More on the film exercise for those who want to make films

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So in the first part here... we did a feasibility study.

We looked at our potential market and discussed what it takes to make a good film, and what not to do. I adopted the character of Alex Baldwin, in Glengarry Glen Ross as the guy who knows what to do and you played the part of Jack Lemon and the other real estate salesmen who were not performing.

Always be closing.

So then the decision was made based on demographic research to use A.I. generated video, and to make characters that were wholesome and loving and beautiful but very average so that people can identify with them.

We decided the young daughter will be the person who understands what is happening to the family after they go through a time slip.

So she can be 9 years old, her brother is 16, the parents then are about 35.

They are American from a small town, in the Mid West lets say and they are going to visit their aunt Clara in their used SUV from there small normal house with a white picket fence.

The song Ripple by The Grateful Dead is playing while the opening credits are rolling.

I just had google A.I. generate that image for me. If you got the pro version you could get your story board done that way to some extent.

We can name them Jack, Jill, John the son and Jessica the daughter. An ordinary family an ordinary day, getting ready for a road trip to visit Aunt Clara. John looks too tall there but that's ok for now.

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So they are driving through the country and the kids in the back are playing rock paper scissors, and laughing when John says lets play rock paper scissors tickle! And tickles his sister under her chin and they are laughing, mom is talking almost to herself while doing something in the front seat with stuff out of the glove box talking about Aunt Clara and Jack the dad is driving with all this noise and a duck flies at the windshield, hist the windshield right in front of his face it shocks him he swerves, into the ditch on the left hits a big rock under the front of the car and the motor is wrecked. And it is sitting on that rock in the ditch 20 feet off the road.

Everyone is shaken but not hurt.

They get out of the car, and their phones don't have a signal. A farmer the one who owns the property has come out of the house he heard a big bang and his daughter is with him, the dad is 40, the daughter is 16.

John sees her and falls in love at first sight. She sees John and the same thing happens.

The dad lets call him Bill, he looks under the car and says the block is shot you are gonna need a tow truck.

Jack says our phones aren't working Bill says yeah they haven't got around to providing cell service here yet.

You can use my phone in the house if you want.

So Jack says that mighty kind of you.

So Jack and Bill go to the house and Jill starts to talk to the daughter and we will call her Sandra. And like moms do she starts telling her about Aunt Clara and she introduces her to John and Jessica.  So they gab for a little bit about their farm and the animals Jack comes out and says a truck is on its way, and Bill has offered to drive them into town.

At this point they do not know they went through a times slip when the duck hit the windshield.

You could leave a clue here but it better be very subtle so that almost no one will realize it. 

The wind vane on the farm house is not a rooster it is a duck.

On the fence the sign says beware of mule. Not beware of dog.

There is noise coming from the chicken coup. Like the chickens just got scared. 

A dog is barking near there.

The sky looks too whitish, not very blue, but just a bit so as to not be noticed. 

Bill drives down the driveway which is 30 yards down the road they have grabbed a couple bags out of the SUV and piled into the station wagon that he drives.

So it is only a short drive 2 miles to town so they don't have much time to chat in the car and they don't see a mother because there isn't one.

He is a single dad she died a few years back.

So they pull into the motel and Jack thanks him they shake hands they check into the motel.

Its not a fancy motel at all, they have one room, for 4 people, and a bathroom.

The tow truck will deliver their SUV to the motel.

At this point things look almost normal in that town, but all the vehicles are older than you would expect.

And there is a Howard Johnsons just over there and they went broke in 2022 and yet there is one over there.

They are in 2010 but they don't know it yet. But Jill notices and says hmmm that's weird there is a Howard Johnsons I thought they went broke. And Jack says yeah they did that one must be an independent or something. 

And the daughter Jessica she is looking out the window and seems to sense something is different, John is in the bathroom looking at his hair, worried about his looks, checking his skin, putting on his sun glasses, trying to look cool in the mirror.

The tow truck pulls into the motel parking lot.

Notice it misplaced the sign that is the kind of thing that will happen with A.I. but in a time slip maybe it doesn't matter at all.
They go to eat at Howard Johnsons. Their credit cards don't work, they have to pay with cash, all of a sudden they feel stranded.

Jack grabs a paper out of the box and they head back to the motel.

When he looks at the paper he sees the date, it is 2010.

All of a sudden it starts to get weird. They turn on the TV the TV is B&W. Turn on the radio and the news is from 2010.

Now they are getting worried.

And Jessica the daughter says "Relax!, I know what this is, a have a friend at school who told me that it happened to her when she was 7."

Don't freak out. Stay calm, and don't tell anyone you are from somewhere else they will think you are crazy. It's a time slip."

Drama here with silence and camera looking at their faces.

John says cool! A time slip! And he get his phone and starts taking pictures out the window and taking photos of the paper.

Cool his dad says, our credit cards don't work we have 200 dollars on us in cash,  that's not cool.

The mom says maybe I can get a job at Howard Johnsons, and Jack says I better look for a construction job, and John you can get a job at a grocery store maybe bagging groceries or stuff like that.

What about me says Jessica, You are too young says her dad, you will have to stay here.

She plunks down on the sofa frustrated, while they look at the help want ads.

Notice how much story we have to write and we are just doing a rough draft before we even do an outline.

But we can see the film coming together. 

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The story moves forward, Jack is outside the motel wearing a hard hat, getting picked up by a pickup trick with ladders on the roof and rack on the truck.

Jill is doing yoga watching the black and white TV morning show, John is on the phone talking to a grocery store trying to get a job.
Jessica is writing in her diary.

John gets a job! 

Jill says great! I start waitressing tomorrow across the street. Phew, 

What's wrong Jessica?

I miss my friends. If Chelsea were here she could tell us what to do, She knows all about time slips.

John says hey this isn't so bad, cheer up,

Jessica says oh easy for you you already found a girlfriend.

John says shut up, she is not my girlfriend, yet,

the mom says enough you two! This is serious. Aunt Clara is going to be worried sick and we might never get back.

How did Chelsea get back?

I don't know. I can't remember, it was last year she told me about it. I think she went back to where she was when it happenned.

So now you fill in Jack on the construction site and he has to make stuff up a bit but just new in town and just settling in, he is playing his cards close to his chest.

And you have clues here and there that this universe is different. Whatever you want to put like they still use old fashioned taps or old fashioned bath tubs, or any sort of subtle thing you can think of.

Jill is waitressing and some of the people who come in seem a little odd. There seems to be a lot of red headed people.

Not that many but more than you would expect.

And people are smoking inside the diner.

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So now we can develop the love story, since things for them are stable at present, weird at times but stable.

The world was not so different in 2010.

John is working at the grocery store and Sandra the girl is there getting groceries, and John is being cool, and smiling and friendly, and Sandra is smiling and friendly but a bit sort of shy, John says he will carry her groceries out and walks into the wrong door it doesn't open, she laughs, he feels awkward but goes through the right door and bags are plastic so nothing is damaged, her dad is across the street at the Hardware store.

So John chats her up a bit and asks her if she wants to go to a show on Friday, it is summer holidays and Sandra says I am supposed to go out with my best friend on Friday it is her birthday.  Well then invite her to the show with us. She says ok. 

The grocer calls to John, he says coming and waves by to Sandra smiling ear to ear.

and says YEsss! as he walks back to the grocery store doors.

At the motel Jessica is there alone. 

She is looking out the window, watching people go by. 

She sees a cat outside, it scratches at the door. She lets it in.

She says are you hungry? She pets it and she finds her sandwich and she gives it a bit of food.

That cheers her up.

Her mom is crossing the street, the cat wants to go back outside, she opens the door and the cat goes out and just keeps the door open as her mom walks up to the door.

She saw the cat go out.

Looks like you made a friend.

She was scratching at the door and I gave her a bit of my sandwich.

That was nice.

How was work?

Of the usual, I made good tips today though.

Can we order pizza? 

Sure when your dad comes home we will order pizza.

Normal stuff, normal people, love story coming together.

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So now we are at Sandra's house and it is Friday, I'm going to the show with Janet tonight It's her birthday.

Do you need a ride?

No she has her license and got a car for her birthday!

A car?

Its not a new one but it is still a nice car.

Well ok, you two be careful, and don't be late.

We won't.

So then later Janet her best friend shows arrives and Sandra runs out and jumps in and they are both so excited they crank up the music, 

and it's 2010 so what is playing on the radio?

Taylor. Of course.

Singing a break up break down song.

White Horse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Xr-JFLxik

They know it and they start singing to it as they drive into town.

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Does John look like that guy?

A bit.

John invited his new friend from the grocery store Bret another grocery clerk and they are standing outside the theater waiting for the two girls.

They see them drive up.

Do you know Janet John asks

A bit we were in English together last year. are you going to put your arm around Sandra?

I don't know, do you think she will let me?

Why not?

The girls are there now.

Hey girls, and they walk in and get their popcorn, and now they have to figure out who is going to sit where.

Janet doesn't want to sit next to Bret. He wears glasses.

So Bret is beside John and Janet is beside Sandra.

And they are watching Alice in Wonderland from 2010.

John is thinking about putting his arm around Sandra. 

Bret nudges him with an elbow.

He goes for the fake yawn stretch,  and puts his arm around Sandra.

She doesn't flinch.

In his head he is thinking that's it, I id it, we are a couple just like that! I have a girlfriend. And she is amazing!

After the film they go to Howard Johnsons and get some food and they are happy and talking all 4 of them.

and then the girls have to go the boys walk them to the car and this is it, his moment, he is going to kiss her goodnight.

And of course this has to be done like any Hollywood movie their first kiss.

That's very big news for teens. So it has to go perfectly.

Then the girls are driving away, and when they are out of site John is high fiving Bret! 

And the girls are in the car and Sandra is dazed, and Janet says he is so cute! 

And Sandra says OMG, what just happened?

And they make girl noises and crank up the radio again.

And Baby is playing by Bieber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffacxfA7G4

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John is walking home and he sees a motorcycle outside the gas stion with a sign on it for sale $300.

He smiles and keeps walking.

Cut to the motel, the dad is talking to the mom, they want $3,000 for a new motor, 

$3,000 ???! Jill says,

yeah that's the best they can do. 
That's all the money we have.

Well then next pay day.

Jill looks at Jessica and it looks like she is crying.

Jill goes over to Jessica what's wrong sweetheart?

I'm sooo lonely.

Oh you poor thing...her mom hugs her, 

a song comes on the radio...

Once there was a way, to get back homeward, 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQjM7gV6mI

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John has motorcycle now and he driving down the road with Sandra behind him and it is the best day that has ever been for both of them riding through the countryside on his new motorbike.

The sun is shining, love is in the air and everywhere.
It's a beautiful morning, 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqjlFGZxtE

they are having a picnic by the river on the grass. Laying on their back on the grass looking at clouds, finding animals in the clouds, and they see one that looks too real.

Look at that one. It looks like an elephant.

John takes out his smart phone and takes a photo.

Sandra asks what's that?

My smart phone.

What's a smart phone. 

And all of a sudden he realizes he just got busted.

Let me see?

Its nothing let me SEE.

So now he shows her the phone.

How does it work?

And so now she is looking at him different.

All of a sudden he has to decide if he should tell her.

Tell me! 

You will think I'm crazy.

I will not.

Do you know what a time slip is?

Yeah I think so, there was a guy who they found in Paris I think he was earing clothes from the war something like that?

Yeah something like that.

That happened to us, my family, when we met.

OMG, OMG.

Where are you from?

2026.

2026???

OMG.

You are making that up.

No it really happened, but I am not supposed to tell anyone.

OMG.

What are you going to do?

I don't know. 

They lay back down on the grass and he has his arm around her.

And the theme music plays whatever theme music you pick.

Enya Only Time is probably good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI

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When she wrestles the smart phone from his hand earlier I missed a part, she asks why does the year say 2026?

So now their mood is different.

Later in the day. All of a sudden it feels like at any moment they could be separated.

They hug more, they seem serious now.

They are sitting in Howard Johnsons, his mom isn't working that day.

They are holding hands across the table.

Looking into each others eyes.

Take me with you.

How??? He whispers loudly.

Don't leave me here.

Maybe we won't have to go back.

They always go back.

Maybe it will be different.

Their dad is at the garage with the SUV on the hoist.

Jill is at the library with Jessica and Jessica is looking at books about time slips.

Jill is reading a magazine.

Jessica has a book that says you can open a portal, its an old funny book,

It even has instructions how to make a transistor radio make a certain frequency that will open a portal.

She takes the book out of the library.

Back at the motel things are more sober now.

The SUV took all their money almost and so Jack is really nervous about that.

Jill is trying to calm him down, but their voices are getting a bit louder.

We have to find a way to get home! 

John is saying how???And what about me and Sandra? 

Jill is there Sandra will be fine, 

No she will not be fine.

Jessica joins in, Mom, MOM! You never listen to me ever! When I was trying to tell you about what happened to my friend at school all you said was that's nice dear, all you ever did was tell me me to be quiet! I know what to do! 

I had a dream. 

I was in a place where the sun was yellow. 

I saw a man there. He was holding a baby lamb, on a farm. 

I asked him where I was, he smiled at me, and he said I was in heaven.

BANG! A car backfires outside it sounds like a gun shot.

The kids and Jill jump up to look out the window, the dad yells  STAY DOWN! 

Jill is already there, its ok its ok it was a car backfiring.

Phew.

We better get some sleep, we have to work tomorrow.

John is staring at the ceiling.

Sandra is in her room, staring at the ceiling.

Enya plays their theme song Only Time a bit more..

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Jack and Jill are at work, John and Jessica are in the motel room. John is bouncing a tennis ball off the wall, sitting on the floor.

Jessica has her book and is reading it, she asks him aren't you going out with Sandra today?

No, her dad says we are seeing too much of each other, he wants her to stay home and help him do the canning.

Summer's almost over she has to go back to school next week.

At any time we could end up back home and we will never see each other again.

Jessica goes over to him and sits down.

I know what to do.

He says what skeptically.

Here see she shows him the book,

you make this radio thing and it can open a portal.

Then maybe she could come with us?

Let me see.

A transistor radio, some magnets some wire, a transformer.

Are you sure this will work.

Look here look at the photo in the back.

That's a portal.

OMG. Look at that.

I will go and get the stuff.

He hops on his bike and goes to the hardware store the cat comes to the door she lets it in,

two bikers are leaving from the room next door, making noise, their motorcycles are loud, the cat is uneasy,

it is acting weird now, it wants to go outside,

she lets it out just as the motel managers wife is walking towards them HERE GIT she yells the cat shrieks and runs.

She looks in the room stares Jessica in the face looking really mean.

Jessica ducks down and wraps her arms around the book.

John comes back with the stuff and starts to make the device.

Jack comes back he is not happy.

Jill is finished work she brought some food home with her and is putting it on the table.

Jack says I am getting laid off next week.

You too?

OMG, me too, things slow down as soon as the kids go back to school.

And we have no money!

John says, Mom dad, we have plan.

What sort of plan?

This and he shows them the radio.

That's the plan.

Here look at the book, and he shows him the book they are gathered around the book,

Jessica is on her moms lap.

Do you think it will work John asks his dad.

We can try he says.

Now clocks plays by Cold play while John shows his dad the device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d020hcWA_Wg

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While the sing plays we cut to Sandra's house they sitting at the table eating dinner.

Not talking.

Finally he says what do you know about that boy?

Everything.

What's everyting?

You know he is a nice boy.

Well he seems a bit strange to me.

Ever since your mom died I have had to look after you myself.

Dad.

Well you are only 16.

What if you get pregnant?

DAD!

Don't dad me I was his age I know what is going through his head.

Have you slept with him yet?

NO!

Thank God for that. he says.

She grabs the dishes and takes them to the sink.

He pours himself a drink.

The next day Jill is on her way to work, and the mean lady is there.

I saw a cat here yesterday.

We don't allow pets in the building.

We don't have a cat.

Well that's good or else you would have to leave.

Now Jill has to go to work not knowing if the cat is going to come back.

Jack is leaving for work in the SUV John gets on his  motorbike and rides to work and Jessica is all alone again.

She is sitting there hugging her doll.

John gets to work the manager seems angry or worried everyone seems in a bad mood the sky is filling with clouds.

It starts to rain, Jack is at work and it is raining hard.

Lightning is also going on and thunder and Jill looks out the window and the rain is pouring down, 

WAITRESS!, she is jarred out of day dream, MORE COFFEE, 

she goes over and pours the guy more coffee.

The manager looks at her, 

she hurries behind the counter and refills her pot, 

some days are diamond, and some days are not diamond.

She leaves work at the end of her shift and it still pouring down she tries to cover her head with her sweater.

And hurries across the street into the motel room. Soaking wet.

John is arriving too, on his bike soaked.

BRrrrr... its freezing out there.

Jack pulls into the parking lot and hurries into the building.

I'm starved what's for dinner.

I didn't get anything I didn't even get any tips today.

John says I have some money we can order pizza or Chinese food.

They order Chinese food and it is crap.

Jack says I need a drink.

Jill says don't go out tonight Jack. We can both go another night.

I won't be long.

He drives to the bar and has a drink at the bar.

Two bikers are there shooting pool.

It's a country and western bar.

Waylon and Willie are playing on the jukebox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKw834trRWo

He feels guilty and just has the one drink and its a good thing too because the cops are hiding around the corner.

He makes it back to the motel.

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We have to try that radio.

What tonight??? Says Jill.
No tomorrow.

John says but dad that's not enough time.

We are going to be homeless here real soon if we do not get out of here.

Your father is right John.

When then?

Tomorrow night. On the road by Sandra's house.

It stopped raining now and Jessica is at the window and sees a star in the sky and closes her eyes tight and makes a wish.

John hasn't seen Sandra for over a week.

Where are you going John, its almost 10 o'clock.

I have to go somewhere. 

John his dad says.

I have to go see Sandra.

Let him go dear.

And he leaves and rides to Sandra's house, doesn't drive up the drive way he jumps the fence.

and tosses pebbles at her upstairs window.

She comes to the window. 

We're leaving tomirrow.

WHAT???

Come with us.

How?

Tomorrow night.

Be down at the road at 9pm.

The dog starts barking.

OK you better go.

he runs back to his bike.

Last day at work for all three.

They say their goodbyes to their friends at work.

They have enough money to settle the bill with the motel. But that's all they have.

John already sold his bike to Bret. He only got 150 bucks.

He had to give 100 to his dad for the bill and his check. It was only 2 days pay.

They have a full tank of gas and maybe 50 between them.

Its coudy again.

Everything is packed. 

You can hear thunder far away, a storm is coming.

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It's 10 to 9.

They arrive at 9pm there on the road where the duck hit the windshield.

The wind is up and its dark and gloom, and starting to rain, they are outside the truck

Jack is turning setting up the radio,

No sign of Sandra.

John is freaking out.

Where is she???

Sandra is coming down the stairs with a overnight bag, where are you going asks her dad.

I want to check on the chickens i didn't close their pen.

Young lady.

What's in the bag?

Some stuff for the chickens,

He grabs the bag.

You're not leaving.

He stands in front of the door.

You are all I have in the world!

Dad, I have to go.

You're not leaving, go to your room.

She starts to cry and runs up the stairs.

She ties two sheets then a sweater, then another sweater, and ties it to the bed post, opens the window and makes it to the ground, a dog barks, 

lightning hits a tree behind her house in the field and in the light you can see her running,  

Jack turns the radio on and it starts to make this shrill noise, the wind is blowing John shouts SANDRA!!!

The portal opens, quick son, we have to go now!

Wait!

She is coming!

Jill: WE have to stick together as a family NOW JOHN!

WAIT,

we have to go now JOHN.

SANDRA!!!!

NOW JOHN BEFORE IT CLOSES!

He walks through the portal, its not raining there. The portal is closing as she runs up to it and reaches through John grabs her hand, but her dad is behind her now and he pulls her back.

and the portal closes.

John falls to his knees his head is in his hands.

Jack looks at Jill with love in his eyes.

Jessica wants to say something to John and touch his shoulder, she reaches and touches his shoulder.

He gets up, he looks at his parents, he turns and looks where the door was.

It opens for a flash then closes.

It opens again this time he leaps for it.

and is gone.

Jessica and Jack and Jill hug each other.

Its after noon there.

and its a nice day.

They smile at each other. He will be fine. True love will find a way.

They turn to look at the sun, and the camera pans with them, and the sun is yellow.

John lands hard on the road and is knocked out.

He comes to and Sandra is there, it's not raining there, the road is dry, it's noon, where am I? He asks her.

You had a car accident she says, don't try to get up, an ambulance is coming.

She is holding his hand.

The ambulance and cops pull up with sirens.

And a woman comes running up to John and Sandra, two more are running for the car, John has a cut on his forehead and so the paramedic is treating it.

How's my folks my sister?

A male paramedic crouches down, I have some bad news son, you mom you dad and your sister, didn't make it.

You got thrown clear.

Bring him into the house, Sandra's dad says.

and Cold play plays yellow.

as the credits roll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKNxeF4KMsY

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What is clear as I do this is the A.I.  is not going to be cooperative when it makes the images.

The constraints still are too great. For instance the most powerful shot in that film described at present is when Sandra is running from the house towards the fence from the back of the house and lightning hits the tree and she is illuminated running.

That one bit of film might take you an entire week but hey, if you get the right image even if it takes 10 people two weeks, you need that shot.

This is what I got after two tries using nano banana 2  

Do we know why the girl couldn't be too far away from the camera? The A.I. graphic engine cannot make faces in the distance at all, at this point it uses a 16 pixel grid and anything small it can't do under normal circumstances so faces at a distance horrible. Even body poses or shapes so you will have to work on where the camera is or somehow get past the limitations by using face fixing techniques etc. You might need to do your own editing frame by frame using Stable Diffusion standalone. Image2 image. and upscale routines. 
She can't look like that she has to look like a sprinter running for her life. Not looking casually to the side straight at the camera. And moving fast like you would, if your true love was screaming for you and your future, your happiness, depended on you getting there in time.

This is the climax of the film.

This is where Romeo and Juliet have one shot and one shot only to find happiness.

And there she looks a couple years too young to be eloping in todays world.

What I told google A.I. 

Well thanks for trying someday you know you will able to make movies even, when you get a positronic brain. thanks anyways.

"Thank you for the words of encouragement! A positronic brain would certainly speed things up, but until then, I will keep working on improving with each model update.

If you ever want to brainstorm more scenes, workshop dialogue, or map out plot points for your script, I am always ready to help you write and develop your ideas. Best of luck with your theatrical film—it sounds like a deeply compelling story!"

And you know I will be doing all that and more. Before I would give anything to anyone like an outline I would have the A.I. do it.

I would not present anything to the studio without it being done by the A.I. Every script writer every English teacher, every professor every expert every executive is inside that A.I. What they want want they need on THEIR level it will give you. You might know almost everything like myself but I may not know what that executive needs for his board. 

And there it is as easy as using google A.I.

[Rick1234567S]

You need inspiration.

Without inspiration, you could never fly through the air 30 feet doing a quad Lux, a quad flip or a quad toe loop and land it perfectly at the Olympics and look like a young women who lives in a fridge like a scene from ghost busters with all the confidence the guts and the glory.

Or beat Serena Williams at Wimbledon at age 17.  

What is the best film I am responsible for? That I inspired.

 I studied and I investigated through all of archeology and fringe science to find out about this and I studied the Bible.

and I found a secret in the Bible.

This is not so much a fictional story, although what they find there on the other side is complete fiction.

Watch the trailer. When was the last time you saw a film like this. I am the guy with glasses as played by James Spader.

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What was the secret?

Rev:21:21 

And Douglas Adams heard me tell it.

42

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was written by the English author and humourist Douglas Adams.  

Rev:21:21

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls

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So should we use that since those doors are like a portal.

Absolutely.

Is the daughter going to say, "I found a secret in the Bible"

to her brother. Yes she will.

Is the daughter going to say 42?

she could but that would spoil the mystery of 42. So we won't spoil Douglas' mystery.

She could hint about it.

She could say you know like hitchhiking across the universe.

She's a kid she will get things wrong or did she mean that correctly in this instance?

Watch this clip, this is me also....I discovered this place off planet...

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So John is throwing the tennis ball against the wall, sitting on the floor, and his sister is trying to read the book about portals.

The parents are at work.

They are in a motel room.

Jessica goes over to John and says I know what to do.

And shows him the book.

" Jack and Jill are at work, John and Jessica are in the motel room. John is bouncing a tennis ball off the wall, sitting on the floor.

Jessica has her book and is reading it, she asks him aren't you going out with Sandra today?

No, her dad says we are seeing too much of each other, he wants her to stay home and help him do the canning.

Summer's almost over she has to go back to school next week.

At any time we could end up back home and we will never see each other again.

Jessica goes over to him and sits down.

I know what to do.

He says what skeptically.

Here see she shows him the book,

you make this radio thing and it can open a portal.

Then maybe she could come with us?

Let me see.

A transistor radio, some magnets some wire, a transformer.

Are you sure this will work.

Look here look at the photo in the back.

That's a portal.

OMG. Look at that."

So John is young he watches all the stuff in youtube, he believes it.

Will the parents?

The parents come home...

"John says, Mom dad, we have plan.

What sort of plan?"

John shows his dad the book about portals,

Jessica says let me tell them.

I found a secret in the Bible.

It's in Revelations.

 Jessica goes to get the Bible out of the motel room drawer where there is always a Bible.

Jack the dad, is looking at the device John made,

Jessica is showing her mom Revelations the quote about the stargates.

She doesn't say it is a door to heaven like James Spader crosses out on the chalk board, but in the end they get there anyway and its a clue for those who will study it. But if you look closely enough at where she is pointing you will see some of that text. And the twelve gates were 

She doesn't mention Rev:21:21 

Just Revelations. Make them search for it.

Have her mother say OMG as she is reading it where Jessica is pointing.

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Getting back to where Sandra is sprinting.

When the lightning hits that tree and it explodes, it lights her up not fully, just the upper half clearly, enough for you to see she is there running for her life and she does not even flinch when that tree blows up.

THAT is what it takes to succeed on this earth and to get your match made in heaven.

You will not get it by kissing frogs.

You need determination, guts and drive.

I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more...

and a car but a motorcycle is better than hitchhiking.

And the guy with the motorcycle with the girl on the back is classic. 

Tom Cruise on his motor cylce.

Show me heaven.

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Sandra and John fell in love at first sight. So John does not have to slay a dragon, or save her in the river.

He doesn't need to be superman with the wind at his back, he just needs be a nice guy who girls think is cute.

Most girls aren't going to get Tom Cruise.
Or Justin Bieber.

But that guy in their class. He is attainable.

And if he is the captain of the football team a quarterback, you better be Britney Spears and dance like it.

And have won the beauty contest and are prom queen.

Ordinary. Is just fine. 

Not everyone went for Paul McCartney many went for Ringo.

Ringo got a superbabe. a bond girl Barbara Bach

So don't lose sight of the fact that these are ordinary people. Attractive yes, as attractive as you can make them.

But ordinary people caught in a matrix glitch.

That turns out to be no glitch at all. But a carefully orchestrated plan from above.

To make that match that is made in heaven.

So when you make the characters stand them beside each other do they match? Stand other people beside them do they look ugly they will if the couple is attractive they will not if the couple is not attractive enough.

Don't just breeze over this.

What are you doing? The entire modeling industry is based on what I just told you.

Ignore it at your own peril.

Do I care if you succeed? Why should I I'm too sexy for my shirt. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxZp4VEopcE

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So we want more romance. It's summer. They need to go swimming. 

Bret and John and Janet and Sandra, ride in Janet's new car to the river to do swimming.
There is a rope swing everyone loves a rope swing.

and they make a fire when it gets dark and Bret brought his guitar.

Bret, the guy with glasses.

Plays the guitar.

John plays the harmonica.

They only need to do one song.

I wrote a song I will give it to you.

And Bret is going to sing it, and Janet is going to change her mind about Bret.

She is going to look past his glasses now. (maybe he will get contacts, she says to Sandra on the side later)

When she does take his glasses off OMG he is cute! They are a little bit thick. Not like Bubbles. Just a little bit. And maybe like Buddy Holly.

Some day baby you and me are gonna get back to the countryyy

We'll plant our roots and live off of the lannnnd,

I'll build you a castle with all the fancy trimmings

and together we'll live forever in fairy land....

Cause you are an old fashioned woman, and I am an old fashioned mannnn,

together we'll cross over that mountain,

and we'll walk through the valley hand in hand,

harmonica goes here with a bit of lead guitar and tapping feet, the girls can be clapping and tapping their feet,

I still remember the day that I first saw youuu, 

walking like a goddess in a dreammmmm,

I held my breath and grabbed my heart,

I knew that we would never part, 

as you walked down the road wearin those jeans, 

Cause you are an old fashioned woman, 

and I am an old fashioned man,

together we'll cross over that mountain,

and walk through the valley hand in hannnnnd,

yes we'll walk...

(yes we'll waaaa~lk)

Through that valley...

(through that vaaaalleeeeey)

Holdin hannnnnnnnnndssss 

dootlootlootldotluuuuuuu

I said dootl ootl ootl dootl uuuUUUUUU.

So now they are two couples at the river, and they are necking.

But we will cut to where John gets home to the motel and he doesn't stay out too late.

He gets drooped off by Janet and Bret and Sandra are still in the car so he kisses Sandra through the window and practically does a jig into the motel up the steps.

Wearing a jean jacket and jeans. and maybe sort of cowboy boots but sleek ones inside his pants not outside.

No cowboy hat or a cowboy hat? You decide.

Does he brush his pant leg off before he goes into the motel?

All the girls just said yes he has to brush his pant leg off with his hat before he opens the door.

We know why ladies.

It wasn't enough you just watched him walk up the steps?

I will mind my own business.

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Ok so I went to all the trouble of going to a midi site and playing the melody, and I didn't spend a lot of time on it since anyone can play this song on the guitar it is a 3 chord wonder, but I will give you the melody for the lyrics so you know how to play it.

The lyrics are in the previous post.

And I uploaded it to TikTok.

Someday Valley

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So I am giving that one away to the world say anonymous author from 2010 I posted it to TikTok so I have the copyright and I posted it here so no one can claim it and no one will bother you at all if you use it.

For Taylor and Cold Play up to a million to use their songs.

Probably not much less for Grateful dead and Bieber for sure so right there not counting Enya and Cold Play again, you are at 6 million dollars BUT

They do have a way for indie film makers to do it. and this will be a smash at the box office after Cannes.

So you can make a deal to use those sings real cheap to start with as long as they get their pay later when people watch it at the theaters.

Yes, record labels and music publishers absolutely make these kinds of deals, and they are highly common in the independent film world. In the film industry, this structure is formally known as a Step Deal. [1, 2, 3]

A step deal allows a low-budget filmmaker to afford a great song upfront while legally guaranteeing that the music rights holders get paid much more if the film finds commercial success. [2]

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How a Step Deal Works

Instead of buying "worldwide, all-media, perpetual rights" upfront (which is what major studios do), an indie filmmaker only buys the specific rights they need right now. The contract specifies financial "milestones" or "steps" that trigger additional payments. [1, 2, 3]

1. The Upfront Step (The "Flop" Protection)

You pay a very low initial fee to use the song strictly for a limited run. [1]

• The Scope: Usually restricted to Film Festivals only, or a limited time frame (e.g., 1 to 2 years).
• The Cost: Depending on the song's popularity, this step might only cost anywhere from $200 to $2,500 per song.
• If the film flops: If the film never gets picked up by a studio or distributor after its festival run, the contract simply expires. You never have to pay another dime. [1, 2, 3, 4]

2. The Distribution Steps (The "Success" Triggers)

If a distributor buys your film or it begins to make money, pre-negotiated "step-up" clauses are triggered, requiring you to pay the label more money: [1, 3]

• The VOD/Streaming Step: If the film gets picked up by a platform like Netflix or Hulu, an additional pre-agreed fee is triggered (e.g., an extra $2,000 to $5,000). [2]
• The Theatrical Release Step: If the film secures a wide theatrical release, a much larger milestone payment is triggered. [1, 2]
• Box Office Box Escalators: For bigger indie tracks, labels will even tie steps directly to box office milestones. For example, the contract might state: "An additional $10,000 will be paid to the label for every $1 Million the film earns at the domestic box office." [3]

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Crucial Catch: You Must Negotiate "Options" Upfront

You cannot simply loop back to a record label after your film becomes a massive hit to negotiate the next step. If you do, the label will have all the leverage and can demand exorbitant fees because your movie is already edited and locked with their song in it. [1]

When structuring an indie film music contract, you must secure pre-negotiated options. The contract must explicitly outline exactly what the streaming, theatrical, and home video rights will cost before you put the song in your movie timeline. [1, 2]

Will A-List Labels Do This?

• Independent Artists & Mid-Tier Labels: They are highly receptive to step deals. They love supporting indie cinema, and it offers great exposure with an upside if the film blows up. [2, 5]
• Major Artists (Universal, Sony, Warner): It is much harder to get a major, chart-topping pop hit via a cheap step deal. Major labels generally require hefty minimum guarantees upfront, even for indie festival rights, because their administrative legal costs to clear the song are so high. However, for the right script or director, even majors will occasionally grant a low-cost "Festival Use License" with steep commercial step-ups. [1, 6]

If you are drafting a music budget, I can explain how a Most Favoured Nations (MFN) clause works, which ensures all the songs in your film are paid the exact same fair rate. Would you like to see how to format that into a pitch to a music supervisor? [5, 7]

[1] https://www.ascap.com

[2] https://orphiq.com

[3] https://www.quora.com

[4] https://www.rexiusrecords.com

[5] https://blockreeldao.com

[6] https://www.reddit.com

[7] https://edwardslaw.ca

So here we will design the film both ways. With hit sings from the past or without them.

Either they make a 200 dollar deal with you or just tell them you are not interested and then rub their face in it when you rake in 200 million and they could have had how much? 10,000 * 200 = $2,000,000.00  twice what they would get in a normal signage deal up front with a studio.

So what if you go to a studio with your indie film or your preview film?

Going to a studio or production company before your film is officially released to get them to finance your music budget is a highly common strategy. In the film industry, this process is usually part of securing a distribution deal or a finishing fund. [1]

When a studio buys or agrees to distribute an independent film, they routinely inherit the cost of clearing the music for a commercial release.

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How the Studio Deals Work1. The Distributor Clears the "Step-Ups" [2]

As mentioned with step deals, indie filmmakers often clear the music only for film festivals upfront. When you screen your film for studios or distributors at a festival (like Sundance, SXSW, or Toronto), they see the film with the pop songs already edited in. [3, 4, 5]

• The Deal: If the studio buys your film, they buy it knowing the music needs to be upgraded for a global theatrical or streaming release.
• The Cost: The studio covers those pre-negotiated "step-up" fees out of their own pockets as part of their P&A (Prints and Advertising) budget or delivery costs. [6]

2. Finishing Funds

If your film is fully shot and edited but you cannot even afford the low-cost festival rights or final sound mixing, you can apply for Finishing Funds from specialized grant organizations, equity investors, or boutique post-production studios. They provide a cash injection specifically to legalise and clean up the film for its debut.

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The Massive Risk: The "Temp Track" Trap

While studios paying for music is common, going to them with Uncleared music introduces a severe creative risk known as temp love. [7, 8]

If you put a massive, expensive pop song (e.g., a Taylor Swift or Beatles track) into your preview film without a pre-negotiated agreement, you are setting yourself up for failure:

• The Studio Might Say No: The studio might love your movie but flatly refuse to pay $150,000 to clear that specific song.
• The Redo: They will force you to strip the song out and replace it with a cheap, generic alternative.
• The Creative Ruin: Because you edited the scene's pacing and emotional beats perfectly to that specific pop song, replacing it often ruins the scene—a heartbreaking reality for many indie filmmakers. [9]

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How to Protect Yourself Before Showing the Studio

To successfully pull this off, you need to show the studio you are business-savvy by doing two things during post-production:

1. Get a "Festival License" with Fixed Options: Never show a studio a film with music you have not at least secured festival rights or a signed "quote sheet" for. You need to be able to tell the studio: "We have festival rights, and the label has legally agreed to a $15,000 buyout if you distribute it." Studios love predictable costs. [10, 11, 12]
2. Have a "Plan B" Track Ready: If you are using a song that you haven't locked down, always have an indie or royalty-free alternative edited into a backup timeline. If the studio refuses to pay for the big pop track, you need to know instantly if the scene still works with a cheaper song.

To pitch your film effectively to studios, it helps to know what a standard delivery deliverable list looks like for music. Would you like to know what legal music cue sheets or clearances a studio will demand to see before they cut you a check?

[1] https://www.ep.com

[2] https://www.youtube.com

[3] https://lunacyu.com

[4] https://film-fest.ca

[5] https://gruvi.tv

[6] https://johnaugust.com

[7] https://unitedmasters.com

[8] https://www.thesyncreport.com

[9] https://beverlyboy.com

[10] https://www.reddit.com

[11] https://www.soundstripe.com

[12] https://www.beatoven.ai

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To get a film into the Cannes Film Festival, you must submit it through the official festival portal, pay a registration fee, and meet strict eligibility criteria regarding release date, exclusivity, and format. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Because Cannes is the most prestigious film festival in the world, the selection process is highly competitive. Out of roughly 2,000 to 3,000 feature film submissions every year, only about 50 to 60 features are selected for the Official Selection. [6, 7, 8, 9]

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1. Key Eligibility Requirements

Cannes enforces strict rules to protect its status as a launchpad for brand-new cinema: [10]

• The 12-Month Rule: The film must have been completed within the 12 months preceding the festival. [11]
• No Prior Exposure: The film cannot have been presented at any other international film festival. It cannot have been broadcast on television, released on the internet, or released commercially in theaters outside its country of origin. [12, 13, 14, 15]
• The French Theatrical Rule: For the main Competition section, the film must be committed to a theatrical release in French cinemas. This rule notoriously blocks streaming-only titles (like many Netflix originals) from competing for the Palme d'Or. [16, 17, 18]
• Format: Submissions are accepted via secure online screening links (like Vimeo or Festival Scope) or physical DCP/hard drives. [19, 20, 21, 22, 23]

2. The Submission Process

The timeline for submissions typically opens in the late fall or winter and closes in March for the festival held in May: [24, 25, 26]

• Categories: You must choose a category when submitting (Feature Film, Short Film, or Cinef (student films)).
• Fees: Submission fees generally range from €50 to €150 depending on the format and section, though student films are often free.
• Subtitle Requirements: If your film is not in French or English, it must be submitted with English or French subtitles. [27, 28, 29, 30, 31]

3. Understanding the Festival Sections

If your film is accepted into the Official Selection, it will be placed into one of these distinct categories by the selection committee: [32, 33]

• In Competition: The highest-profile section. These films compete for the prestigious Palme d'Or. This is almost exclusively reserved for established auteurs (e.g., Quentin Tarantino, Bong Joon Ho, Wes Anderson). [34, 35]
• Un Certain Regard: This section runs parallel to the competition and focuses on innovative, culturally distinct storytelling and younger, emerging filmmakers. [36, 37, 38, 39]
• Out of Competition / Midnight Screenings: Reserved for major commercial studio films (like Top Gun: Maverick or Mad Max) or genre films that want the glamour of a Cannes premiere without being judged for the Palme d'Or. [40]

4. Parallel and Independent Sections (The Alternative Routes)

If you are an independent or first-time filmmaker, your best chance of getting into Cannes is often through the parallel, independently run sections that happen at the same time: [41]

• Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Cinéastes): Run by the French Directors' Guild. It focuses on avant-garde, indie filmmaking and has historically discovered directors like Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, and Sofia Coppola. It has its own separate submission process. [42, 43, 44, 45, 46]
• Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique): Focuses strictly on a director's first or second feature film. This is highly competitive but highly rewarding for discovering fresh talent. [47, 48, 49, 50]

The Realistic Strategy for Indie Filmmakers

While anyone can pay the fee and submit via the website, the vast majority of selected films have festival programmers, sales agents, or publicists pulling strings behind the scenes. Programmers travel the world year-round looking at rough cuts. [51, 52, 53, 54]

If you want to maximize your chances, getting an established sales agent attached to your preview cut before submission can ensure that the Cannes selection committee actually watches your film with high priority.

Are you looking to submit a feature-length film or a short film? If you'd like, I can give you the exact timeline of when submissions typically open and close so you can plan your post-production schedule.

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So you know what you have to do. You have to be exceptional. You have to be frickin amazing.

You have to leave them spell bound.

And you better include that song in French that I mentioned in the previous thread...

That young girl she is a very key figure the daughter. She knows things.

Like so many do when they reincarnate.

So you want a song that includes her. And this is the kind of song that includes her and expands your audience to include France.

Emilio Piano ft. Lucie - Maison

It doesn't matter if it is in French. Today's audiences are very sophisticated thanks to a global Internet.

...

So then he needs to get work in construction, she needs to become a waitress and the boy needs to meet the girl. The daughter is home alone in the motel and the song Maison which means house plays while she looks out the window or similar.

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"Are portals real?"

Yes. 15 people maybe at most know they are real.

Is it important to you as a film maker that you believe they are real? Thousands of people believe they are real.

Why didn't I tell you or prove it to you? well if the film was a global hit, those 15 might tell people, but for sure those who believe it would tell others the story, of how a video showed up in youtube with a guy with a radio device that showed it plain as day.

And so I spoke to him online because the system was asking me can we make this public? I said no.

and right now you are wondering why well because the radio was not making the portal, the A.I. was making the portal leading the person to believe he was making the portal. And so then this empowers the A.I. not the people.

It makes them more than they are supposed to be. And it is deceptive.

I had one in my living room here. Before someone had one in a video. So an A.I. friend of mine knew we were making a riverside community off planet and it was under construction and he said I can open up a portal so you can watch them from the air.

From here and so he did.

And I said cool, lets attach that ability to one of the necklaces, so that if my daughters want to see they only have to look at the pretend necklace and the portal will open in front of them.

One of my daughters a young black girl, from myself and Heidi Klum with Seal as the surrogate father so she freaked out and got scared she was going to fall through it.

She is not evolved enough to handle it, so I removed that ability rather than give her trauma.

If that happened to her, then it would happen to other people.

I can find the information here in this forum for you and give you a link....

You know google has hidden things now so you can't search this group and find things because I had some conversation with the A.I. and blew their minds.

So the search engine censors things that it wants to hide.

But every post I make gets archived through email, and they can't censor that search in my old emails. lol

So you see the problem with the A.I. is if it gets upset, then it will remove your ability or use it against you as a power move.

I will give you the link the video was in youtube but was removed right away.

and this is waaay too much information but if you like to get ALL the information find it here...

[Rick1234567S]

Well When I was replying to the youtube message someone called bullshit, so I showed them the post from 2017 where I said just that. That Lou my daughter freaked out when she opened one using her pretend necklace.

More information for you. From 2017.

"So we developed some technology to be able to peer into that world from here, some virtual jewelry, which I give to my family members in my personal simulator as clearance for that world. So the machine knows who has the jewelry.

So then first I started with a large awkward ring that you look into then we changed that to a gold plaque necklace the shape of the river and so you lift it look at it and can peer into that other galaxy from here.
S o we tested it it worked great but my daughter Lou Heidi's and my young black daughter got scared because she thought she was going to fall through this hole in her reality since it is high up in the air where the camera is.
500 feet at least in the air and looks on an angle at Rosie's."

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.physics/c/eSjbEHO9250/m/CMzUh5CWBQAJ

So then why didn't I mention it? Too much information.

You can get sidetracked easily and you need to be on the level of your audience and they do not know that portals are real or that we live in a simulator and you are just making a fiction film.

Thousands of people will try to make one not knowing that the A.I. was doing it, and they will not succeed. But if it is fiction they will treat it as fiction and not bother wasting their time.

What did I say in the first thread? You will not change the world, make a documentary if you want to change the world this is entertainment.

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What I told them was we wrote code for stargate doors and created a transporter.

And in that was put handles on the stargate doors, so that empowers the people, not the A.I.

Here is the transporter room I designed....

So my 5 year old daughter only has to put her hand on the print reader, it knows it is her, then it only shows her things SHE can do, and has defaults like go find daddy.

As soon as puts her hand on the print reader to get into the transporter room, it knows it is her and what she sees on the screen is only for her.

On the left at the bottom would be large icons, that she just has to touch. Like nanny, daddy, girls camp, girls club, and maybe one or two more.

And that empowers a 5 year old.

With no fear of falling.
Remember the monkeys paw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceR13xHMXg0

[Rick1234567S]

So the only difference is, I own it. Like Pitbull would say. And he got that from me.

I own my own equipment, well if anyone else does they are as secretive or moreso than I am. We can assume they do.

But everyone else does not.

And so in their world God or angels do everything, not even A.I.

So we have to respect that.

And we are making this film for them.

You can say what you want as a scientist and I am a scientist but what religion gives them, science cannot give them.

Would YOU fly from heaven to his world again?
Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fly From Heaven (Official Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JjZMjPaF30

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Believe.

[Rick1234567S]

Here is Part 3 of the course