Car Seat Poltvinyl

*This movie was not completed within 72 hours.
It will not be eligible for an award.

premiering Wednesday, June 25 at 6:00 PM

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Chris Dreger
Spacetrash/Grosvenor Films
Portland, OR
USA

project title: Car Seat Polyvinyl

producer: Chris Dreger

director: Hovey Grosvenor

writer: Diane Jones

cast and crew: Robert Nahurski - Camera, Assistant Producer.

tagline: A three tiered exploration of media, publicity, fame, exploitation, and public perceptions of news sensations, told through the subject of polyvinyl abuse.

treatment:

This film will be a juxtaposition about the misconceptions surrounding our perceptions of self worth and celebrity, a media/art critique on the desire that has been instilled in all of us to succeed, or at the very least, be exploited, thus achieving "success" by publicizing our failures.

Success in this case comes in the form of three persons addicted to car seat polyvinyl, questionably on the road to fame. They have a desire not only to experience plastic, but to become plastic, as their bodies slowly atrophy and succumb to the toxic by-products produced when polyvinyl is abused.

The movie pulls back to the working three documentarians, who, intent on their own parasitic rise to fame and exploitation, document the addicts for a news editorial.

This in turn is being viewed by three polyvinal clad superheros watching the addicts on TV. They mock the idea of polyvinyl addiction, while using it themselves. It is questionable whether these people are really superheros or merely deluded, calling into question the point of view and validity of the entire film and the subject of polyvinyl abuse.

Intersperced throughout will be candid, on street, news interviews of people queried on their knowledge of polyvinyl abuse.

timeline:
All filming done in one location (a house with a garage and yard) with two cameras (crew 1), except for the street interviews (one camera, crew 2), which will be filmed simultaneously throughout day one.

Logging and Editing of the film will also be done at this same location.
The film will be shot on MiniDV and edited and composited with AvidDV editing software. Titles will be produced in AvidDV or Flash.

Sound effects will be recorded straight to computer (a different computer than the editing station.)
All characters in the film are played by the same three actors.

6am- 12pm. - First third of filming: A morning in the life of three polyvinyl addicts in their home.
Interviews about the addiction; how it started, the effects, where and how they obtain it.

Shots of their squalor.

One of the addicts driving home an older model car, a test drive from a local dealership, from which the three scavage their vinyl before returning the car.

1pm - 7pm - Second third of filming.
The superheros watching and discussing the documentarian's addiction to success and the magnification of the dangers poly-vinal poses to society.

Discussion of
Scenes of the superheros in action: one well-rehearsed fight scene, flying (shots on a blue screen), denying their own abuse while imbibing.

8pm - 1am - Third third of filming: Filming the documentarians working.

The documentarians watch and log the rushes and discuss aspects of media, exploiting their subjects, and their own successes.

Editing can also start at this point, as the video is being transferred to computer.

Day 2
Finish logging all of the footage, (including the Third third of filming, and the candid interviews and film or re-film any questionable takes.
Listen to and choose the soundtrack music.
Record any necessary sound effects.
Edit the film.

Day 3 -
Final Editing and Compositing.