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Film Lookbook by Andrew Vallentine FILM LOOKBOOK BY ANDREW VALLENTINE SummerOf05.indd 1 2/15/16 8:57 PM SummerOf05.indd 2 2/15/16 8:57 PM FILM LOOKBOOK BY ANDREW VALLENTINE SummerOf05.indd 3 2/15/16 8:57 PM SummerOf05.indd 4 2/15/16 8:57 PM A NOTE FROM ANDREW This story is incredibly personal to me, while the film is Visuals are key to this story — as in every video I direct. a work of fiction, the majority of the character and story You can expect beautifully thought out symmetrical elements are based on personal experiences I’ve had masters, with stunning natural light and longer growing up in a small town in Michigan. handheld shots that stay with our characters as they experience the joys and tragedies of the summer. The backbone of the story deals with one of our characters knowing that he is dying of liver cancer. As Capturing the way characters the film progresses so does his illness. With the support feel while listening to music in film can be difficult, of his best friends he is able to live out his life the way no one wants to watch a character listen to a song he wants, on his terms. When I was 20, I was diagnosed for three minutes; however, in real life during those with acute liver failure, and was hospitalized for over two three minutes, music can have a profound impact months. My life was put on hold, my relationships with on our emotional state and helps us make decisions friends and family were tested in the face of this disease determining what the next step will be. Summer of that left doctors clueless. ’05 uses music to its advantage, in various moments throughout the film we will watch and listen as our Unlike our main character in the film I was able characters express their emotions through songs overcome this illness. While I live with its consequences recorded live on set. The music they will be singing are daily, I am able to live my life without pain. covers of songs by popular bands of the 2000s like, The Postal Service, Rilo Klley, and The Middle East. Songs While I now live in Los Angeles, that these bands sang defined my generation but yet still having spent many summers in Michigan in my youth, feel timeless to youth today. there is something truly special about the mitten. Its midwestern charm, its gorgeous sunsets over Lake The hope is that his film will be a nostalgic throwback to Michigan, and the how it makes you feel that the world my generation, and an introduction to new music for the stops spinning and slows down for those few months younger generation. until the leaves start to change colors. SummerOf05.indd 5 2/15/16 8:57 PM LOG LINE One lifetime in one summer. Summer of 05 brings four best friends back together a year after high school at the request of their dying best friend to spend his final months together at a cabin in northern Michigan. SummerOf05.indd 6 2/15/16 8:57 PM TONE Tonally, the film should be a collision greater—the complicated process of our of different genres—drama, comedy, own becoming, the challenge of change, romance, and musical elements. The and the death of our old selves that we all world of these friends is beautiful but have to reckon with as we grow up. The burdened, whimsical but with dark tone of the movie should feel like growing edges, and always nostalgic. Summer up—it walks a fine line between comedy, of ’05 draws on the coming-of-age vibe drama, and the emotional sucker-punch of The Fault in our Stars, the relatable of music hitting us as it weaves into and and aspirational characters like in The out of our lives. Breakfast Club, and the feel of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. While the impending death of one of the characters guides the story, this should not feel like a maudlin film about a teenager’s death. Rather, this film is about something SummerOf05.indd 7 2/15/16 8:57 PM THEME Acceptance is the theme of this The characters in this story are each film. Personal acceptance of failure, wrestling with the idea of growing up. acceptance for the failures of They have come to the point in their others, acceptance of (and in a way, lives where they must make a decision acquiescence to) life and the unknowable on which path they will take as they forces constantly at work around us. But move on. Even though each character it is important to emphasize that here has made plans for who they want (or acceptance does not equal surrender didn’t want) to be, through the course or defeat. There is great comfort in of this summer, with the help of the this kind of acceptance and I want the protagonist, George, they must draw on viewers to wrap themselves in the safety, their own strength, and the strength of adventure, and opportunity that emerges others, to find a way through the crucible once we finally learn how and when to and come out the other side with the accept. fortitude to blaze forward without fear of the unknown. They can accept fear, they can accept sorrow and pain, and they can accept joy—that is what it means to be alive and truly live in each day. SummerOf05.indd 8 2/15/16 8:57 PM VISUAL DIRECTION & PLAYLIST Even in the darkest moments, there the darkest dark surrounds the light of should always be an irrevocable light at the story—George—so the lighting will the film’s core. be essential to setting the tone and mood of each scene. I am not trying to capture There should always be a distance the flashiness of a musical, rather, I’m separating the viewer from the action of interested in using practical light sources the group. The camera will be placed in to lift the story up into the truth of each ways that allows the viewer to be peering moment, to strip away as much artifice into the story, prying covertly into the as possible and the light speak for itself. conversation of our characters. The intimacy should feel intrusive and just The musical performances will be raw, out of our reach to mirror the way the stripped down, and performed live on set. friends feel unwelcome in a place that In doing so, the goal is that the viewer had always been comfortable and safe. has a moment of reprieve to accept and The blocking of the characters is also process the pain, joy, and sorrow of the crucial. The way they move around one characters. The performances will put a another should be subtle and natural. pause on the story while saturating what it feels like for the characters to be alive Coming from the realm of music videos, in that moment through the magic of I want to emphasize the importance of music and their performances. lighting throughout the film. In the story, 1. Such Great Heights - The Postal Service 2. Silver Lining - Rilo Kiley 3. Mama Said - The Shills 4. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John 5. Michigan - The Milk Carton Kids 6. Blood - The Middle East 7. Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper SummerOf05.indd 9 2/15/16 8:57 PM CHARACTER BIO GEORGE is the patriarch of his group of hopes for GEORGE. The problem now is friends. that GEORGE has been diagnosed with terminal liver disease and is given three He is funny, outgoing, well-liked by all months to live. GEORGE must now rely (homecoming king to boot!), worldly, on his friends in the way they have always and wise beyond his years. GEORGE’s relied on him. GEORGE has one tragic parents died when he was young and flaw—he has also been the guy everyone has been raised by a distant uncle for relied on, and now it’s his turn to search most of his life. His friends are his only out for help and it’s tough for him to sit on family. GEORGE is handsome and tall. the other side of the table. He’s the one that everyone goes to when any type of problem arises and he always His favorite band is: The Killers. has the solution. Everyone had high GEORGE SummerOf05.indd 10 2/15/16 8:57 PM CASTING//INFLUENCERS BRANDON SKEIE SCOTT HOYING JacK HARRIES 181,709 YouTube Subscribers 497K Followers on Twitter 2.46M Followers on Twitter 42.7K Twitter Followers 777K Followers on Instagram 1.8M Followers on Instagram 72.4K Instagram Followers 294,393 Subscribers on YouTube 4.2M Subscribers on YouTube From London KIAN LAWLEY SHAWN MENDES 2.56M Followers on Twitter 5.63M Followers on Twitter 3M Followers on Instagram 1.4M Subscribers on YouTube 3.1M YouTube Subscribers 7.9M Followers on Instagram SummerOf05.indd 11 2/15/16 8:57 PM EMILY is GEORGE’S secret crush. While EMILY is a midwesterner at heart, the minute she graduated from high school she had big city dreams. EMILY harbors a deep inferiority complex that drives her to be the best at everything she does, though she hasn’t yet found her passion in life. She loves CHARLIE, but knows things will most likely end soon for their relationship. She has always had a crush on GEORGE, but never pursued it because she didn’t want to hurt CHARLIE.
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