Film school:Narrative Dialog Editing:Story of Penny and Eggbert:Film Score:Pop Quiz 2

An example for the course on Narrative Film Editing I need your help. Please tell me! Question 1 - The meaning of the story What does this story mean? Question 2 - The moods during the story A. What is the mood before the scene starts? B. What is the mood when Eggbert speaks the first time? C. What is the mood when Eggbert is finished speaking? (optional) D. What is the mood when Penny speaks? E. What is the mood when Penny is finished speaking? (optional) F. What is the mood when Eggbert speaks the second time? G. What is the mood when Eggbert finishes speaking? The story of Penny and Eggbert Intro: Penny & Egg Introduction Page #1: The story and script Page #2: The camera setups Pop Quiz: Penny & Egg Pop Quiz #1 Page #3: The dailies Page #4: The rough edit Page #5: "L-Cuts" Page #6: Creating "L-Cuts #1" Page #7: Creating "L-Cuts" #2 Pop Quiz: Penny & Egg Pop Quiz #2 Page #8: Planning the film score Page #9: How to insert narrative music Homework #1: Create the film score Homework #2: Editing the scene Note: Penny and Eggbert are 3D Poser models created by 3D Universe. For this lesson, these characters were posed and rendered with the free DAZ Studio.

The script Just to refresh your memory. Look at the script. The story is just a duck quacking and a penguin peeping. We cannot make this movie until we know what is means. What does it all mean? Put on your thinking cap and decide what this scene really means!

The movie script 1. EXT. - Any location you want Eggbert and Penny are having a conversation. EGGBERT Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack. PENNY Peep, peep, peep, peep, peep, peep, peep! EGGBERT Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack. FADE TO BLACK. The End

Please take this pop quiz!

The meaning of the story? What does this story mean and what moods are needed to explain the movie to the audience? Only you can decide! Write me! First, tell me what does this scene mean? What do you think is really happening? Second, tell me the moods of the scene. 1. What is the mood before the scene starts? 2. What is the mood when Eggbert first speaks? 3. What is the mood when Penny speaks? 4. What is the mood when Eggbert speaks the second time? 5. What is the mood when everyone is finished? And what are the moods between the dialog?

The history of Penny and Eggbert An ancient story from long ago The story of Penny and Eggbert is as old as mankind. Hieroglyphics of Penny and Eggbert have been found in the sacred pyramid texts written on strips of linen that were wrapped around mummies in the tombs of ancient Egypt. Carved glyphics of Penny and Eggbert have been found in Temple of Inscriptions which is a 65 foot tall Mayan temple on the Yucatan peninsula along the Gulf of Mexico. In the Asian, the story of Penny and Eggbert often substitutes an elephant and a monkey for the penguin and the duck. But it is still the same story. There are references to the story of Penny and Eggbert in the Vedic Sanskrit scriptures over two thousand years before Budda. There are at least three references to the story of Penny and Eggbert in the apocrypha of the Old Testament... as well as a brief mention in the both the Koran (see the French-to-Greek translation) and the Book of Mormon (Northwestern Edition, circa 1779.) Even a simple Google search will produce over 2,564,883 unique references to the story of Penny and Eggbert. But what does it all mean? Yet, despite all that we know about this story, no one can agree on its meaning. It is up to you, the editor of this story, to decide what this story means. Please tell me! Tell me what you think this story means. And once you have decided what this story means, you must decide what moods must be created with the musical score.

Tell me what you think!

What does this story mean and what moods are needed to explain the movie to the audience?

Email me with your answer.
2 points for what you think the scene means and 2 points for the moods in this scene!

Creating the film score The next page After you tell me which moods are needed, go to the film scoring page and begin designing a film score. Click here to go to the next page. Contact your instructor Your instructor for this filmmaking class is Robert Elliott. You can email me by clicking here.