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Monday, November 13, 2006

15th day report: love writing

Today in the morning we discussed on dream of love, starting whit Khaled.
First we did some general consideration on the subject:
delicate argoment
love means lot of different things: love between mother and child, love of a man for his job,...
differences between love in television and love in the real life
differences between love in the town (Ramallah) and in the village (Biddu)

we had 5 ideas:

DOLLARS: it is about boys going at the female college to watch girls going out. We called it "dollars" because of the green scool dress.

AHMAD'S NOVEL: he is a writer who wrote a love novel, when he published it, the people of the village considered him a sovversive and forbid him to enter in the village. The idea is to shot him while he is reading a part of the book, he close it and he says that the book has been forbidden in Palestine.

LOVE STORY: a boy and a girl in love need to meet each other in Ramallah to avoid problems whit the conservative Biddu comunity of Biddu.

INTERNET LOVE: A boy print a photo of a girl found in internet, he gets in love whit this image and pretend to have a relation (singing songs to her, drawing his picture,...)

Finally we decided to make the Love story one.

Ahmad, Mohamed and Khaled discussed about how to write the SYNOPSIS (what is that, how to write it) and also some elements of screenplaying (storyboarding, continuity). We arrived to discuss how to shoot the film.

This is the synopsis:

The two characters exit from them houses in Biddu at the same time, but separately. They go trough the same streets, they jump in the same bus service and they sit separetely. She just gets a quick look to him. They jump out from the bus separetely, in the caos of Ramallah. He follows her from the distance, like a spy, zooming in trough the caos of the center. They walk almost in a hurry, in a tense atmosphere.

Now he waits in front of a restaurant, she appairs from the right. She stops. The street is desertic. No one around. Calm situation. He watches around to be sure no one is looking. She looks no worried anymore, but suddenly relaxed and happy. She achieves him, he is now also happy. Their hands calmly meet and hold going inside the resturant.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think the discussion about love has been both funny and bitter... I'm sorry I missed it.
anyway
the subject which with you came out (very good synopsis... compliments!) seems to be a fiction.
I don't discuss this choice (thoug I have to say i find fiction being more confortable than documentary... but I'm a documentary film maker, I don't pretend to be impartial ;)) but I'm rather curios about the issue:
if you were forced to make a documentary about love in Biddu, what the subject will be?

stefano

1:12 AM  

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