Sort of a combination of Lester and Ricky and Jane and Carolyn all at once.

Your grade will come from

• Lola presentation
• A = title, written definition, good voiceover explaining concept, maybe second clip to deepen concept
• B = all above but inconsistent
• C = all finished, but elements missing
• D = some finished, but not all
• You Can Count on Me Quickshow
• You Can Count on Me paper

two film conventions
two noticings

Pull out four clips from You Can Count on Me to show the class.

Two of them show a film convention that you have something to say about what the each do to affect the feeling of the scene/the way we view the character/the way it we react/etc.

Two of them are just things you noticed that you think will be interesting to the class.

Due: beginning of class, Monday, October 17

Watch the kid’s face as he finds out who Luke’s father is.

 

Red Scene 1                                        

LOLA: Manni?

MANNI: *hmm?*

LOLA: Do you love me?

MANNI: Sure, I do

LOLA: How can you be so sure?

MANNI: I don’t know. I just am.

LOLA: I could be some other girl.

MANNI: *uh uh*

LOLA: Why not?

MANNI: Because you’re the best.

LOLA: The best what?

MANNI: The best girl.

LOLA: Of all the girls in the world?

MANNI: Sure.

LOLA: How do you know?

MANNI: I just do.

LOLA: You think so.

MANNI: Ok, I think so.

LOLA: You see?

MANNI: What?

LOLA: You aren’t sure.

MANNI: Are you nuts or what?

LOLA: What if you never met me?

MANNI: What do you mean?

LOLA: You’d be telling the same thing to someone else.

MANNI: Okay, if you don’t want to hear it.

LOLA: I don’t want to hear anything. I want to know how you feel.

MANNI: Okay, my feelings say… that you’re the best.

LOLA: Who is “your feelings” anyway?

MANNI: Its me. *pause* My heart.

LOLA: Your heart says, “Hi, Manni. She’s the one.”

MANNI: Exactly.

LOLA: And you say… “Thanks for the information. See you around.”

MANNI: Exactly.

LOLA: And you do whatever your heart says?

MANNI: Well, it really doesn’t “say” anything. I don’t know. It just feels.

LOLA: So what does it feel now?

MANNI: That someone’s asking rather stupid questions.

LOLA: Man, you aren’t taking me seriously.

MANNI: Lola, what’s wrong? You want to leave me?

LOLA: I don’t know. *Pause* I think I have to make a decision.

 

*Both look up at red camera and fades back to Lola laying on the ground*

 

LOLA: But I don’t want to. I don’t want to leave.

 

Red Scene 2                                     

MANNI: Lola.

LOLA: *hmm?*

MANNI: What would you do if I died?

LOLA: I wouldn’t let you die.

MANNI: Yeah, well… what if I were fatally ill?

LOLA: I’d find a way.

MANNI: What if I were in a coma, and the doc said, “One more day”?

LOLA: I’d throw you into the ocean — shock therapy.

MANNI: What if I were dead anyway?

LOLA: What do you want to hear?

MANNI: Come on. Tell me.

LOLA: I’d go to the Isle of Rugen and cast your ashes to the wind.

MANNI: And then?

LOLA: I don’t know. It’s a stupid question.

MANNI: I know what you’d do. You’d forget me.

LOLA: No!

MANNI: Sure you would. What else could you do? Sure, you’d mourn for a few weeks. Not a bad idea. And everybody’s real compassionate… and everything’s so incredibly sad and everyone feels sorry for you. You can show everyone how strong you are. “What a great woman,” they’ll say. “She really pulls herself together instead of crying all day.” And all at once this really nice guy with green eyes shows up. And he’s super sensitive, listens to you all day. And you can talk his ear off. And you can tell him how tough things are for you… and that you have to look after yourself and don’t know what’s gonna happen… and blah, blah, blah. Then you’d hop onto his lap and cross me off your list. That’s how it goes.

LOLA: Manni.

MANNI: What?

LOLA: You haven’t died yet.

*Lola keeps looking at him while he stares at red camera and fades back to him being held by Lola*

 

MANNI: No?

Who needs Vegas Pro? Final Cut? We’ve got YouTube’s editor.

Actually, this could be kind of helpful.

1. Open the program
2. Get the file:
   1. File > Open Files… and locate the movie file you are going to work with.
3. Locate the in and out points for the clip you want to make. (Tap “i” for the in-point and “o” for the outpoint and you should see the numbers change accordingly on the bottom right of the screen.)
4. The best way to ROUGHLY get to the in and out points is to drag the little hour-glass-shaped scrubber with your mouse.
5. The best way to PRECISELY locate the in and out points is then to use the left and right arrow keys to go backward or forward 1 frame (that is, 1/30th of a second) at a time, until you have located precisely where you want the clip to start and end.
6. With your in- and out-point set, go to File > Export to MPEG-4 > Compression = Apple MPEG4 Compressor > Quality = 100% > Make MP4 (click image to enlarge)
7. Then make sure you give it a name that is SPECIFIC to that clip only and
8. SAVE to your Movies folder.

Quick way to get a new desktop. I’ll show you later how to get the clock out or use your own images.

 

Get it. Install it.

Great production stills on Flickr.