Monday, 10 December 2012

War of the Worlds script

As the process of reading a script and imaging sounds to record that we had practiced in the workshop on the 8/11 had worked for me before, I decided to do it again with the War of the Worlds project.


Pieces of wood fall from the hole as a robot camera comes floating
down into the hole. Ray hides behind the stairs. The camera eye
opens and lights turn on for it.


Rachel is hiding as well. The camera looks around the couch.
Ray moves as to not be seen by it moving around the couch. It
sees a rat and quickly follows it for a few seconds. Ray and
Harland exchange looks as Ray runs toward Rachel to hide with
her.


The robot continues checking out the basement. Harland grabs
an axe to cut off the camera from it's limb. Ray shakes his head
no to get him to stop. Ray silently does expressions to convince
him not to.


Harland goes towards ray so they can hide together. Harland almost
makes it before he thuds against a cabinet full of glass containers
which clang together. The robot hears this and turns around toward
the noise. They run to a different spot.


Robot gets closer...


Ray puts a mirror in front of the doorway to trick the robot
into seeing another robot. The camera looks over the mirror and
sees nothing.


It turns around just as... Rachel's boot slides, making a noise.
The robot views into the boot that is hanging out. It looks behind
the mirror to find just a boot sitting there. Ray, Rachel and
Harland are in the middle of the basement. A sight of relief
comes as the robot camera exit's out of the hole.



The atmos of the cellar is needed with the sound of wood being heard falling down, although I don't think that sound will be needed for my clip, the sound of the alien is very important as it 'floats' down the hole so needs a continuous sound that is lulling and pulsating. The sound of Ray is needed as he is hiding so maybe breathing recordings and the sound of him moving slightly. The alien opening its head and the lights being turned on need recording. Rachel is introduced as hiding so breathing is needed and maybe some clothes movement will be recorded. The sound of the rat running will be recorded as well as the footsteps of Rachel running to Ray.
The rest of the scene has been cut out of my clip but the sound of the robot getting closer can be manipulated with volume. The sound of the mirror being picked up and put down will need to be recorded and the sound of Rachel's boot sliding out, quite loud as the script actually mentions it making a noise. The sound of the robot exiting the hole will also need to be recorded.

Taken from http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/War-of-the-Worlds.html


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