The Mill Park Documentary By Rowen Smith
The Mill Street Skate Park Short Film Series
DRAFT 1 31-05-2014
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EXT. GARDENS SKATE PARK - DAWN: MONTAGE: We open with a series of montage cutaways of of the completed Gardens Skate Park. SLIDER SEQUENCES: No one is there and it feels dead and lifeless.
HOLIDAY MURRAY Studio Score Music
MONTAGE PART A: MOUNTAIN SKATING: A group of skaters skating on table mountain. **This will inter cut throughout the documentary as a visual theme. URBAN DESIGN BRANCH - DAY: Establishing Shots of the Urban Design Branch CT. CUTAWAY: slider cutaways of the different projects and office layout of Urban Design Branch CT. MEDIUM CLOSE UP: we Interview Gerrit Strydom and his team of Urban Designers who designed the Skate Park.
GERRIT STRYDOM & URBAN DESIGN TEAM 1. What is the Gardens Skate Park and how did it all start? 2. What is the Build Trust International Play Scapes Competition and when did you find out that you won? 3. What happened next? and how did the whole project come about? 4. What were the Setbacks and limitations to the design of the park and the actual construction? 5. Did you think the park will attract so much attention and tell us about the dozens of articles about the park.
MONTAGE PART B:: CITY SKATING: Skating in short market street, rail tricks and Long and Long Market & Green Market Square.
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SPYDA RAMPS WORKSHOP - DAY: Establishing Shots of Spyda Ramps. Establishing Shots of Ramps they have built**ON LOCATION VISUALS. CLOSE UPS: Visuals of the Ramp Builders tool kits and workshop. MONTAGE: visuals of the ramp builders and the different stages of building these ramps. MEDIUM CLOSE UP: Interview the head of Construction at Spyda Ramps.
SPYDA RAMPS HOD 1. who are you and what do you do? 2. How are you involved with the Gardens Skate Park? 3. Take me through the process of Building these ramps. 4. Who did you work with when building these ramps and how did the construction process go? 5. What made you do this? What excited you about this project and what do you see for the skating scene in Cape Town in the future.
INT. CAPE TOWN DESIGN CAPITAL DAY: MASTER: Visuals of the Cape Design Capital Office, with a skater skating past frame.
DESIGN CAPITAL COUNSELOR 1. Who are you and what do you do? 2. Do you know about the Gardens Skate Park? 3. Tell us about how the Design Capital is Involved with the Skating scene in Cape Town. 4. What positive implications will the skate park bring to the initiatives of the Design Capital? 5. Now that the Skating scene is
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CLIVE’S STUDIO - DAY: MONTAGE: Visuals of Clive skating in the streets to his creative workspace. MEDIUM CLOSE UP: Interview Clive Crofton, one of the designers. CUTAWAY: Clive’s Portfolio on his designs.
CLIVE CROFTON 1. who are you and what do you do? 2. How are you involved with the Gardens Skate Park? 3. When did this project start? 4. What complications were there with the design of the park? 5. What made you do this? What excited you about this project and what do you see for the skating scene in Cape Town in the future. 6. Tell us about the articles that state the conflict with the changes of the original design of the skate park to the actual construction at the moment?
MONTAGE PART C: SKATE SHOPS: A series of cutting visuals of various skate shops and skating merchandise and brands. NAMMIC ENGINEERING - DAY: Visuals of the bulldozers and construction vehicles at Nammic Engineering HQ.
4 VIDEO MEDIUM CLOSE UP: Interview Head of Construction at Nammic Engineering.
AUDIO NAMMIC ENGINEERING 1. Who are you and what do you do? 2. Tell us about the process of building a skate park in terms of construction and it’s work flow. 3. When did you start building? 4. When did you anticipate the park to be completed 5. How did the Weather play a role and what other factors played a big part in the construction schedule?
INTERCUT WITH: C2C ENGINEERING - DAY: Visuals of C2C Engineering Head Office. CUTAWAY: Exterior Building Signs that read: C2C Engineering. MEDIUM CLOSE UP: Interview C2C Engineering HOD.
C2C ENGINEERING HOD 1. How were you involved in building the skate park? 2. How many jobs did the construction process create? 3. what was an average day like while building on site? 4. What feedback have you gotten from the Urban Design Brand and the Design Capital? 5. What conflicts exist between you and the designers about the blue printed design and the actual constructed final design?
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MONTAGE PART D: Visuals of the workers doing their final stage of building (Must Shoot 1-10 JUNE) CITY STREETS - DAY : MEDIUM CLOSE UP: In the Streets Of Cape Town, interviewing the Skaters of the City.
SKATERS 1. Do you know about the Gardens Skate Park? 2. What do you think it will look like when it’s complete? 3. What do you like most about the park? 4. What do you think about the skating scene in Cape Town? 5. Why are you a skateboarder?
MONTAGE PART E: RAPID CUTTING + STILLS IMAGERY: (How to make it in America Title Sequence Reference) visuals of Cape Town Visuals of Skaters skating through the city towards the park. SESSIONS MAGAZINE - DAY: Establishing Shots of the Kloof area. MEDIUM CLOSE UP: Interview Head Editor at Sessions Magazine.
SESSIONS MAGAZINE EDITOR 1. Who are you and what do you do? 2. So you know about the park and all the hype around it? What’s the whole marketing strategy behind it from a publishers side of things? 3. Tells us more about endorsement skating in Cape Town. 4. Who’s all connected with who and how big is the skating scene
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DOPE INDUSTRIES - DAY: MONTAGE: a series of Shots of the DOPE BRAND. Shirts, shoes. caps etc.. MEDIUM CLOSE UP: Interview with Johan Beukes.
JOHAN BEUKES. 1. Who are you and what do you do? 2. Who is your market and how big is it? 3. Tell us more about the DOPE BRAND and how it all started. 4. Where is DOPE going in the Future? 5. From reading the Sessions magazine, I see a lot of Collaborations happening with Dope? Tell us more about the skating collaborations and endorsed DOPE Skaters.
MONTAGE PART F: TIME LAPSES of Cape Town CUTAWAYS of Nature(Company Gardens, De Waal Park, Kirstenbosch, Table Mountain Hiking) CUT-IN: We cut into the City with Traffic Lights, Cars Driving, Newspaper Stands, Long Street, Kloof Street leading to-GARDENS SKATE PARK - DUSK: MASTER: The Empty Gardens Skate Park, just where we left it at the opening scene.
7 VIDEO MUSICAL SCORE* Then out of nowhere...a skater skates into the park. He Stops and stands in awe of the park, turns around to see his group of friends skating into the park as well. He smiles and skates on... WIDE: the park is full of skaters TEXT: Logos and Credits
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