INSPIRATION

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Preliminary Shot list

LOCATION: TRAIN TRACKS

MOOD: vulnerable and burdened

1. SHOT 1 - LONG - Father walking down the middle of the train tracks holding an infant in a blanket

2. SHOT 2 - CLOSE Father’s face staring ahead and looking at his feet

3. SHOT 3 - CLOSE - Boots walking on the tracks with a tag hanging down

4. SHOT 4 - MEDIUM - Father walking PUSH into baby feather poking out of the baby blanket

5. SHOT 4/5 - CLOSE - Boots stop CAMERA TILT UPWARD AND PAN to reveal overwhelming scale of his surroundings

6. SHOT 6 - B roll - gravel, rocks, clouds

LOCATION: TRAIN TRACKS SAME OR OTHER

MOOD: Lost, alone

1. SHOT 6 - CLOSE ON a different older pair of boots without a tag walking on the tracks. PUSH OUT revealing it is sometime later. The man wears different clothes. He does not hold a baby now. He smokes a cigarette

2. SHOT 7: LONG FROM BEHIND as he walks

3. SHOT 8: CLOSE: boots walking and stopping.

4. SHOT 9: ARC SHOT or OVER THE SHOULDER starting at the side of man’s face to…

5. SHOT 8 : FIRST PERSON: little girl 3 to 4 years old sits in the dirt with a jar that reads “BUGS” THIS SHOT IS AI

6. SHOT 9: - STATIC CLOSE ON father’s face….

FINAL SHOT: LONG SHOT away from camera - The father and daughter both wear wings and walk down the tracks. The daughter could skip beside the tracks as the father walks in the center carrying a birdhouse.

LOCATION: WIND MILLS

MOOD: freedom and separation

1. SHOTS: COVERAGE CLOSE AND LONG: Daughter wanders alone with the windmills behind her, PULL OUT or PULL IN as she gets smaller or larger to show her isolation and loneliness.

2. SHOTS: COVERAGE CLOSE AND LONG: Arms outstretched, the daughter skips around the windmills.

3. B Roll: POINT OF VIEW from below a windmill revealing it’s massive size, hand reaches into the sky

LOCATION: BOMBAY BEACH SHACKS AND TRAILER PARK

Mood: alienation and searching and initial connection

1. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: father stands or crouches in the middle of the street alone amongst the shacks and trailers.

2. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: Daughter stands in a doorway of an abandoned shack.

3. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: Daughter sits in an abandoned car blowing bubbles.

4. SHOT PANNING a single bubble floating along.

5. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: father sits on steps of broken down trailer smoking when a bubble floats beside him

6. LONG SHOT: father and daughter stand in the middle of the street looking at one another.

7. LONG SHOT: Father and daughter dance together in the middle of the street

8. B roll: Big boots/small boots on the steps, big feather/little feather propped in the dirt

Daughter’s shadow on the ground with wings

LOCATION: JOSHUA TREE or SALTON SEA NORTH SHORE

Mood: Hope and joy

1. SHOTS: MEDIUM/ CLOSE SHOTS: Father and daughter plant seeds in the earth

2. SHOTS:MEDIUM /CLOSE /LONG: Father and daughter put up a birdhouse

3 SHOT: LONG/ MEDIUM CLOSE - daughter paints the word CHANGE on a rock

4. SHOT: LONG/ MEDIUM - father and daughter sit in the dirt collecting bugs

5. B roll: seeds flying out of a hand

LOCATION: BOMBAY BEACH WATER AND ART INSTALLATIONS

MOOD: fellow misfits, joy, pride, connection, fun, fearless, love

1. SHOT: LONG/MEDIUM - father and daughter fly a kite near the ocean

2. SHOT: LONG/MEDIUM/CLOSE: - father and daughter splash water in the ocean,skipping rocks

3. SHOT: LONG/MEDIUM/CLOSE: father plays his guitar for daughter in front of art installation

4. SHOT: LONG/MEDIUM/CLOSE: father watches his daughter pretending to be a bird around the abandoned ship

5. SHOT: LONG/MEDIUM/CLOSE: daughter draws on her father’s face and plays with his

hair with clips and hair bands as he poses by an art installation

6. SHOT: CLOSE/MEDIUM: daughter sketches birds in an art book

7. SHOT: CLOSE/MEDIUM/LONG: father and daughter play hide and seek amongst the art installations.

8. B roll : sculptures, graffiti, signs, daughter’s hair

ADDED:

Dad Climbs rocks

Daughter climbs rocks

Hands up to sky

Daughter with feathers

Daughter hands Father a late feather.

Daughter shadow on ground with wings.

Dad walking near gas station.

Scout

Salton Sea Morongo Train Tracks Palm Springs Windmills Joshua Tree