Friday, February 29, 2008

Brainstorming and Clockwork

I need you like a heart needs a beat, that's nothing new
I loved you with a fire red, now it's turning blue
Sorry like the angel heaven let me think was you
- dedicated to the one who is sitting outside the door of my heart


Two movie script ideas:

Me and my friends who have been together for awhile and know each other so closely . . . the story of our lives
    • Title: Livery among Friends, Clowns of Ann Arbor, Keep it movin', Bring 'em Out, Willowtree Pimps and Players
    • Subject: A group of people meet each other by divine appointment and affect each other's lives through their college experience and for years to come
    • Category: College life/comedy
    • Characters: Fierceness, Aarbear, Parke, LaTova, Ginger Snap, Champ (other character code names to be determined)
Two sisters who are always getting into trouble
    • Title: Me and You, My Bond With You
    • Subject: Two sisters from different fathers must deal with their issues in their complicated families and must stick together through the messups and trials that they face
    • Category: Drama
    • Characters: Lillie - older sister, mature, sensible, always gets her sister out of trouble, smart, laid back; Brittenie - younger sister, fiery personality, smart mouth, always in trouble, street smart

More will be added later to these . . . which script should I write for Grad School?

Monday, February 18, 2008

Do you know where it is?

This song (Say All I Need) is so beautiful to me . . . it makes me feel like someone looked into my eyes, didn't turn away, and found the words and song of my heart. Sometimes these questions send me on some very unique soul searching trips. Especially these two questions:

  1. Do you know where your heart is? Do you think you can find it?
  2. Do you know where your love is? Do you think that you lost is?
This song I can put in infinite repeat and go places in my head. Places that help me sort out all the mess and garbage. I am already a big dreamer without any help so the motivation music REALLY takes me there.


One Republic - Say (All I Need)
Do you know where your heart is?
Do you think you can find it?
Or did you trade it for something
Somewhere better just to have it?
Do you know where your love is?
Do you think that you lost it?
You felt it so strong, but
Nothing's turned out how you wanted

Well, bless my soul
You're a lonely soul
Cause you won't let go
Of anything you hold

Well, all I need
Is the air I breathe
And a place to rest
My head

Do you know what your fate is?
And are you trying to shake it?
You're doing your best and
Your best look
You're praying that you make it

Well, bless my soul
You're a lonely soul
Cause you won't let go
Of anything you hold

Well, all I need
Is the air I breathe
And a place to rest
My head

I said I all I need
Is the air I breathe
And a place to rest
My head

Do you think you can find it?
Do you think you can find it?
Do you think you can find it?
Better than you had it
Do you think you can find it?
Do you think you can find it?
Do you think you can find it?
Yeah, better than you had it (Better than you had it)

I said I all I need
Is the air I breathe
And a place to rest
My head

I said I all I need
Is the air I breathe
And a place to rest
My head

Whenever the end is
Do you think you can see it?
Well, until you get there
Go on, go ahead and scream it
Just say it

Friday, February 15, 2008

Love?

disclaimer: all views and opinions read here are the opinion of the writer and not by the people who hosted the site or were in the process of it's makings.

Below is a scene that will take place in a movie where a female character will start off as a college student and then grow up and become a psychologist. Her life's goal is to find out about love . . . why people love, why people don't want to wait around for love, how many people can a person love, and at once?, if there is a such thing as true love and does God have it made so he created someone especially for another person . . .

I am making this movie because for years I have watched people and studied this and wonder why people do what they do in relationships. If I was an anthropologist, this would be my main focus, . . . on love. I don't know why I have a fascination with it, but hopefully me researching and planning to do this movie will help (btw, I don't plan to do it for awhile, but I'm starting early)

Hopefully as I get more practice with scripts and things, that the writing style will flow more and I will be able to do correct scene descriptions.

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The air is hot and her mind is full. She stares out at the world in front of her intensely . . . she isn't really watching them, and small movements are oblivious to her senses. She thinks about the world, about her friends. She thinks about all of their situations. She wonders to herself, "Why do people go through what they go through. Why can't we all just avoid the drama." She thinks about love and about the messiness of it. "Why can't people just meet that person, fall in love, and be done with it?" She wonders why there are the complications. She wonders when does God ever bring that person, the person who is the exact piece to someone's puzzle. The person who God created especially for that someone . . . and then she realizes, "people don't want to wait for that love." She shifts her feet and plays with her coffee cup in her hand.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Take Me As I Am

They are both alone. She is looking at him with red wet eyes. He's staring, like he's dreaming. He's listening, he's caring. She lifts to her face a sheet of paper she's been holding. It's wet with her tears, it weeps of her fears. She gives a slight sob as she starts to read . . . this is a part of her world, nothing like a fantasy. She wonders, "If he doesn't take this, then what I am doing?!? If he can't take me as I am, then who ever will." . . . She starts again to utter the syllables, and this time it comes out stronger, this time her voice grows more noble . . . she says:

Here I am, waiting . . . waiting for you to show me a part of your heart . . .
Waiting to catch a glimpse, of some love from inside
I wish you could see my soul, I wish you could feel it yearn,
So then I wouldn't seem so shy, when it comes to you and I
You strike me as someone so dear, so sweet, so full of strength
I watch how you fight through your pain, every time you pass my way
I would love to be apart, and support you through life
But you've got to let me in, and I've got to open up

I don't know what to do anymore, I've been hurt so much
I don't know how to say how I feel, I don't know how to share my world
I wonder if you'll be patient, and bear with all my trials
I wonder if you'll get tired of me, and not be there when I cry
I sometimes wind up all alone, with no one by my side
Even in my strong core, there's times I need somewhere to hide

I am fierce, I am strong, I am right, never wrong;
I speak up, I can be mean, I'll always be there, for anything;
I'll pull you, I'll fight with you, I will scream, I'll be in defiance towards you;
No games, that's my way, I'm sure, I don't like to waver;
I won't mess with your heart, and never decide, don't mess with mine, don't make me cry;
My soul sings, my brain dreams, my heart soars, my mouth can roar;
I have dreams, and I have goals, if you can stand me, you'll pay a toll;
because . . .

I AM superwoman: everyday, always, powerful AND strong! NO ONE can tear me down, NO ONE can take away my roots. My fierceness rides on in the think of the battle . . . For I AM a fierce superwoman, and I HAVE strength to do it all . . .

. . . she looks back up at him, to read his face. His eyes are steady, he makes no weird gaze. At that point it's over, she's lost something; nothing she needed, nothing to hold onto . . . her fear goes away, and she falls in love right then and there. "It is beautiful," she thinks as he leans in towards her to embrace her with strength. "This is lovely," she says, and they hold each other and watch the rain beat down . . . her heart begins to sound . . . she hears a thumping . . . she races . . . all the while he is steady. He is no prince charming, he is no hero, he is no savior, . . . what he represents, is the other half of her core, the one that was missing.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

"If you are what you say you are!"

Loving this song Superstar by Lupe Fiasco . . . I can see myself in this song five years from now strutting down some red carpet with some fly stilettos on and with my form fitting dress to show off some figure I would have worked towards. So now I will practice on little things, like the fashion shows here at UofM. I'm going to Noir this year. I plan on getting V.I.P. tickets early and I plan on looking beyond fabulous! So I will practice my strut there. People can say I'm arrogant but I don't care, every woman has the right to stroll down some red carpet or imagine herself doing so in all her individual beauty.

Superstar Video

Chorus
If you are what you say you are, a superstar

Then have no fear, the camera's is here
And the microphone's
And they wanna' know oh oh oh oh, yeah

2nd Chorus
If you are what you say you are, a superstar
Then have no fear, the crowd is here
And the lights are on
And they wanna show oh oh oh oh, yeah

In my head I am looking fly and walking down a red carpet that's in the hallway leading into the Michigan Ballroom. I am walking slow like the women in the video and I look just as beautiful. With me is my current love interest and also my boy Anthony. He's a future music/rap producer so he must practice his red carpet appearance as well. There are flashing lights everywhere and we give the most elite/I am it look. Me and my current love interest walk in to the area where the fashion show will be while Anthony stays behind to wait for the rest of the crew to arrive. (We all arrived at different times which is what boogie celebrities do and my crew is fly enough to work that!)

Ok, this definitely was a elite/arrogant type of entry, but we all have our urges right? And I am on the top, why can't I be proud. :-)

Below is what I am! (sorry for using aristocratic Jess!)
aristocratic
elite

Friday, February 1, 2008

The Fire is Red

I guess I'll be putting a lot of my thoughts in this blog . . . my randomness, my craziness, my dreams, and everything else that runs up in that moter of mine. So expect to be confused; expect beauty; and expect to dream . . . I am going to attempt to do like my true love right now and Dream Out Loud . . .




(Second verse of Apologize - One Republic)
I'd take another chance, take a fall
Take a shot for you
And I need you like a heart needs a beat
But it's nothin new I loved you with a fire red-
Now it's turning blue, and you say...
"Sorry" like the angel heaven let me think was you
But I'm afraid...


When I read this I think of different shots and scenes to a music video. Ok . . . let me break it down.

I'd take another chance, take a fall Take a shot for you
Basically the guy singing it (as the main character in the video) looking down at his feet while the girl who he is talking to is looking at his face trying to get him to look at her. She looks apologetic and seemingly wants him to stay, come back to her, or just wants him to talk.

And I need you like a heart needs a beat But it's nothin new
The shot cuts out the bulk of their face and you can see the bottom of their chins and their chest. The girl is putting her hand on his heart and he is putting his hand over hers. You see their chins come together and know that they are going to give a soft kiss to each other.

I loved you with a fire red-
You can see a man singing into a microphone (got this from another video someone made for Apologize http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePyRrb2-fzs) and there is a red background. He's in black though so you can only see his figure.

Now it's turning blue, and you say...
A girl is stretched and leaning her head all the way back almost like she is floating on air and there is a red thin sheet floating and moving with her. She is in a red environment. She looks enchanting.

"Sorry" like the angel heaven let me think was you But I'm afraid...
In this part I had an idea that the girl in the video was standing there in mist and she seemed beautiful like an angel but I don't like that. I want her to be on sitting on a bed wrapped in a sheet looking like she got caught in the act with the guy walking away from her upset at finding his girl cheating. The angle of the shot will first be on his back then on his front frame as he turns around and walks away . . . (I could decide to change the shot though)

video made my fan on Youtube