INSPIRATION
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Preliminary Shot list
SATURDAY
LOCATION: JOSHUA TREE or SALTON SEA NORTH SHORE
Mood: Hope and joy / Isolation, pain, alienation, longing, sadness
1. SHOTS: LONG/ CLOSE SHOTS HIDDEN VALLEY /RYAN RANCH/SHEEP PASS: Father walks alone amongst the rocks, a large feather sticks out of his back pocket. MOOD: Isolation, pain, alienation, longing, sadness
SHOT 2 HIDDEN VALLEY /RYAN RANCH/SHEEP PASS: CLOSE/MEDIUM: Father struggles to climb a rock.
SHOT 6: LONG/CLOSE: Father and daughter climb rocks, father holds out hand to help daughter
LONG/CLOSE HIDDEN VALLEY /RYAN RANCH/SHEEP PASS: Daughter is small amongst large rocks. A little feather sticks out of her back pocket.
SHOT 1: LONG/MEDIUM/CLOSE: Daughter walks in the large desert and trees alone holding up her tiny feather in the wind
1. SHOTS: MEDIUM/ CLOSE SHOTS HIDDEN VALLEY /RYAN RANCH/SHEEP PASS: Father and daughter plant seeds in the earth / WIDE AND CLOSE UPS OF WALKING
SHOT 2: CLOSE/LONG: Father scoops up pile of sand and holds it up in the sun as the wind blows it out of his hand
2. SHOTS:MEDIUM /CLOSE /LONG HIDDEN VALLEY /RYAN RANCH/SHEEP PASS: (OPTIONAL TO BOMBAY BEACH)Father and daughter put up a birdhouse
4. SHOT: LONG/ MEDIUM HIDDEN VALLEY /RYAN RANCH/SHEEP PASS - father and daughter sit in the dirt collecting bugs (AI?)
5. B roll HIDDEN VALLEY /RYAN RANCH/SHEEP PASS: seeds flying out of a hand, ADDED:big feather/little feather propped in the dirt
Daughter’s shadow on the ground with wings
SHOT 3: CLOSE: Daughter reaches her hands up to try and touch the sun Hands up to sky
SHOT 8: LONG: Father and daughter fly bird kite (this is one of those shots we can try in more than one location)
6. SHOT: CLOSE/MEDIUM SKULL ROCK: MEDIUM/CLOSE: Daughter sits on a rock sketching in a bird book , FREDDY IN EYE OF SKULL ROCK SHOT 4: LONG: Father huddles beside/inside large rock for comfort
SHOT 4: CLOSE: Daughter’s feet walk in the desert sand
3 SHOT: LONG/ MEDIUM CLOSE HALL OF HORRORS - daughter paints the word CHANGE on a rock MEDIUM/CLOSE: Daughter paints the word “change” on a rock
HALL OF HORRORS/TREES
SHOT: 5 MEDIUM/CLOSE: Father and daughter sits in the sand collecting bugs with a jar
SHOT 6: MEDIUM/CLOSE: Father and daughter plant seeds in the ground
SHOT 7: CLOSE: Seeds flying out of father’s hands in the wind
SHOT 8: MEDIUM: Daughter hugs a tree for comfort, crying.
SHOT 9: MEDIUM/CLOSE: Father hands his big feather to his daughter
B roll: Rock formations, tree branches, clouds
JUMBO ROCKS: TBD
SUNDAY
LOCATION 7AM: MORONGO TRAIN TRACKS TALENT AT CROSSING NOT DISTANCE
“YOUNG” FREDDY
MOOD: vulnerable and burdened
SILVER WHITE BOARD
SAFETY TALK- 2 LOOK OUTS
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
OLD LIST:
2. SHOT 2 - CLOSE Father’s face staring ahead and looking at his feet SHOT OFF TRACK 16MM GIMBAL
4. SHOT 4 - MEDIUM - Father walking PUSH into baby feather poking out of the baby blanket 16MM GIMBAL POSSIBLE AI SHOT/GRAB STILL
5. SHOT 4/5 - CLOSE - Boots stop CAMERA TILT UPWARD AND PAN to reveal overwhelming scale of his surroundings 16MM GIMBAL 180
** 3. SHOT 3 - CLOSE - Boots walking on the tracks with a tag hanging down 16MM GIMBAL
1. SHOT 1 - LONG - Father walking down the middle of the train tracks holding an infant in a blanket BOTTOM 1/3RD 16MM GIMBAL / B CAMERA 200MM
6. SHOT 6 - B roll - gravel, rocks, clouds LOCK OFFS FOR CLOUDS
LOCATION: WIND MILLS
ESTELLA
WHITE SILVER CARD
MOOD: freedom and dreams and imaginations
1. SHOTS: COVERAGE CLOSE AND LONG: Daughter twirls in circles imitating the windmills behind her, PULL OUT or PULL IN as she gets smaller or larger to show her smallness
2. SHOTS: COVERAGE CLOSE AND LONG: Arms outstretched, the daughter skips around the windmills.
3. SHOT: MEDIUM/LONG: daughter lays flat on her back looking up at windmills spinning
4. B Roll: POINT OF VIEW from below a windmill revealing it’s massive size, hand reaches into the sky
OLD NOTES:
MOOD: freedom and separation
16MM GIMBAL AND WHITE SILVER BOARD.
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. TRACKING AND FILLOWING 16MM GIMBAL. ESTELLA LOWER 1/3RD.
2. SHOTS: COVERAGE CLOSE AND LONG: Arms outstretched, the daughter skips around the windmills. BOTTOM 1/3
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: searching for 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. LONG SHOT/MEDIUM/EXTREME CLOSE: daughter runs down the street crying
9. 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
OLD NOTES:
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.
ADDED: WALKS ALONG ROAD WITH CIGARETTE.
6. LONG SHOT: father and daughter stand in the middle of the street looking at one another.
2. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE REALITY TRAILER: Daughter stands in a doorway of an abandoned shack.
FILM BOOTS HERE 8. B roll: Big boots/small boots on the steps
5. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: father sits on steps of broken down trailer smoking when a bubble floats beside him
3. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE CAR DRIVE IN: Daughter sits in an abandoned car blowing bubbles.
4. SHOT PANNING CAR DRIVE IN a single bubble floating along.
7. LONG SHOT: Father and daughter dance together in the middle of the street/ALLEY
MOVED SHOTS: 2. SHOTS:MEDIUM /CLOSE /LONG: Father and daughter put up a birdhouse
Daughter’s shadow on the ground with wings
LOCATION: BOMBAY BEACH WATER AND ART INSTALLATIONS
MOOD: Joy, pride, connection, fun, fearless, love, adventure, completeness
1. SHOTS:MEDIUM /CLOSE /LONG: Father and daughter put up a birdhouse
2. SHOT: LONG/MEDIUM - father and daughter fly a kite near the ocean
3. SHOT: LONG/MEDIUM/CLOSE: - father and daughter splash water in the ocean,skipping rocks
4, SHOT: LONG/MEDIUM/CLOSE: father plays his guitar for daughter in front of art
installation.
5. SHOT: LONG/MEDIUM/CLOSE: father watches his daughter pretending to be a bird
around the abandoned ship.
6. SHOT: LONG/MEDIUM/CLOSE: daughter puts stickers on her father’s face and plays
with his hair with clips and hair bands as he poses by an art installation
7. SHOT: CLOSE/MEDIUM: daughter sketches birds in an art book
8. SHOT: CLOSE/MEDIUM/LONG: father and daughter play hide and seek amongst the art
installations
B roll : sculptures, graffiti, signs, daughter’s hair
OLD NOTES:
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 BUS STOP: 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
LOCATION: TRAIN TRACKS 111 TALENT AT CROSSING NOT DISTANCE
FREDDY OLDER AND ESTELLA
SILVER WHITE BOARD
SAFETY TALK- 2 LOOK OUTS
MOOD: Lost, alone, unfulfilled
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.
PERHAPS: RACK FOCUS: of the two feathers sticking up from the tracks and then into focus of the father and daughter in their wings walking away from camera down the tracks as THE FINAL SHOT?
OLD NOTES:
MOOD: Lost, alone
6. SHOT 9: - STATIC CLOSE ON father’s face….
3. SHOT 8: CLOSE: boots walking and stopping.
6. SHOT 9: - STATIC CLOSE ON father’s face….
4. SHOT 9: ARC SHOT or OVER THE SHOULDER starting at the side of man’s face to…
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
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. 200M MM AND 16MM 1/3RD.
ACCESS ROAD near gas station. Freddy Estella walk, stand.
PROPS
Birdhouse
Big feather
Little feather
Stickers
Sketch book with bird cover
Fake rock
paint/brush
Jar “bugs”
Package of seeds
Baby doll
Blanket
Baby wings
Father’s wings
Daughter’s wings
Tag for boots (new)
Cigarettes
Lighter
Bubbles
Bird kite
Guitar
Stickers
Hair clips
Scout
Salton Sea Morongo Train Tracks Palm Springs Windmills Joshua Tree
53. Joshua Tree Across from Rock Piles Sheep Pass 2. SHOTS:MEDIUM /CLOSE /LONG: Father and daughter put up a birdhouse
52. Joshua Tree Hall of Horrors 3 SHOT: LONG/ MEDIUM CLOSE - daughter paints the word CHANGE on a rock
45. Joshua Tree Hidden Valley *Option- 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. Dad Climbs rocks Daughter climbs rocks
55. Joshua tree *Option- 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.
54. Joshua Tree
46. Joshua Tree Ryan Ranch and Ryan Mountain or Jumbo Rocks 4. SHOT: LONG/ MEDIUM - father and daughter sit in the dirt collecting bugs Daughter with feathers Daughter hands Father a late feather.
49. Joshua Tree near Skull Rock or Jumbo Rocks 6. SHOT: CLOSE/MEDIUM: daughter sketches birds in an art book (Moved from Salton Sea)
47. Joshua Tree Skull Rock
51. Joshua Tree Hall of Horrors 4:30 pm
50. Joshua Tree Hall of Horrors 4:30 pm 1. SHOTS: MEDIUM/ CLOSE SHOTS: Father and daughter plant seeds in the earth 5. B roll: seeds flying out of a hand Hands up to sky Daughter shadow on ground with wings.
35. Morongo train tracks 7 am 13990 Apache trail Cabazon, CA 92230 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
34. Morongo train tracks 7 am 13990 Apache trail Cabazon, CA 92230
32. Morongo train tracks 7 am 13990 Apache trail Cabazon, CA 92230
33. Morongo train tracks 7 am 13990 Apache trail Cabazon, CA 92230
31. Morongo train tracks 7 am 13990 Apache trail Cabazon, CA 92230 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.
37. Palm Springs windmills 7:30 am 701 Garnet Ave, Desert Hot Springs, Ca, Garnet Ave between Indian Canyon Drive and Wall road. 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
38. Palm Springs windmills 7:30 am 701 Garnet Ave, Desert Hot Springs, Ca, Garnet Ave between Indian Canyon Drive and Wall road
36. Palm Springs windmills 7:30 am 701 Garnet Ave, Desert Hot Springs, Ca, Garnet Ave between Indian Canyon Drive and Wall road
40. Palm Springs windmills 7:30 am 701 Garnet Ave, Desert Hot Springs, Ca, Garnet Ave between Indian Canyon Drive and Wall road
42. Palm Springs windmills 7:30 am 701 Garnet Ave, Desert Hot Springs, Ca, Garnet Ave between Indian Canyon Drive and Wall road
41. Palm Springs windmills 7:30 am 701 Garnet Ave, Desert Hot Springs, Ca, Garnet Ave between Indian Canyon Drive and Wall road
39. Palm Springs windmills 7:30 am 701 Garnet Ave, Desert Hot Springs, Ca, Garnet Ave between Indian Canyon Drive and Wall road
67. Salton Sea 2. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: Daughter stands in a doorway of an abandoned shack. 5. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: father sits on steps of broken down trailer smoking when a bubble floats beside him
62. Salton Sea 1. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: father stands or crouches in the middle of the street alone amongst the shacks and trailers. 6. LONG SHOT: father and daughter stand in the middle of the street looking at one another.
22. Bombay Beach Salton Sea 11:00 am 6. LONG SHOT: father and daughter stand in the middle of the street looking at one another.
58. Salton Sea 6. LONG SHOT: father and daughter stand in the middle of the street looking at one another.
59. Salton Sea
21. Bombay Beach Salton Sea 11:00 am
65. Salton Sea
61. Salton Sea 7. LONG SHOT: Father and daughter dance together in the middle of the street. *EXTRA SHOT GIRL SKIPS/RUNS CAMERA TRACKING FROM BACK OF VEHICLE.
57. Salton Sea
60. Salton Sea
19. Bombay Beach Salton Sea 11:00 am 2. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: Daughter stands in a doorway of an abandoned shack.
18. Bombay Beach Salton Sea 11:00 am
3. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: Daughter sits in an abandoned car blowing bubbles.
69. Salton Sea
68. Salton Sea
23. Bombay Beach Salton Sea 11:00 am
20. Bombay Beach Salton Sea 11:00 am 7. LONG SHOT: Father and daughter dance together in the middle of the street
16. Bombay Beach Salton Sea 11:00 am *EXTRA SHOT GIRL SKIPS/RUNS
75. Salton Sea 4. SHOT PANNING a single bubble floating along.
77. Salton Sea
76. Salton Sea
78. Salton Sea
84. Salton Sea 3. SHOT: LONG/MEDIUM/CLOSE: father plays his guitar for daughter in front of art installation
79. Salton Sea
85. Salton Sea 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
86. Salton Sea
87. Salton Sea 8. B roll : sculptures, graffiti, signs, daughter’s hair
74. Salton Sea
72. Salton Sea 4. SHOT: LONG/MEDIUM/CLOSE: father watches his daughter pretending to be a bird around the abandoned ship 7. SHOT: CLOSE/MEDIUM/LONG: father and daughter play hide and seek amongst the art installations.
73. Salton Sea
80. Salton Sea 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
81. Salton Sea 4. SHOT PANNING a single bubble floating along.
70. Salton Sea 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
2. Salton Sea North Beach 4:30 pm route 111 98900 block near fire station. *Option-4. SHOT PANNING a single bubble floating along.
71. Salton Sea *extra shot follow girl through door.
83. Salton Sea
82. Salton Sea
24. Bombay Beach Salton Sea 11:00 am
88. Salton Sea Tracks
93. Salton Sea Tracks 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
89. Salton Sea Tracks
90. Salton Sea Tracks
91. Salton Sea Tracks
92. Salton Sea Tracks
94. Salton Sea Tracks
7. Salton Sea North Beach 11:30 am route 111 98900 block near fire station 6. LONG SHOT: father and daughter stand in the middle of the street looking at one another. *Option-1. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: father stands or crouches in the middle of the street alone amongst the shacks and trailers. Dad walking near gas station.
5. Salton Sea North Beach 4:30 pm route 111 98900 block near fire station *Option-5. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: father sits on steps of broken down trailer smoking when a bubble floats beside him.
6. Salton Sea North Beach 11 :00 am route 111 98900 block near fire station *OPTION-7. SHOT: CLOSE/MEDIUM/LONG: father and daughter play hide and seek amongst the art installations. *-Option 2. SHOT LONG MEDIUM CLOSE: Daughter stands in a doorway of an abandoned shack.
4. Salton Sea North Beach 4:30 pm route 111 98900 block near fire station
3. Salton Sea North Beach 4:30 pm route 111 98900 block near fire station
1. Salton Sea North Beach 4:30 pm route 111 98900 block near fire station
44. 19455 Cooper Rd and Eldorado, Whitewater, CA 92282 (near Garnet Windmills Palm Springs) 8:30 am
27. Bombay Beach Salton Sea "Bus Stop" 11:00 am
43. 19455 Cooper Rd and Eldorado, Whitewater, CA 92282 (near Garnet Windmills Palm Springs) 8:30 am
17. Bombay Beach Salton Sea 11:00 am
