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Surviving the times!

Surviving the Market – With Assistance
Many poor people have managed to stay in gentrifying neighborhoods. Not surprisingly, residents appreciate many of the changes taking place in their neighborhoods – increased safety, less overt drug dealing, better transportation, improved governmental responsiveness and more stores. After all, many of these long-term residents have been working to make just these improvements for decades. But they don’t remain merely to appreciate the improvements occurring in their neighborhoods. They remain because these are their communities. Their families, networks and lives are all there.

Short Clip

Revision

 

Brian Kingston: (graphic designer) moving out of his rough neighborhood has always been a great dream. Brian’s only problem Veronica Mitchell his girlfriend who doesnt understand him anymore.

Veronica Mitchell: (receptionist for NYC Dept. of Employment) Veronica doesn’t trust her boyfriend Brian. She feels he cheating on her with another woman, because he moved away from there old neighborhood.

Screen Test

I wanted to conduct a screen with the actors. I found the script was lacking and I needed to revise my shot selection.

Environment Style Frame

StoryBeats – “Untitled”

- B enters the his room with eviction notice in hand

- pictures of graphic design layouts and awards are on the room wall

- sits down at his computer desk

- Looks at the letter with a smug grin on his face

- Notice reads $3500 unpaid for period of four months

- B starts to stare at computer screen to read classifies section.

- B to rub his eyes as he falls into a cat nap

- a small child appears in strange land

- the child begins to run

- as he runs the character spots a image of drug dealers

- he runs away from the drug dealers

- as he goes in other direction he sees a young pregnant women

- the child keeps running until and sees others being evicted from their apartments

-  people start moving into the building with wearing computer bags and drinking latte’s

- he runs and sees young business types

- everything begins to spin around the young child

- he stops and yells as the world around him turns to weird mesh

- everything goes black

- B wake’s up from dream and stares heavily at eviction notice

- then write a check and leaves the room

- fade to black / credit roll

Story Treatment # 3

B is a Graphic Designer who is facing eviction because of withheld rent payments.  He has utter discontent for his current community and wants to run away. Upon reading an eviction notice, B drifts into this imaginary realm of urban abstractions and is forced to face himself as a child.  On this journey B starts to realize were the source of all his design acalaids have began.

B The Bug! 3D Character Model