Hey guys and gals. I was at this party on Friday night (Big waste of F'ing time) and i got this great idea. All these guys were smoking out the front and i was noticing how quick it takes to smoke one cigarette, and i thought to myself how much one persons life can change in the time it takes to smoke one cigarette.
Basicly the short starts off with this guy lighting up a cigarette and explaining to us how much one persons life can change in the time it takes to smoke one cigarette.
He comes home one day to find his stuff thrown all over then lawn, he butts out the ciggarette he is smoking and he goes inside and his girlfriend/fiance (don't know which one yet) has be seeing this other guy. He is really shocked and leaves with his girlfriend/fiance yelling at him. As he is walking downb the drive he sees one of his close friends walking up the drive. He asks his friend what he is doing there and his response is, "What she hasn't told you yet?". So he gets the idea with that. As he gets out of the drive and walking down the street he gets a call from his mother saying that his 71 year old father had a heart attack and is in hospital and to come quick. He starts stressing out and tries to light a cigarette and his lighter won't work so but he keeps walking. He starts to cross the road and his lighter finally worka and he stops in the road to light the cigarette. A car comes scream round the corner and collects him. As his body hits the ground, his voice over comes in and he starts explainging how one persons life can change in the time it takes to smoke one cigarette.
It will go for the average time a one cigarette would last. Not a huge cast and could probably be shot in one to two days, if i'm lucky. I plan on using lots of close ups to show the emotional state of my main character as all this stuff happens to him.
I'm deffinately going to film it but if you guys have any ideas or good shots you might want to suggest to me everything is welcome. Once it is finished i will try and put it on the internet. I'm really psyched about this one. Tell me what you think!
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sounds like a nifty little idea, you should have lots of close ups of the cigarette burning and use some big sweeping shots that take the whole scene in and then centre on his face to show his emotions.
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Cool idea, post a link to it when your done : ) I think it'd be cool if you had someone who talks fast do the narrarating, kind of like dennis leary. The narrator could start his story telling co workers from the smoke pad or something then transition into the story by having an extreme close up of the cigarette butt as the main character inhales.
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Have a guy with a cockney accent to do the narrating. And yea have the cig flaring a lot.
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Ok sounds excellent... at the start when the narrator is talking it should be a close up directly on the cigerette while the guy takes a puff then slowly zoom out... and at the end when the guy is lying on the ground after being hit by a car and the narrator starts talking, u should slowly zoom in on a pack a cigerettes lying in a pool of blood that fell out of his pocket when he got hit.
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Awesome! you guys have great ideas!?:D? heh.
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"...and that's how the cookie crumbles..."
Good concept. Think of a cigarette and how it can symbolize time. I think as the narrator talks a cigarette should be lit. The narrator should take a drag and set the lit cigarette in an ash trey. Extreme close-up on the narrator's mouth as he talks, yellowed teeth, then exhale the smoke directly into camera, cut, to exhaust pipe of car, smokey, pull back, to the driveway scene. After each event is told to the main character cut back to the cigarette in the ash tray. Each cut to the cigarette the ash is getting longer. Like a time line.
I like the idea if you can't tell. Anyway just a suggestion or more like ramblings. I see the whole thing in my mind. I definitely want to check it out when you are done.
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