It’s that time of year again, the time of the season, the time of new decision making, new ventures and new beginnings. This time of year most of us realize that all year long we’ve been chasing after some “other” reality” or “a better version” of ourselves, continuously trying to change. We look back and go: “I’m disappointed.”
“I regret doing that” “What was I thinking” This is a movie about Nick and Caren, a couple from Woodstock and it’s their time to …Move on
My name is Rowen Smith, I am a 26 year old Afrikaans South African writer.director.photographer from Cape Town, welcoming you to my Directors Treatment for I’m Moving Out, a 15 minute MumbleCore-IndieRomantic-Comedy Narrative Short Form Project, which I wrote in 2014,developed during 2015 and hope to Produce in 2016.
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Stor y. We follow the lives of Nick and Caren, who are romantically involved and have been for a few years already. Nick is a copywriter, while Caren is a freelance designer and part time-waitress, They live together in an apartment in Upper Woodstock, and travel to work everyday, in the heart of the city bowl, a good couple, reckless and free but can they commit to each other?
Are they ready for the next step?
Themes. Themes that spark ideas within the way that the script is written and the story is directed include; The Urbanism & Art scene from Woodstock, Modernist Capitalism from Johannesburg, Social Culture from our Generation Y audience, Street & Nightlife from Longstreet and grunge realism raw street photography.
Urbanism & Art
Modernist Capitalism
Social Culture
Street & Nightlife
Grudge Realism
Our two lead are Nick and Caren who are dating and they are friends with Matt and Sarah who are also dating. With this short film we will capture the Alternative English Cape Town Subculture and how our English society challenges to modem newmedia status quo. We delve into the their lives and go on this journey of closure with them. How they move out, and move on.
The Character s.
The Cape Town City Bowl. Upper Woodstock. Corporate Cape Town and urban Long Street. Fast Paced Sandton City and the Laid Back Durban Beach Front.
The Setting will illustrate a young, upcoming, vibrant, trendy, South Africa where our characters discover themselves in, and are actively participating in the world where corporate meets culture and & design.
Settin g.
Locations. Johannesburg, Gauteng
Durban Promenade, KZN
Cape Town City Bowl
Urban Architecture, CT, JHB, DNB
Cape Town, Western Cape
Street Photography, CT, JHB, DNB
This film to look like the sounds of Dave Brubeck ’Take Five” and “Dead Priests II, from Jay-Z. With strong French New Wave influences and urban street realism, with cinematography that depicts Cape Town as A City that’s a city of stature, a city that’s alive and happening.
Cinematograph y.
Shooting Style. We’re going for a Raw – Street Grunge Hand Held Objective Classical Realism with a slightly breathing curiosity into our characters lives, always watching, always following, always interested in their emotional state of being.
Art Department & Design.
The Art Department, Wardrobe & Styling, Editing, Visual FX and Illustrative Design will all creatively collaborate to encapsulate our characters in this world, with influences from Urban & Industrial Design , Art & Illustrative exhibitions and street style fashion trends. Ultimately the creative design of this film should contextualize the world of our South African Generation-Y, New Media driven audience.
The Sound and Music of this film will relate directly to our audience where Music will be a commercial marketing tool, commerciality if you will‌
The chosen soundtrack will be incorporate trendy illustrative photographic design as a digital advertising mechanism The Sound will be real. Realist and raw, the Sounds of Cape Town and the City Bowl.
Sound . Music
@Cignalhill Creative Productions, we work with creative professionals in and around South Africa and for this project, we are going to use skilled filmmakers from Cape Town, Johannesburg.
With an AFDA Film School Approach, utilizing freelancers from AFDA Durban, AFDA Cape Town and AFDA Johannesburg where needed, while sticking with a small skeleton crew to keep production costs at a minimum. Each key crew member will have a pre-production, production and post production responsibility to uphold, and will take credit in the completion of the project, creative exposure for their creative skillsets when the film is screened locally and abroad.
The Crew .
Watch the Producers Pitch Film. To make things easier and more explanatory, I’ve made a producers pitch film, which can be viewed on my Vimeo page. www.vimeo.com/rowensmith Check out the direct link Below. https://vimeo.com/150526900
We also have a facebook page (to be launched from April 2016) and will run the marketing campaign from our blog on cignalhill.com www.facebook.com/Immovingout
I’m Moving Out on 31 December 2014 when the first draft was written. It took us the whole of 2015 where we did a lot of market research about the wants and needs, norms and expectations of our new-media driven generation and with this project we believe that will learn something insightful about our South African Short Film Audience while identifying & engaging with an English South African Short Film Audience.
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Thank you for reading. I’m Moving Out, is the first official short form narrative project for Cignalhill.com, Cignalhill Creative Productions. We wish you the best of 2016, and hope that you would be part of our journey throughout the year with producing this project and other film and photographic work.
We are excited for your response.