I was looking through the forums, and noticed that a lot of people wanted to make a low budget film, to get some simple experience.
But a lot of them didn't have a script or idea to start with. So I wrote this little script that shouldn't cost much to make.
Here's the Challenge. Pure directing. I'm wondering which low budget filmmaker can produce the best acted version of this. Submission deadline, sept 1. Prize. Mid level CG intro sequence for your next project. (about a 2k value)
Here's the script.
cop pulls over a car on the highway
conversation
Cop: Hello sir, do you know why I pulled you over?
Driver: Because only cops are allowed to pull people over? If one of the other drivers had pulled me over, that would have been a lot more unexpected
Cop: I mean do you know what traffic law you were breaking? Do you know how fast you were going?
Driver: I assume I was going the same speed as my car.
Cop: Do the plates on this car belong to this car?
Driver: you mean, like, in the metaphorical sense?
Cop: You think you're funny son?
A No, I don't think so. This girl lauged at one of my jokes once, but she had scoliosis, so I don't think it counts.
Cop: Have you been drinking sir?
A Oh yes, a pretty good amount.
Cop:what have you been drinking?
A caffine supplement
Cop: Excuse me
A You know, energy drinks that supplement your body's missing caffine and bull urine.
Cop:Is the drink you're describing alchoholic?
A I mean, It can be, you just add alcohol. Personally I find that to be true of a great many drinks. I think the real point of no return is when you're drink is already alchoholic, you can't make it more so by adding additional alchohol. If a glass of mixed drink is already full of alchohol, but still needs more, that glass of alchohol has a disease and should be taken to an aa meeting to avoid being drunk.
Cop:what's that sound coming from your trunk?
A That's not my trunk
Cop:you mind if I check the trunk son?
A is that code? If you want to siphon gas, just say so. I'll put out my special cigarette.
Cop: What's so special about your cigarette?
A it's from the texaco station.
Cop: I'm gonna go ahead and check out the trunk
A Be careful
Cop: Any reason I should be careful?
A Traffic.
footsteps and trunk opening
Cop: holy mary mother of god
into radio: were gonna need some backup, I 110 shoulder car 155
Cop yelling: Sir get out of the car, get out of the car right now, hands on top of the vehicle
car door opening
Cop freakout: aggresive suspect, I repeat aggresive suspect, possibly armed
Driver: I'm just getting out of the car like you asked, why did you do that diving roll? Whats with the gun?
Cop: Suspect verbally resisting arrest. Evasive manuevers. sound of cop rolling across hood.
Tazer sound
Into radio: Suspect was reaching for something in his right front jean pocket, possibly a machine gun or something else to murder me with. I've shot him in the neck with a tazer to make sure no one gets hurt here.
Struggle sounds
Cop: get down, get down, hands behind your back
Other police cars arriving with sirens on.
car doors opening, lots of yelling, 5 more tazer sounds.
Driver: I was just getting my ID like you asked, I think my arm is broken.
Cops screaming: shutup, shutup, down on the ground
scene goes quiet. Switch to interview of cops by camera crew afterwards
Interviewer: So what happened out there?
Cop: We encountered an agressive suspect out in the field, he tried to joke around with me, which is usually a sign of criminal activity. When went to check his trunk the report came back over the radio on his plates, We came across an unpaid parking ticket from 4 years ago. So, you know this gentlemen has made a concious decision to flaunt the law. Going from there we can only assume that he is willing to break any law and has. There's also a huge statistical correlation between people with small infractions that cops later label as violent, based on that that, I have to immediately assume this guy is violent and label him as such.
Interviewer: was anything in the trunk?
cop: There was a tire iron, it's a makeshift weapon a lot of car owners carry around for purposes of aggrevated assault. It'll be entered into evidence, we'll file a charge of conspiricy to commit aggrevated assult.
Interviewer: Why would you do that?
Cop: Well, since we can't physically prove what we know will happen in the future, that charge will just get dropped. The way we do it is that we charge you with 3 times as many crimes as you commit, then the prosecuter offers you a 66 percent off deal, where the two made up charges dissapear and all you have to do is serve the full sentence for whatever crime we say you commited. Then if a criminal is stupid enough to claim innocence like this guy probably will, then he has to risk 3-4 times the sentance for his actual crime, as punishment for pretending to be innocent.
Interviewer: And you don't feel like there was any exessive force used, or that he was cooperating enough for the interaction to stay verbal
Cop: It's no more excessive than what we use to respond to anyone. The main thing is to keep the cops safe. when there's just 6 armed guys and a chopper out here with me, I feel threatened by individual unarmed pedestrians, kind of alone you know
The important thing here is that we were all in mortal danger, and the heroic actions of our officers in the face of danger probably saved a lot of lives. The important thing is that no one got hurt.
Other cop: hey let's hit the bar then drive home, I'm buying
Muffled voice of driver being drug away on the pavement: Someone get my toof, it rolled under my wife's car.
But a lot of them didn't have a script or idea to start with. So I wrote this little script that shouldn't cost much to make.
Here's the Challenge. Pure directing. I'm wondering which low budget filmmaker can produce the best acted version of this. Submission deadline, sept 1. Prize. Mid level CG intro sequence for your next project. (about a 2k value)
Here's the script.
cop pulls over a car on the highway
conversation
Cop: Hello sir, do you know why I pulled you over?
Driver: Because only cops are allowed to pull people over? If one of the other drivers had pulled me over, that would have been a lot more unexpected
Cop: I mean do you know what traffic law you were breaking? Do you know how fast you were going?
Driver: I assume I was going the same speed as my car.
Cop: Do the plates on this car belong to this car?
Driver: you mean, like, in the metaphorical sense?
Cop: You think you're funny son?
A No, I don't think so. This girl lauged at one of my jokes once, but she had scoliosis, so I don't think it counts.
Cop: Have you been drinking sir?
A Oh yes, a pretty good amount.
Cop:what have you been drinking?
A caffine supplement
Cop: Excuse me
A You know, energy drinks that supplement your body's missing caffine and bull urine.
Cop:Is the drink you're describing alchoholic?
A I mean, It can be, you just add alcohol. Personally I find that to be true of a great many drinks. I think the real point of no return is when you're drink is already alchoholic, you can't make it more so by adding additional alchohol. If a glass of mixed drink is already full of alchohol, but still needs more, that glass of alchohol has a disease and should be taken to an aa meeting to avoid being drunk.
Cop:what's that sound coming from your trunk?
A That's not my trunk
Cop:you mind if I check the trunk son?
A is that code? If you want to siphon gas, just say so. I'll put out my special cigarette.
Cop: What's so special about your cigarette?
A it's from the texaco station.
Cop: I'm gonna go ahead and check out the trunk
A Be careful
Cop: Any reason I should be careful?
A Traffic.
footsteps and trunk opening
Cop: holy mary mother of god
into radio: were gonna need some backup, I 110 shoulder car 155
Cop yelling: Sir get out of the car, get out of the car right now, hands on top of the vehicle
car door opening
Cop freakout: aggresive suspect, I repeat aggresive suspect, possibly armed
Driver: I'm just getting out of the car like you asked, why did you do that diving roll? Whats with the gun?
Cop: Suspect verbally resisting arrest. Evasive manuevers. sound of cop rolling across hood.
Tazer sound
Into radio: Suspect was reaching for something in his right front jean pocket, possibly a machine gun or something else to murder me with. I've shot him in the neck with a tazer to make sure no one gets hurt here.
Struggle sounds
Cop: get down, get down, hands behind your back
Other police cars arriving with sirens on.
car doors opening, lots of yelling, 5 more tazer sounds.
Driver: I was just getting my ID like you asked, I think my arm is broken.
Cops screaming: shutup, shutup, down on the ground
scene goes quiet. Switch to interview of cops by camera crew afterwards
Interviewer: So what happened out there?
Cop: We encountered an agressive suspect out in the field, he tried to joke around with me, which is usually a sign of criminal activity. When went to check his trunk the report came back over the radio on his plates, We came across an unpaid parking ticket from 4 years ago. So, you know this gentlemen has made a concious decision to flaunt the law. Going from there we can only assume that he is willing to break any law and has. There's also a huge statistical correlation between people with small infractions that cops later label as violent, based on that that, I have to immediately assume this guy is violent and label him as such.
Interviewer: was anything in the trunk?
cop: There was a tire iron, it's a makeshift weapon a lot of car owners carry around for purposes of aggrevated assault. It'll be entered into evidence, we'll file a charge of conspiricy to commit aggrevated assult.
Interviewer: Why would you do that?
Cop: Well, since we can't physically prove what we know will happen in the future, that charge will just get dropped. The way we do it is that we charge you with 3 times as many crimes as you commit, then the prosecuter offers you a 66 percent off deal, where the two made up charges dissapear and all you have to do is serve the full sentence for whatever crime we say you commited. Then if a criminal is stupid enough to claim innocence like this guy probably will, then he has to risk 3-4 times the sentance for his actual crime, as punishment for pretending to be innocent.
Interviewer: And you don't feel like there was any exessive force used, or that he was cooperating enough for the interaction to stay verbal
Cop: It's no more excessive than what we use to respond to anyone. The main thing is to keep the cops safe. when there's just 6 armed guys and a chopper out here with me, I feel threatened by individual unarmed pedestrians, kind of alone you know
The important thing here is that we were all in mortal danger, and the heroic actions of our officers in the face of danger probably saved a lot of lives. The important thing is that no one got hurt.
Other cop: hey let's hit the bar then drive home, I'm buying
Muffled voice of driver being drug away on the pavement: Someone get my toof, it rolled under my wife's car.
