The camera rises up over a rise behind the man and boy walking down the road. The shot shows a landscape of gray and brown spotted with blackened misshapen lumps. The two figures seem insignifcantly small set against the desolated vista. Camera snaps to a side shot of the boy standing next to his father… Continue reading The Prism of Perception
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Screenplay for The Road
(Scene adapted from page 138 in the book.) Point of view shot as man walks down stairs into bunker. Camera pans to show cots along the wall, mattress pads rolled up. Cut to man’s face, smiling. The man turns his head to look at the boy. Point of view shot as he looks at boy.… Continue reading Screenplay for The Road
Screenplay of the Road
Ext: Bushes Outside of House The camera zooms in to the man and the boy hiding from the men and women among bushes outside of a house. There is dead silence except for the voices of the strangers nearby. Snow still lingers on the ground and it is the middle of the afternoon. It is… Continue reading Screenplay of the Road
The Road Script
THE ROAD Written by Cormac McCarthy November, 2009 Fade in EXT. CROSSROADS- MAN AND BOY Camera goes with boy BOY Boy kneels on grass with a cup of water. CLOSE UP SHOT OF MAN MAN Wheezing, squeezes boy’s hand. CUTAWAY TO BOY BOY Tears are streaming down boys face. You’re going to be… Continue reading The Road Script
The lake
I picked the first scene of the novel, starting with the dream portion and working from there. Scene begins in a dank, eerie cave. Camera, in first-person point of view, pans over the jagged surfaces of its interior while soft dripping noises echo in the background. This goes on for three beats, uninterrupted. The camera… Continue reading The lake
Scene: Boy Spots Boy
(adapted fr. The Road, pgs. 84-85) EXT: HOUSE PORCH (NIGHT) VERY WIDE SHOT. A single-family house with a wraparound porch, ordinary-looking in the darkness except for the unmistakable absence of vertical banister rods, an eerie lack of pattern. Rails intact, there is a sense that the rods are mere decoration and have nothing to do… Continue reading Scene: Boy Spots Boy
scene from a screenplay: The Road
EXT. WALKING ON DOWN SLOPE IN A MOUNTAIN – LATE AFTERNOON A man and a boy are walking down a slope mountain with a slow heavy pace through a watershed. Their numb feet wrapped up in rags that are drenched with chilly water. Everything around them is gray and there are no traces of green… Continue reading scene from a screenplay: The Road
movie blog on The Road
I picked the middle paragraph on page 83 where the man and boy are watching the rain inside the truck. Starts with dog howling, nothing visual. This brings all attention to the howling dog. Then it would open with the camera showing a light gray smog, symbolizing the start of morning. Focuses on gray slices… Continue reading movie blog on The Road
Blogging (and filming) “The Road”
Pick one scene (and this includes dialogue) and re-imagine it as a movie. And then either: Rewrite it as a scene from a screenplay – or – Storyboard it, visually In either case, highlight what the audience would see and hear. Describe the lighting, camera angles, shot sequence, set design, sound, etc. that would preserve… Continue reading Blogging (and filming) “The Road”