From what I understand. Everything on your blog is copyright of you. So I wrote this screenplay and script and I want to make sure that nobody steals it or calls it theirs. So I'm putting it up here. I'll remove it from here after I'm done with the shooting and editing
Story
Scene 1
I woke up today morning and had a cup of tea. Nothing New. I got my stuff and started my bike. Nothing New. Just when I thought it was going to be just another day, something caught my attention. I saw this tree and for some reason, the leaves looked . . . exceptionally green.
This got me thinking and today it had me obsessing about the colour green.
Scene 2
I try to ignore it as I make my way through the always endless stream of cars but traffic light turns from green to red. Green means go. Going implies moving and movement. Movements take you forward. Moving forward means progress. Green indirectly means progress. There that guy, do you see him, he’s wearing a green military fatigue print. Green fatigues are used to camouflage people in areas of thick vegetation. Fatigues are worn by soldiers in times of war. . . where people die. Green helps people kill other people. Though I don’t think that that guy was about to kill anybody or had the intention to do so. People probably wear green because looking at green things is good for your eyes or so I was told as a kid. I don’t know how far this is true but green money in my hands only seems to be really good for my eyes.
Scene 3
People at my workplace, I see them go green with envy. Becoming envious only makes you unhappy about what you have or makes you think about what you don’t. Green is associated with jealousy and being jealous, I guess. I still don’t understand why it’s called a green eyed monster. I wonder what Shakespeare was thinking when he coined the term.
Scene 4
Due to the environment, we are told to go green any way we can. Some friends told me about a guy who literally went green. He turned green before he threw up. Poor guy had too much to drink. Green is an indication of sickness then.
Scene 5
People can turn green huh? Bruce Banner turns green when he gets angry. Then he turns into the Hulk. Wouldn’t that be great You turn green, wreak havoc everywhere and then blame it on somebody else. Green becomes a form of escape. I suppose it must be, the Green Arrow and the Green Lantern are heroes who have integrated the colour green as part of their identity to help people. But then there is also the Green Goblin who is Spider-man’s greatest enemy and is a villain. And what about the Skrull, they are aliens who are evil and want to control Earth. They also have green skin. Aliens used to be called little green men. I wonder if there is a connection.
Scene 6
For some reason, most of the girls I see tend to stay away from the colour green when it comes to their cosmetics. I’d like to se a woman with a full head of green hair or green face make-up or just green nail polish. Till date, I’ve not even seen even one of these things on a woman but I would like to. I wonder how many gods are green in colour. Krishna and Shiva are blue, Satan is portrayed red. Gods seem to stay away from the colour green to the best of my knowledge. Though in Ireland, they celebrate St. Patrick’s Day where for one whole day, one whole country pretty much venerates the colour green. To them, green is good.
Scene 7
What about green as a colour then? Well it is in the middle of a rainbow, just look at it. A rainbow is VIBGYOR. Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red. Three colours on the left and three colours on the right. I guess green then becomes an ambiguous fence sitter in a prism, an in-between. There are so many more green things out there and green means so much but why should it mean anything at all and can anybody actually have green?
Scene 8
I’m going to have my green now. It’s night so I’m away from the sun’s ultra VIOLET rays. My green is wrapped in white, gets rid of my BLUES, makes my eyes RED, it makes Coldplay’s YELLOW sound great and turns BLACK and GREY after burning bright ORANGE. This is grass that makes everything greener on my side.
Screenplay
Scene 1
Bedsheet thrown aside. Head raises from pillow. (Hair is only seen rising upwards). Tea being sipped. Shirt Buttoned. Belt tightened. Keys grabbed. Helmet grabbed. Keys in ignition being turned. Helemt looks upwards. Reflection is seen in sunglasses of leaves. Then the leaves are seen. Zoom in slowly.
Scene 2
Traffic Light turns from green to red. Mirror being checked and adjusted. Person walking by wearing green fatigues on their body. Camera frame stops. Frame zooms in on the fatigues. Stock Footage of soldiers being trained while wearing military fatigues. Complete Darkness but a hand is seen picking up a gun (top view). Then side view of same hand raising the gun straight and into the frame. Front view of the barrel of the gun. Gun Fires.
Cut back to rear view of the mirror where frame stopped. Frames continue as normal and camera zooms out. Cut to open palms of a persons hand. Stop motion of many 500 rupee notes piling on top of each other. Half a mouth is seen turning into a closed mouth smile. Shot of eyes going wider.
Scene 3
Location: Office. View from behind narrators head with only his shoulders seen as he steps into frame. The frame shows two women and one man. The man is further in front. Camera shuttling between the subjects now: One woman is drinking coffee from a mug and the other is sitting at a computer. Both are looking at the guy doing his own thing. Coffee drinking girl now realizes that other girl is also looking and turns her head to look at computer girl. Computer girl now realizes that coffee girl is looking at her so she also turns away from guy and looks at coffee drinking girl. They briefly make eye contact then both turn away to do their own thing. Computer girl quickly looks up to send an evil glance in coffee girls direction. Coffee girl rolls her eyes in the opposite direction of the guy.
Scene 4
Main character has a semi-placid, semi-interested look on his face as two other guys are looking at another guy talk very earnestly. Talking guy puts one hand to his stomach and another to his mouth to cover it to show puking. Cut to stop-motion of another guy in a bathroom about to throw-up. Angle changes to show him throw up in a toilet in normal frames.
Scene 5
Keys turn in the lock. Door opens. Keys are dropped on table. Out of focus shot of main character plopping down in couch. Angle change to show him watching the Hulk transform. Next angle changes to show his comic books next to him as he picks them up. Over the shoulder angle of the comics mentioned being shown. The character then looks up from the comics to see the alien on a skateboard resting against a wall.
Scene 6
Girl mannequin head is seen. Stop-motion now of green wig appears then Green eye-shadow, then green blush, then finally green lipstick and finally green nail polish. Mannequin is shown to either be a picture in a tab on mozilla on a computer or he is putting the mannequin down on a table.
Variable Scene: Either show images of Krishna then Shiva then Satan etc. shown in Mozilla tabs or a silhouette of him standing in front and snapping his fingers to change an image each time.
Scene 7
He goes to sit at a table where a CD is seen turned upside down next to a sheet of paper. The word VIBGYOR is written in semi-stop-motion. Then Camera holds still in new angle to show a hand laying out paint bottles or paintbrush smearing a different colour below each letter. Hand reaching in to pick up a CD and then camera shows the prism of light moving on the CD.
Scene 8
View from the roach end of a joint but only showing the paper in the frame as weed drops into the semi-circularly curved paper. Stop-motion of the indigo and blue colours disappearing from the frame. Red eyes blinking. Hand lifts up Coldplays album turns around and then cut to the song Yellow being focused on. Ash falls onto an ashtray (top view). Shot of the burning end of a joint when a drag is being taken. Final shot is a single marijuana leaf falling onto a blank white background.
Story
Scene 1
I woke up today morning and had a cup of tea. Nothing New. I got my stuff and started my bike. Nothing New. Just when I thought it was going to be just another day, something caught my attention. I saw this tree and for some reason, the leaves looked . . . exceptionally green.
This got me thinking and today it had me obsessing about the colour green.
Scene 2
I try to ignore it as I make my way through the always endless stream of cars but traffic light turns from green to red. Green means go. Going implies moving and movement. Movements take you forward. Moving forward means progress. Green indirectly means progress. There that guy, do you see him, he’s wearing a green military fatigue print. Green fatigues are used to camouflage people in areas of thick vegetation. Fatigues are worn by soldiers in times of war. . . where people die. Green helps people kill other people. Though I don’t think that that guy was about to kill anybody or had the intention to do so. People probably wear green because looking at green things is good for your eyes or so I was told as a kid. I don’t know how far this is true but green money in my hands only seems to be really good for my eyes.
Scene 3
People at my workplace, I see them go green with envy. Becoming envious only makes you unhappy about what you have or makes you think about what you don’t. Green is associated with jealousy and being jealous, I guess. I still don’t understand why it’s called a green eyed monster. I wonder what Shakespeare was thinking when he coined the term.
Scene 4
Due to the environment, we are told to go green any way we can. Some friends told me about a guy who literally went green. He turned green before he threw up. Poor guy had too much to drink. Green is an indication of sickness then.
Scene 5
People can turn green huh? Bruce Banner turns green when he gets angry. Then he turns into the Hulk. Wouldn’t that be great You turn green, wreak havoc everywhere and then blame it on somebody else. Green becomes a form of escape. I suppose it must be, the Green Arrow and the Green Lantern are heroes who have integrated the colour green as part of their identity to help people. But then there is also the Green Goblin who is Spider-man’s greatest enemy and is a villain. And what about the Skrull, they are aliens who are evil and want to control Earth. They also have green skin. Aliens used to be called little green men. I wonder if there is a connection.
Scene 6
For some reason, most of the girls I see tend to stay away from the colour green when it comes to their cosmetics. I’d like to se a woman with a full head of green hair or green face make-up or just green nail polish. Till date, I’ve not even seen even one of these things on a woman but I would like to. I wonder how many gods are green in colour. Krishna and Shiva are blue, Satan is portrayed red. Gods seem to stay away from the colour green to the best of my knowledge. Though in Ireland, they celebrate St. Patrick’s Day where for one whole day, one whole country pretty much venerates the colour green. To them, green is good.
Scene 7
What about green as a colour then? Well it is in the middle of a rainbow, just look at it. A rainbow is VIBGYOR. Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red. Three colours on the left and three colours on the right. I guess green then becomes an ambiguous fence sitter in a prism, an in-between. There are so many more green things out there and green means so much but why should it mean anything at all and can anybody actually have green?
Scene 8
I’m going to have my green now. It’s night so I’m away from the sun’s ultra VIOLET rays. My green is wrapped in white, gets rid of my BLUES, makes my eyes RED, it makes Coldplay’s YELLOW sound great and turns BLACK and GREY after burning bright ORANGE. This is grass that makes everything greener on my side.
Screenplay
Scene 1
Bedsheet thrown aside. Head raises from pillow. (Hair is only seen rising upwards). Tea being sipped. Shirt Buttoned. Belt tightened. Keys grabbed. Helmet grabbed. Keys in ignition being turned. Helemt looks upwards. Reflection is seen in sunglasses of leaves. Then the leaves are seen. Zoom in slowly.
Scene 2
Traffic Light turns from green to red. Mirror being checked and adjusted. Person walking by wearing green fatigues on their body. Camera frame stops. Frame zooms in on the fatigues. Stock Footage of soldiers being trained while wearing military fatigues. Complete Darkness but a hand is seen picking up a gun (top view). Then side view of same hand raising the gun straight and into the frame. Front view of the barrel of the gun. Gun Fires.
Cut back to rear view of the mirror where frame stopped. Frames continue as normal and camera zooms out. Cut to open palms of a persons hand. Stop motion of many 500 rupee notes piling on top of each other. Half a mouth is seen turning into a closed mouth smile. Shot of eyes going wider.
Scene 3
Location: Office. View from behind narrators head with only his shoulders seen as he steps into frame. The frame shows two women and one man. The man is further in front. Camera shuttling between the subjects now: One woman is drinking coffee from a mug and the other is sitting at a computer. Both are looking at the guy doing his own thing. Coffee drinking girl now realizes that other girl is also looking and turns her head to look at computer girl. Computer girl now realizes that coffee girl is looking at her so she also turns away from guy and looks at coffee drinking girl. They briefly make eye contact then both turn away to do their own thing. Computer girl quickly looks up to send an evil glance in coffee girls direction. Coffee girl rolls her eyes in the opposite direction of the guy.
Scene 4
Main character has a semi-placid, semi-interested look on his face as two other guys are looking at another guy talk very earnestly. Talking guy puts one hand to his stomach and another to his mouth to cover it to show puking. Cut to stop-motion of another guy in a bathroom about to throw-up. Angle changes to show him throw up in a toilet in normal frames.
Scene 5
Keys turn in the lock. Door opens. Keys are dropped on table. Out of focus shot of main character plopping down in couch. Angle change to show him watching the Hulk transform. Next angle changes to show his comic books next to him as he picks them up. Over the shoulder angle of the comics mentioned being shown. The character then looks up from the comics to see the alien on a skateboard resting against a wall.
Scene 6
Girl mannequin head is seen. Stop-motion now of green wig appears then Green eye-shadow, then green blush, then finally green lipstick and finally green nail polish. Mannequin is shown to either be a picture in a tab on mozilla on a computer or he is putting the mannequin down on a table.
Variable Scene: Either show images of Krishna then Shiva then Satan etc. shown in Mozilla tabs or a silhouette of him standing in front and snapping his fingers to change an image each time.
Scene 7
He goes to sit at a table where a CD is seen turned upside down next to a sheet of paper. The word VIBGYOR is written in semi-stop-motion. Then Camera holds still in new angle to show a hand laying out paint bottles or paintbrush smearing a different colour below each letter. Hand reaching in to pick up a CD and then camera shows the prism of light moving on the CD.
Scene 8
View from the roach end of a joint but only showing the paper in the frame as weed drops into the semi-circularly curved paper. Stop-motion of the indigo and blue colours disappearing from the frame. Red eyes blinking. Hand lifts up Coldplays album turns around and then cut to the song Yellow being focused on. Ash falls onto an ashtray (top view). Shot of the burning end of a joint when a drag is being taken. Final shot is a single marijuana leaf falling onto a blank white background.
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