Kids

Time: Spring 2004
Camera: Panasonic PV-DV953
Location: my house
Lighting: generic house lights and lamps

Young Caleb and young Adrian battle it out in our computer room. I learned a valuable lesson here: kids are not cooperative. I guess I should've already known that.

Ultimately I find that this scene misses all the major points I tried to make with it, mostly by rushing through them in record time. The audience was supposed to find out:

1. Who Caleb is
2. Who Adrian is
3. How their relationship is (namely competitive)
4. The situation in the world
5. A reasonable explanation of why they're driving to a hangar

Maybe I got 1 and 2 down. 3 was just hard to communicate; I wish I had put in more dialog. 4 is really tricky. My original plan had been that while Caleb and Adrian are playing, the parents are watching TV. The newscaster is explaining how, after the attack on the United Diplomacy Center, nations have all taken sides and missiles have been launched. Thus WWIII has begun, yada yada yada.

The point was that MysteryC's people attacked the building, causing the war to begin. There even used to be scenes wherein we saw him somehow involved in starting many other wars throughout history, but none of them were practical to film.

Back to this scene. I don't remember exactly why I scrapped the news report. I think I couldn't find someone to play the anchor. Instead my dad makes an anxious phone call from my desk in a shot filmed, once again, just before the movie was completed. The shape of the lighting in the scene was created with an effect; it originally had very flat lighting that I felt wasn't dramatic.

Overall the scene is far too rushed. There needs to be considerably more explanation and character development at this point in the film.