,Ninjas on Fire (machinema screenplay)
Posted By: peterbrooks<stay_with_the_pete@hotmail.com>
Date: 14 May 2006, 7:30 am
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#Ok so I had to whrite a screen play for a sitcom in English and hey, why not, I made a halo 2 machinema screenplay
Heres some background so you know whats going on, its not really necessary you read it, also wrote a running comentary but it would take to long to put it in in italics, and i wanted to not show the characters in the real world like in RvB but my dumb teacher insisted. I havent read this in half a year so if its bad just be nice. i just previewed it, id better put bold bits in
Genre: Sitcom (Video games and only knowing each other through the internet as comic trap)
Major Setting: Halo 2 and possibly other games
Minor Settings: Homes and workplaces of characters
Plot:
Turtle, Winky, Geronimo and Tooth (AKA Carl Griffin, Kurtis Stephens, Ernie Johnson and James MacFarlane) meet over the Internet while playing video games, they play together and form a clan called "Ninjas on Fire" (Ninjas on Fire is a metaphor which means cool). Comedy is derived from the types of people who play video games and how it affects their lives, how the characters interact (i.e. call each other gay), parodies and social comment (on the topic of video games.)
Characters:
Winky AKA Kurtis Stephens:
Sales rep. at a car yard, nickname comes from him, as a car salesman, winking in advertisements
Red armour colour, plays games when he doesn't have any customers, often pairs up with Turtle because he knows Turtle more, out of him and Turtle, he is less skilled but more of a leader.
Turtle AKA Carl Griffin:
Unemployed, his nickname, Turtle, comes from him being unemployed; turtles are lazy.
Puts all his time and attention towards games.
Always gets killed by Winky.
Geronimo AKA Ernie Johnson:
University Student, Tooth's roommate so he and Tooth are inclined to stick together when they play, but they are of equal skill and neither takes a leadership position, his nickname comes from his surname; Geronimo and Johnson both start with a "J" sound.
Tooth AKA James MacFarlane:
University Student, nickname because MacFarlane is a farmer's name and farmers are stereotyped as having bad teeth (explored in a later episode).
(Characters in the script are refered to by their nicknames in the game environment and their real names when in the real world)
Episode length: 10 min (games can last from 5 minutes to an hour)
Intended Audience: Video gamers, would also appeal to young people who aren't gamers. (About 60 percent of those surveyed said they thought it was funny from reading the script)
Parental Rating: M - Infrequent Course Language
- Adult Themes
- Violence
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Time Slot: Friday evening, possibly in a half hour slot with other machinema such as Red vs. Blue, preferably on ABC or SBS (because these channels cater for shows with more specific intended audiences)
ok you can start reading from here
Ninjas on Fire, Episode 1:
Locked Out – No Return, Part 1
Setting: 2 vs. 2, Elimination on Lockout (Halo Multiplayer)
Plot: Winky, Turtle, Geronimo and Tooth meet for the first time in a game of 2 vs. 2, Elimination on Lockout.
Turtle is convinced that Winky is gay but Winky comes up with a non-gay explanation. in a later eppisode
A social comment is made about how voice masking (used to hide your identity in an internet environment) is hard to understand.
The actions of Turtle and Winky parody Jurassic Park and American movies in general.
parody of farcry instincts evolution (" what have I done")
A fake ad such as in CNNNN parodies Lost.
Scene 1: Overview of Lockout (3 seconds)
Text: Ninjas on Fire, Episode 1: Locked Out – No Return, Part 1
Scene 2: From Turtle's viewpoint, with no heads up display. (10 seconds)
Turtle runs from bottom-library to bottom-sniper while being fired on by short SMG bursts and the screen flashing red when he is hit.
Scene 3: Close up of Turtle as he rounds the corner into bottom-sniper in slow motion. (20 seconds)
The image of Turtle freezes, shrinks and moves to the bottom right of the screen in one movement.
When this happens, it reveals a picture of Carl in the top right of the screen. The picture fills the screen and begins to move.
Carl is playing over-intently in a living room with pizza boxes and soft drink bottles.
The words "Pick up this mess or your out 'a here!" are heard from off the screen and plastic bottle flies in and hits him, but he just keeps playing.
The image of Carl freezes again, shrinks and moves back into the top right of the screen in one movement.
On the left of the screen the following text appears with a typewriter affect:
Ex. Store Person Carl Griffin
AKA Turtle
Primary Player Colour:
White
Secondary Player Colour:
Blue
Gender:
Male
Favourite Weapon:
Magnum
Thumbstick Layout:
Default, 6 Sensitivity
Scene 4: View into bottom-sniper from the ramp between sniper and grav. (10 seconds)
Turtle to Winky: Man, you got 'a help me, they're after me.
Winky: Jjj!
Turtle: What was that?
Winky: Brrr Krrrt.
Turtle: (sigh) Turn your voice masking off man, I can't understand a word your saying.
Scene 5: Close-up of Winky (15 seconds)
Winky: –Click… –Click!… –Clunk… Be quiet, (looks around suspiciously) they'll hear you (whispered).
The image of Winky freezes, shrinks and moves to the top left of the screen in one movement.
When this happens, it reveals a picture of Kurtis in the top right of the screen. The picture fills the screen and begins to move.
Kurtis is standing in front of a car yard in a white suit and a nametag.
Kurtis says, "I'll sell you car," winks, and points at the camera.
The image of Kurtis freezes again, shrinks and moves back into the bottom left of the screen in one movement.
On the left of the screen the following text appears with a typewriter affect:
Sales Rep. Kurtis Stephens
AKA Winky
Primary Player Colour:
Red
Secondary Player Colour:
Red
Gender:
Male
Favourite Weapon:
NEEDLER
Thumbstick Layout:
INVERTED (in red)
Scene 6: View of Winky and Turtle from a few metres away. (10 seconds)
Turtle: Winkie, ewww! I'll never look at you the same way again.
Winky: Your thinking of Winkie with an I. E.
Turtle: Wait! It's all coming together now. Needler, inverted… I should have figured it out earlier, (sigh).
Winky: But-
Turtle: Your sick, really really sick.
Winky: There's an-
Scene 7: Winky's viewpoint, starting off looking at Turtle.
Turtle: Look; I don't want to talk about it, man.
-A red blip appears on Winky's radar as Tooth runs from top BR to top sniper.
-Winky looks towards the entrance to bottom-sniper, pulls a shotgun out of nowhere and slowly moves behind Turtle, who is near the hole that leads down from top-sniper.
-As the blip gets close the footsteps get louder.
-Tucker pulls out an energy sword and Winkie reloads his shotgun.
-The blip keeps coming until its directly above them, then it disappears and everything falls silent.
Scene 8: View of Turtle and Winky from the beginning of grav-sniper ramp
Turtle: Its quiet…
-The Indian pan flutes from cowboy movies play.
Winky: Shut up (half whispered)
Tooth: No. There's nobody over here. Ch-
-Everything is silent for a few seconds.
Tooth: Okay. Ch-
Winky: If I don't move he won't see me. If I don't move he won't see me.
Scene 9: Winky's viewpoint.
-Short pause.
Tsssssssssssss…
-Winky looks at Turtle, who has a bright blue, hissing, plasma grenade stuck to his helmet.
Turtle: 'Nade, 'Nade!
-Turtle runs out of bottom-sniper through the door to the left yelling and screaming.
-A few seconds later a cloud of blue plasma sprays down from the top of the door to the grav-sniper ramp.
Scene 10: Shows a montage of flashbacks from earlier in the episode. (After episode 1) (10 – 15 seconds)
-Fade in
Narrator: Who is behind the mysterious blip?
Will we ever see Turtle again? (Shows Turtle with the grenade on his helmet)
What is Winky's secret?
… Secrets …
Keep watching to find out.
- Fade out
Text: Ninjas on Fire
-Text Fades out
Scene 11: Close up of Winky (slow motion)
- Fade in
- Shows Turtle getting the grenade stuck to him in the reflection off Winky's visor
- Fade out
Scene 12: Winky's vision, blurred and tinged red.
- Fade in
- Winky howls in anguish and runs up the ramp to top-sniper, where he finds Turtle. He says, "You killed Turtle," and shoots Turtle with his shotgun.
- Turtle replies in a betrayed voice "But I am Turtle" and dies.
- Fade out
Scene 13: Camera above Winky and to the left.
- Fade in
- Winky crouches above Turtle's body and says, "What have I done?"
- Fade out
Scene 14: Winky's vision, blurred and tinged red. (Slow motion)
- The chorus of One Armed Scissor by At The Drive In begins to play.
-Fades in
- Winky runs out from behind the cover at top-sniper and fires 3 rounds from his shotgun towards top-BR.
- Fade out
Scene 15: View of Winky from on top of the grav lift building. (Very slow motion)
- Fade in
- Winky shoots a 3 round burst from a battle rifle at top BR. while jumping across to top glass
- Fade out
Scene 16: Winky keeps running towards top BR in slow motion while shooting all different guns (which he pulls out of nowhere and camera angle changes randomly.
- Winky jumps up onto top-BR, where he finds Geronimo and chases him down with an energy sword.
- The chorus of One Armed Scissor ends.
Credits: recognises Halo is property of Bungie and Microsoft and other copyright information as well as voice actors etc.
Winky (as credits play): What I still don't understand is how I killed Turtle when the grenade had already killed him, or what happened to the guy who threw the grenade.
Turtle: I took off my helmet and threw it at him, and then you had to come and shoot me.
Geronimo: I saw that, it was cool.
Tooth: Yeah that was smooth, the name's Tooth by the way.
Advertisements
Advert. 1: (to be aired the week before episode 1) (~15 seconds)
Scene 1: Begins with fade in, from Turtle's viewpoint, with no heads up display.
Turtle runs from bottom-library to bottom-sniper while being fired on by short SMG bursts and the screen flashes when he is hit.
Scene 2: Close up of Turtle as he rounds the corner into bottom-sniper in slow motion.
-The image of Turtle freezes, fades to black
Text: Ninjas on Fire
Advert. 2: (after episode 1) (~20 seconds)
{it parodies Insomnia}
Setting: Backwash; swamp, dense brown fog, huge, mangrove like trees. Gametype – SWAT; no shields, human weapons.
Camera is on Winky, who is walking slowly and checking his angles, he holds a pistol in both hands.
- A shadow of a person passes across behind Winky and disappears behind a tree.
-Camera changes to Winky's view.
-Footsteps patter and squelch in the swamp
-A shadow passes across in front of Winky and to the right.
-A person giggles.
-Winky looks to the left and sees a shadow disappear behind a tree.
Turtle: Hey Winky (whispered)
-Winky spins around and shoots Turtle in the chest.
Turtle: Why did you have to shoot me? You didn't have to shoot me. Is it because you hate me?
-Turtle dies.
-Fades to black.
Text: Ninja's on Fire
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