Dealer's Choice pitch

This story is about two aliens who have an interest and studies the ways and lives of humans. The first one, Cole and his friend Noki. Each of the two have special abilities as well. Cole has telekinesis and a genius IQ, but is arrogant and thinks his more superior due to his intellect, but has a major curiosity to humans and wants to learn as much about them as he can. He's mostly interested in studying humans themselves and how their bodies work as well as their personalities and emotions.

Noki has teleportation abilities and is more curious about how humans live and the objects, gadgets and tools they use. Her curiosity leads her to sometimes sneak onto earth and slip into houses, offices or other buildings and snatch away things, such as electronics, accessories and even small objects and considers it easy since she can teleport and claims she'll never be caught despite Cole's demands that she doesn't continue slipping onto Earth fearing that their existence will be discovered.

Cole gets really worried when finally people on Earth begin to notice that many of their things begin disappearing more and more often since Noki has been going to Earth to gather more objects from there more often than usual. Cole, greatly annoyed, goes after her one night when she makes another attempt to pick up some things in order to stop her. But she ends up almost caught and the two narrowly escape. But Noki continues to come to earth and finally ends up caught despite Cole's warnings. Cole doesn't know what to do, but he does know he needs to think of a way to help her in some way or another.

Instructional video link

Here is the link to my edited version of my group's instructional video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLd_99maFKs

Group film shot list

Storyboard outline for group film

Outline

A. Guy sees girl

1. guy wants girl

2. guy writes down a list of ways to get girl

3. pumps himself up in the bathroom

B. Guy tries to get girl

1. guy uses his list to get the girl

2. tries saying hi

a. gets shut down by person entering party hugging girl

b. then sees guy with facial hair has lots of women and tries mustache

3. tries wearing a fake mustache

a. girl mistakes mustache for smudge on his lip

b. boy then runs to the bathroom to wash it off

4. tries dancing

a. terrible dancing and accidentally hits boy and gets into fight

5. tries fighting

a. after getting into this fight with other boy at the party he then bumps into the boy several times after and continuously gets beat up

6. tries giving her flowers from her own vase

a. girl seems confused by the flowers

b. she puts the flowers back into her vase

7. finally succeeds when making origami out of his list

a. she sees this and drags him into her room

C. Guy finally succeeds at getting girl

D. Origami scene

Storyboard for group film

Props/Makeup list for group film

Makeup Props

Female makeup Notepad/pen

Fight makeup solo cups

Mustache eye liner Bottle o Volka

flowers

origami/paper

bucket for keys

Group film set map

Here is the map of the place my group will be using for our film. Our location is Metz Hall room 202.

New video link

Here is the link to my new video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSfyHMngVeQ

Self Critique

"Sense of Place short film"

I started with an idea of a documentary style for my video. I've been told that I'm good at telling stories, so I thought that it could work well with this project. The main idea was for me to try and get my point across and understand my opinion on the topic "sense of place". I first shot a scene at the school building then a view of the park, then one of the neighborhood I live near and then my dorm room and finally back to the school. I thought the film was a good first try and that even though it might not be much, I've been able to make a point on it. Some thought the documentary was a good idea. I also just thought I did well with using the webcam for the first time. I understand that not much is happening in this one, but I know that because I didn't pick a good time to do the filming as well as too much repetition. I just need to work a little harder to get the material I want.

Doing this kind of work is easy once I learnt to do it right. It was a bit frustrating. One weakness I have is I'm a little nervous about film shots with people because I have a feeling that I'm really not suppose to do that without their permission or something. I don't mean to sound all nervous, I just want to make sure I'm doing my work the right and taking the right steps to do it. Plus I get sort of nervous when it's me on camera or my voice, but I need to get over that and be more self confident in that area.