Proposal/Treatment

Outline:

Intro: Sunrise and Roadkill (Video)

Act I: Animation (1 min)

• Dr. Hawkes will describe the topography of the Wilmington area from Cape Fear River downtown to Wrightsville Beach. Briefly discussing how each environment functions, from barrier islands to estuaries.This will allow ppl unfamiliar with describes the water quality and water pollution pros and cons. Animations will accompany her story of how things are to give the audience a better visualization of the problem and to stress?(stress may not be the best word) how we are all connected

Act 2: (Animation, 1 min)Rise in Population equals more buildings, cement and less natural land.

• Still through Dr. Hawkes VO she will talk about Wilmington's rising population and as a result a rise in cement leads to more StormWater Runoff which is the leading source of water pollution.

Act 3: What is StormWater Runoff? (Animation, 1 min)

• VO accompanied by Animation lays out the scenario of rainwater being funneled by the cement into the sewer where they are untreated stormwater runoff pollutes the water we swim in, the fish we eat, and our economy of the Wilmington area. I can guarantee you, right now, the house value in flint is not very high. Also there will be Dogs poop and motto scoop the poop for comic relief and to people resonate with swimming in their dog's excrement.

Act 4: Solutions (Animation, 2 min)

• DNA dog poop, which is a serious proposal at some places but again this will be a joke more so to illustrate this is a band aid solution rather than solving the actually problem. Already proposing without saying our solutions that we seek long term solutions not short term fixes
• Large solutions like WasteWater Treatment Centers using man made objects
• Against DYI improvements to your home, Rain Barrels, Native Plants, rain gardens, impervious cement, and pick up your  
• And Large scale environmental projects like they did just recently in the Chesapeake Bay, made the largest man made reef using recycled Oyster Shells

Oyster Restoration is the best of both worlds because individuals can help by recycling their oyster shells, community event from the restaurant shells, fishermen, filters the water, provides a safe haven for nesting fish from dangerous predators, think Finding Nemo. Also heavy machinery is required to move these shells so labor unions will still be needed, employed and healthier which means less health care cost, and so and so and so on.

The animation ends with like the recycling arrows showing how politicians, fishermen, real estate salesmen, surfers, locals, families, restaurants can help the whole community by working together to surmount the world’s greatest threat since the atomic bomb. Dr. Hawkes finishes up her inspiring speech, the animation of the whole community begins to fade away, and an actual video take of Dr. Hawkes in front of a whiteboard with everything we talked about drawn out on the white board in a complete mess of arrows and words, etc.

Dr. Hawkes looks at the camera, a bit out of breath and asks, “Did you get that” and roll credits.  

sidenote: before the ending just in the general animation with e talking back to her in disbelief or something like that, like NPR does it.

Conclusion:

That would be a good ending, sure to make the general audience chuckle with a witty ending like that. But I was thinking instead to end it by going back to video instead of animation to stress that these solutions are not in a fantasy, animated world, but are happening right now but individuals just like. We go to a Oyster Restoration project on our own beaches were volunteers of all ages are spending their time trying to preserve what they love about Wilmington. Final shot, a large crane carrying large bundle of oysters into a dump truck while the sun is setting because, you know, everybody chuckles a bit at full circle endings because they are so cheesy. (Could be even better if their is a street light with an LED bulb when it turns on.

Treatment/Proposal

With the Paris Conference ending not too long ago, leaders from around the world  have finally accepted the dangerous road in which we have been heading and finally seek to change our course. The war against climate change is a war against our very foundation. That is why it is up to filmmakers like ourselves to be the soldiers in the fight against climate change by developing Environmental films that find a problem, break it down, and present a solution.

In order to address problems on a global scale, we first must address the problems at a local level. That is why with our film, we hope to address environmental issues that are most prevalent to the Wilmington area; Water Quality. Water by itself does not become polluted; there a variety of reasons why water quality my decrease. By introducing the rise of population in the Wilmington area due to its beautiful beaches, towns and people; we will show the correlation in the rise of concrete. From there we will show that because of the increase of population and concrete, there is an increase of untreated stormwater runoff; the leading cause of water pollution.

After we have addressed the problem we will introduce some solutions, both expensive and inexpensive, that either local officials or households may adopt in order to decrease stormwater runoff. These solutions will include, impervious cement, rain barrels, rain gardens, oysters, native plants and more.

Also the film will incorporate all aspects from this class. The intro will be experimental  consisting of still photography of road kill. Animations will depict the process of how stormwater runoff leads to pollutions and then how our solutions may stem the problem. As well as, in depth interviews from experts will provide the V.O for the animations and on site footage as evidence of the crisis.  

If you support this proposal, I will give you a film worth watching that has a purpose, a message, and a mission to promote long term and sustainable practices, in order to enact change during these troubled but opportunistic times.

Distribution

• Government (Wilmington)
• Schools
• Film Festivals
• YouTube (possibly a channel)
• Social Media
• All Local and State-Wide Environmental programs.

Links

• http://www.wilmingtonnc.gov/public_services/stormwater/education_outreach.aspx
• http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2015/09/26/man-made-oyster-reef-save-chesapeake-bay/72885072/ (Oysters)
• http://dnr2.maryland.gov/fisheries/Documents/2014%20Choptank%20oyster%20implementation%20update%20FINAL%205.5.15.pdf (oysters implementation)
• http://www.coastalreview.org/2016/01/small-polluters-could-get-a-pass/ (Pollution)
• http://www.nccoast.org/get-involved/volunteer/

Contacts

• Wilmington WasteWater Treatment System Emails and contact below. (http://www.cfpua.org/360/Wastewater-Treatment)
• Dr Andrea D. Hawkes Email: hawkesa@uncw.edu Phone: 910‐962‐2350
• Ben Brink_ Coastal Management Supervisor
• Oyster Recovery Partnership (OPR) 1805A Virginia Street,Annapolis, MD 21401, it is far away. Tel: 410-990-4970
• *North Carolina Coastal Federation* (http://www.nccoast.org/project/large-scale-oyster-restoration/)
• http://www.nccoast.org/get-involved/volunteer/ (volunteer for restoration project, get some stills, and that will be the ending, leaving people with hope for a better future that is within their grasp if we are willing to make sacrifices for the gretter good. And allow future generations to thrive from our actions rather than weakened by our mistakes.
• *Eric Pake #252-725-9290 (Jones Island Reef Construction)*

Intro

It is just before sunrise, the flourescent lights are still on. The camera is focusing on the light, the song Untitled 1 by Kyle Eyre Clyd is playing. It is a haunting, hypnotizing, buzzing sound, the music sets the tone; eerie. The music grows louder and as the the music grows the camera continue to zoom in/out? Then the sun begins to rise and their is a beautiful sun rising over the trees, when the sun begins to rise the focus shift, and the camera zooms out. Now there is only the sun, after it is nearly completely risen, the camera tilts down and reveals roadkill (species unknown yet, hoping for a cat or dog, which is really fucked up I know. However, cats and dogs are domestic and I am trying to portray on how nature is being infringed on, so either a racoon or deer would be best, a DEER would be perfect. As soon as the whole deer is in frame, we begin to zoom in on the eye….., either during production or in post since we will be shooting 4k but present/convert in 1080p. Hopefully there will be flies, I am still unsure about lighting, location, length of time, and one of those sign guys at 6 AM in the morning. I want the film to be authetic but who would know/care if it’s a “volunteer” actor. This is going to be for kids and the Gov’t. Come to think of it, parents probably wouldnt want their 10 year old child, closely observing roadkill on film at school, it may leave an impression. So I guess well just make an R version for the adults and a G version for the children without the roadkill and just the dude dancing with the sign and some traffic. Cut that scene with a 18 wheeler zooming by. Gotta be patient though for that shot, waited 20 min in Alaska and still no luck, Bastards. Then SUPER title, which for now is H2 Oh no (hahahahhahahha, that pun is just so bad), instead, Sip Savor Smile.

Location is still up in the air, I would like to be by the beach so you can see the waves and the scenery will be better but I am unsure about Roadkill, there probably is I just havent looked, a Turtle would be good. The turtles shell is broken like our shell the earth is slowly breaking from human pressures, or some BS like that, just sling some bull, you can find meaning in anything, and if you can't just make it up.  

DATES

Hatteras Island Oyster Roast Feb. 6th saturday 2pm-6pm

LOCATIONS

• Jones Island Patch Reef Construction 1h 30min car ride