition (1900-1940) with Walte Richard Sickert, Henry Lamb, Gwen John and Spencer Gore, and the more radical art with Wyndham Lewis, Duncan Grant and David Bomberg.
•  "Britain seen from the North" the huge sculpture made by Tony Cragg in 1981.

This exhibition is showed  in a museum called "Fundación Juan March".

The effect the exhibition has on the viewer is that when you enter, it seems to take you to an ancient time, to a far past seeing all the paintings from 1520 to 1941. Everything is worth seeing but if you really like landscapes you can see the section of  "Mind's Landscapes", they look enigmatic, and deal with nature and beauty, I personally love this part. The paintings overwhelm me. The works that I valued the most in this section were:

¨Proserpine¨, an appealing young woman, with an enigmatic look, and an absent expression.
This woman represents Proserpine or  Persephone in the Greek mythology. She has in her hand a pomegranate, the fatal fruit, because she ate six seeds, therefore she must stayed six months in Hades' Kingdom and the other six months in the earth with her mother.

Proserpine, 1874

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 

Currently housed at Tate Britain

¨Nocturne Blue and Silver¨ a beautiful and simple landscape where the colour blue predominates and where silver and yellow colours are also present. These sweet, soft and pale colours make you feel calm and relax when you look at them:

Nocturne Blue and Silver, 1872

Dante James Abbott McNeil 

Tate Britain

The title of the exhibition, "The Treasure Island", has a significant concept because all the paintings and sculptures that we can see in this exhibition are from the island of  Britain and all these works of art are considered treasures. So the meaning of the title exhibition has been well chosen.

As a sixteen year old student of the Lycée Français of Madrid specialized in Literature I'm going to present  the painting I talked to my class in the Juan March exhibition.

My painting  is "Britain Seen From The North" it was made by Tony Cragg, a British visual artist specialised in sculptures. He was born in April 1949. If you know a little bit of Tony Cagg's works you may know that his early works are made from found materials; like the work "Britain Seen From The North"  made on March 1981.

This is a wall relief made from broken scrap materials which he had collected from streets and waste sites in London immediately before the exhibition. It's often interpreted as commenting on the social and economic difficulties Britain was going through at that time. This was the first occasion on which he had incorporated materials other than plastic in a work of this kind, because here we can see discarded plastic objects, metal and wood.

This work consists of two elements:
  - On the left side there is a standing male figure, possibly the artist himself.
  - Next to him a representation of the British Island.
Therefore we can think that the artist is "seeing" Britain from the North.

The male figure was made by the artist drawing around his own body on to a sheet of polythene pinned to the wall, and the map by freehand from an atlas used as a reference.

I like this work because it's quite fun and very original. This painting is enormous and when you look at it,   it impacts you because you look so small compare to this work of art. 

"Britain Seen From The North", 1981

Tony Cragg

Fundación Juan March

" The Treasure Island" ends the 20th of January 2013 but there will be another exhibition called "De la vida doméstica, bodegones y flamencos holandeses del siglo XVII" on the same venue.

Stan Ridgway

Walking Home Alone

You can find here the gapped correction.

FILMMAKING TECHNIQUES

 -Barton Fink:
Barton Fink is a 1991 American film, written, directed, and produced by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a movie studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie, the insurance salesman who lives next door at the run-down Hotel Earle.


 -Joel & Ethan Coen:
 Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957) known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. Their films include Blood Simple, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, and True Grit.
The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, although until recently Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing. They often alternate top billing for their screenplays while sharing film credits for editor under the alias Roderick Jaynes.


John Turturro
Highly talented, lightly built Italian American actor who always looks unsettled and jumpy has become a favourite of cult/arthouse film aficionados with his compelling performances in a broad range of cinematic vehicles. Has become a regular in the thought provoking films of Spike Leeand the off the wall comedies of Joel Coen & Ethan Coen  Ethan Coen...See full bio »

Born:

 John Michael Turturro
February 28, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American film, television, and stage actor. He is best known for his role as Dan Conner on the television series Roseanne (1988–1997) for which he won a Best Actor Golden Globe Award in 1993, and for providing the voice of Sully in Monsters, Inc. As a film actor, he has frequently collaborated with the Coen Brothers, including in Raising Arizona,Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?.










 

GREEN DAY

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

1) 
The lexical field of loneliness includes words such as "only one", "empty", "alone" and "lonely". The imagery  associated with it is found in the lines 1, 5, 7, 8, 10 and 11.They also connote ideas of isolation, rejection, regret and basically unhappiness. Besides, this convey a feeling of loss and lack as if the singer was lacking love, friendship and affection.


2) 
     Line 11: "My shallow heart that's beating"
     Line 14/15: "The line that divides me"
     Line 20: "Check my vital signs... I'm still alive"
     
These are three images closely related to the body and mind, with a common point between them. it sounds as if the man is lifeless, probably because his life doesn't have sense to him as he has no reason for living. He needs love/hope to fill  his heart/ mind, in order to feel alive.
     

3) 
The topographical reference included in the title is "boulevard" which refers to a wide road usually full of people, lines with trees and shops. So it connotes luxury, dreams, money, glamour, happiness, fame (the famous Sunset Boulevard) but in this song it's full of broken dreams. Then we find three other kinds/types/ sorts of topographical references:

•  A road is mentioned but it is said to have no destination; "don't know where it goes" even though a road usually leads somewhere.
• A street is also mentioned but it's empty where as streets usually convey ideas of activity, crowded side walks heavy traffic.
• The "city sleeps" whereas big cities usually never sleeps as they are always very busy lively... Therefore, it seems that all these places are lifeless, like the main character of the song

4) CONCLUSION

The "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is a metaphor for the ups and downs anybody can go through in their lives. Everybody experiences hardships and has their dreams and hopes shattered because life isn't a "bed of roses". When this happens, we often feel depressed, lonely, sad, like the singer of this song. 

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Boulevard of Broken Dreams 

1) Cover artwork of the album American idiot





2) Contrasting Reviews of this record Cover artwork of the album American idiot 

Negative:
Ah, middle school, the time that you would listen to anything regardless of quality. I remember this album being hyped up by the kids at my school and they claimed that it was one of the best of the year. By the time this album was released, I was starting to get into heavy metal and outgrowing the nu-metal/pop punk that I was into. I was never really into Green Day, but since the kids at my school hyped this album up, I decided to give it a chance and this is pretty much one of the most boring albums I've listened to. 9 minute songs just don't work for bands of this calibre  The songs start to get boring after a few minutes, no interesting guitar work, bland drumming, bland vocals and generic lyrics.
  Overall, just another overrated album that isn't worth the hype it received  If you like this type of music, you'll like this, but this just isn't for me.

Positive:
Surprisingly good. That’s what was for me American Idiot when it was released in 2004. Taking inspiration from the epic Quadrophenia by The Who, Billie Joe Armstrong built an ambitious rock opera about Jesus of Suburbia, a quick-tempered guy who hates his own town. Music is often easy listening and dazzling (Are We The Waiting, Give Me a Novacaine, Wake Me Up When September Ends), moving sometimes to worked up and powerful sounds (American Idiot, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, St.Jimmy) in order to suggest refusal to social and political rules, rage and will to riot. In addiction, drums and sharp variation in rhythm convey a sort of inventiveness: listen for example to the astonishing Jesus of Suburbia and to the arousing melancholy tones of Whatsername.
American Idiot isn't only Green Day’s best work ever, it’s probably one of the best modern rock album.


3) Short biography of the band: 


Green Day was part of the California punk scene. Childhood friends Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, vocals) and Mike Dirnt (bass; born Mike Pritchard) formed their first band, Sweet Children, in Rodeo, California when they were 14 years old. By 1989, the group had added drummer Al Sobrante and changed their name to Green Day. That year, the band independently released their first EP, 1,000 Hours, which was well-received in the punk scene. Soon, the group had signed a contract with the local independent label, Lookout! Records. 39/Smooth, Green Day's first album, was released later that year. Shortly after its release, the band replaced Kiftmeyer with Tre Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright, III); Tre Cool became the band's permanent drummer.

In September of 2004 Green Day  released "American Idiot", an album which lashes out against the American government and the media. "American Idiot" was the first Green Day record ever to debut at #1 on the Billboard Charts, and other music charts around the world. The album's title track, was an instant success. The follow up single, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" experienced a must greater success. "American Idiot" was nominated for seven Grammy awards, and took home one, "Best Rock Album". In August of 2005, Green Day took home 7 Video Music Awards from MTV.

Do you like it or not? Do you know what does it means?

In my opinion this song is really good but it's not the kind of music I listen to everyday. I heard about this  group long time ago and I listened some of their songs  but they not attract me a lot. I can say that it's a beautiful song and lyrics are very good but punk rock is not for me. Additionally the way that the members of the band dress or paint their faces are not my style. Normally the music that I listen to is House, Reggae, Pop and sometimes Rap.Firstly I didn't know what this song means but after listening to it a few times in class and then at home I think I understood a little bit. Personally I think  that this song talks about a person who feels lonely in the world and he sings all his emotional life while he's walking at the boulevard of Broken Dreams.