UPDATE part deux.

By the way, I haven't exactly finished the song part yet, but it's not as crucial, as the recording doesn't have to be of the exact same piano as in the piece.

HOPEFULLY I can actually write a song (I didn't realize it was this hard...), otherwise, I have a couple of people I'm gonna ask who can definitely write music and play piano.

Once again, comments, suggestions, etc...

Thank you!!

UPDATE.

So.
Hi.
MAJOR issues on the project.
I just found out today that my major prop, the piano, will be leaving my house sometime between Monday and Thursday of next week.
So all my shooting has to be done between NOW and Sunday night.

SO. I'm trying to enlist my friends to be in the piece, alot of them have said yes, and I'm gonna shoot it all Saturday and Sunday (HOPEFULLY.).
I also wanna try to shoot the people moving the piano, as a conclusion to the piece, so it makes sense. I don't know if I'll use it, but I'm gonna shoot it anyway (if they let me, of course).

So yeah. The only big problem I have now, in addition to the time constraint, is that I haven't found any little kids to put in the piece. So the idea might have to be changed slightly, but I'll work with it.


Any suggestions or comments, especially any tips on how to shoot an entire piece in less than 48 hours, is GREATLY, GREATLY appreciated.

Final idea? Hopefully.

Thank you to everyone who commented on the last blog.

I think I've figured out what I'm doing. Maybe...

So. Piano.
I want the piece to span one full day. So it'll start one morning and end at sunrise the next morning.
Also, I want to action around the piano to move in a similar way - it'll start out with little kids, easy music, stuff like that, and progress to teenage-sort of kids, harder music, older stuff.
So it'll be one day and sort of one lifetime (crazy metaphors and stuff...).
As far as sound goes, I want there to be probably one song that cuts in and out the entire piece. There
will be shots of actual piano playing, then it will cut to the plot-like shots - people at the piano and doing stuff around the piano.
So now, I just have to find actors and write a song.



As usual, comments and stuff are great.

I have legitimate ideas...

exciting.

So. Joe wants me to tell people my idea and get feedback. But I don't want to... so I'll blog it instead.


I'm moving in about three months, and I have to get rid of the piano I've had since I was about six or seven. And I REALLY like it.
SO. The piece is about a piano, but the piano is a sort of metaphor for everything being left behind... memories, etc.
The piano is the centerpiece of the story. I want to show sort of the development and "life" of the piano... I want to somehow show a little kid playing, then have a teenager-sort-of person who can actually play playing it. I also want to have different items and music on top of the piano... starting with little kid kind of things and really easy beginners music all the way to things like cell phones. car keys, and really difficult music.

I want there to be cuts between shots of things like that - people at the piano, things on the piano - and actual shots of the piano being played, with piano music going along with it.

The problem: Joe wants words. I don't. I think it would be awkward and rough. And I don't know what the words should be (Joe wants me to interview my parents about the piano and about me playing it when I was little. I don't like that idea that much).

So I have to figure out the sound and what I'm doing for it.

At the end of the piece, I want to have a shot of the piano in an empty room, and if the timing works out, have a shot of movers coming in to move the piano and taking it away. The final shot will probably empty corner of the room where the piano was, probably during the morning so you can see the shadows and light coming in from the window and stuff... it'll look cool.

That's the basic idea.

Any comments or suggestions of any kind, good or bad, are incredibley appreciated.