MOOD BOARD

test shoot.

Busy shots down oxford street
- Close ups of gorilla body parts and tracking with the dolly down the street.
- Oyster card on the beeper
- Esculator shots
- different angles
- Wating on the platform
- out to in focus- shot from inside train pulling into station and seeing gorilla by the near doors. (hard shot - needs practise)
- Check the lighting on the tube
- see if we get a clear enough picture
- Tracking shots with car (important)
- we can try this in a location thats not as busy as oxford street. If it works then on the real shoot we'll go down to oxford street.
- Check out tesco's permission

initial treatment- temptaions

Extreme long shots of crowds walking down a busy oxford street, in the crowd of people, there is also a gorilla walking through the crowds towards the tube station.
Possibly dressed in a shirt and tie.

Various range of shots of the gorilla walking into the station, high angle of him walking down the stairs, CU of him touching In his oyster card. Etc.

Low angle shot of him coming down the escalator, checking his watch, i.e very human like.

Gets on to the train, everyone around is acting very normally, perhaps someone next to him gives him the eye as if to say, “hmmm something’s not quite right there” but takes no more interest in it.

Close ups of him getting out his i-pod, plugs it into his ears. Listening to his i=pod on the tube.

Starts to read his paper, and then suddenly a female gorilla gets on the tube, she is wearing a pink bow, a skirt, etc.
First we see shots of her getting on the train, very tight close ups of different parts of her body, holding the suspense that the next gorilla is actually …female.

Over her shoulder shots of him checking her out, he pops his head over his newspaper.

He is TEMPTED by her, and causes him to become less and less human like and gives in to his temptations of this female, he becomes more and more wild and gorilla like, thus giving in to his temptations.

The female gorilla gets of the train, he has a second to think, he jumps up and runs off the train in a gorilla like way, maybe using the poles to swing. This then attracts some attention from passengers

he then runs out towadrs the esculator, the camera scans around looking up the esculator, in the row of people going up we spot the female gorrilla, he madly runs up the stairs, by the time he gets to the top, shes gone- there's no sign of her.

he then runs as fast as he can with desperation to find her, he runs madly through london, running in and out and over obstacles, down stairs, round corners. we will use as many interesting camera angles and movements that will fit together nicely along to the fast paced music.

as we cut in and out of the shots of the performance, the day is getting darker as the gorilla keeps running, he ends up at a bar, he is drinking himself silly, he is very drunk, he stumbles out of the pub, a bald man barges him on his way out, as if to nearly start a fight, he stumbles along and collapses on a step..... then all of a sudden, a stroke of luck, his lady friend has returned.

he jumps up, they get talking but then, a huge banana walks passed, his temptations cant resisit, he goes with the banana. (the banana possibley being scared as he doesnt want to get eaten, maybe it is as if he is being mugged, the banana maybe tries to give him money)

gorilla idea

This idea revolves around a male gorilla falling in love with a female gorilla after seeing her on a london tube. It follows the male gorilla as he tries to impress the female gorilla and ultimately win her heart.Shot ideas
A male gorilla waiting on the platform. A tube pulls in and he gets onto it. There is a spare seat in the middle of two passangers and he decides to sit down. Multiple shots of the gorilla reading a newspaper, listening to an i-pod, eating a banana. The idea is that there is nothing wrong with a gorilla on the tube with other people.
A second gorilla comes and sits down opposite him in between some passangers. The male gorilla tries a variety of ways to impress her - beats his chest, rubs his chest, swings around the carrage.The female gorilla gets off the tube and the male one follows her. See's her at the top of the esculators and chases her up the middle of them.The rest of the video is different ways to impress her.It ends with them being together.