BoC screenplay

shponglization · Post by **shponglization** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:21 pm

Hey guys, I'm currently working on a boc inspired screenplay. It will involve boc music and recreations of interviews and several famous photos. The two main characters are electronic musiscians and very similar to Marcus and Michael.

I'm having some problems with the development of the story and characters though so I came here to get some tips from fellow boc fans.

Just tell me your favourite things about boc or something you really would like to see in a film about them. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

hungry_manweaselbeast · Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:29 pm

Would be nice to see the brothers in some woods wearing wizard's robes and performing some ceremony with an old synth.

CoBoC · Post by **CoBoC** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:05 pm

BoC's story is interesting in that although their fans have over-inflated their mystique, they have retained remained calm, not let it get to their heads, and kept on being the artists that they truly are. Whenever they've heard the rumors about them being satanists, or Hexagon Sun being a cult, it's always been very strange to them. The meaning that their fans have derived or projected onto their music has almost never lined up with how the brothers really feel about it. I think it's been as weird for the Sandisons as it has for us, and that sort of really adds to their appeal and puts them on a different level from other artists. It's like once you understand them, you sort of join them in this little bubble outside the rest of the world.

That's what a BoC story would be like in my mind.

ross adey · Post by **ross adey** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:44 pm

hungry_manweaselbeast wrote:Would be nice to see the brothers in some woods wearing wizard's robes and performing some ceremony with an old synth.

hahahaa

747Music · Post by **747Music** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:49 pm

I'd like to see a film about them as youngsters in the mid 80s trying to make music. The making of AFOT. Them as kids just exploring outside all over rural and urban areas, always carrying a tape recorder of sorts with them, recording everything.

A short story could be: They hear a sound that they really want to record, but due to a crappy old recording device, they have to get closer. Getting closer means breaking into a factory, or some old man's junkyard protected by dogs. (Could even make one of the dogs Xentrix, who helps them lol) In the end they manage to record the sound and make an amazing song that they just chill out to in the woods with an old boom box in a tree.

Moebius · Post by **Moebius** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:32 am

Not that the idea is completely outlandish (there's plenty of music docs made), but this kinda sounds like a wind-up to me...

747Music · Post by **747Music** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:04 am

I just noticed your name shponglization. Fan of Simon Posford obviously? You are a friendly stranger here, but perhaps a lone deranger elsewhere? (did you get my posford pun?)

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:27 pm

hungry_manweaselbeast wrote:Would be nice to see the brothers in some woods wearing wizard's robes and performing some ceremony with an old synth.

I am SO ANIMATING THIS!

(if the screenplay is finished, hit me a pm...)

CoBoC · Post by **CoBoC** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:25 am

747Music wrote:I'd like to see a film about them as youngsters in the mid 80s trying to make music. The making of AFOT. Them as kids just exploring outside all over rural and urban areas, always carrying a tape recorder of sorts with them, recording everything.

A short story could be: They hear a sound that they really want to record, but due to a crappy old recording device, they have to get closer. Getting closer means breaking into a factory, or some old man's junkyard protected by dogs. (Could even make one of the dogs Xentrix, who helps them lol) In the end they manage to record the sound and make an amazing song that they just chill out to in the woods with an old boom box in a tree.

That's not a bad idea.

shponglization · Post by **shponglization** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:23 pm

747Music wrote:I just noticed your name shponglization. Fan of Simon Posford obviously? You are a friendly stranger here, but perhaps a lone deranger elsewhere? (did you get my posford pun?)

Yeah, Well I'm more into the Younger Brother and Shpongle-projects but Hallucinogen's got some really nice stuff as well.

shponglization · Post by **shponglization** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:26 pm

hungry_manweaselbeast wrote:(if the screenplay is finished, hit me a pm...)

Hehe no man, the script isn't nearly half finished but I've got some really nice ideas coming from all you guys here so hopefully it will be finished before the summer.

shponglization · Post by **shponglization** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:29 pm

CoBoC wrote:BoC's story is interesting in that although their fans have over-inflated their mystique, they have retained remained calm, not let it get to their heads, and kept on being the artists that they truly are. Whenever they've heard the rumors about them being satanists, or Hexagon Sun being a cult, it's always been very strange to them. The meaning that their fans have derived or projected onto their music has almost never lined up with how the brothers really feel about it. I think it's been as weird for the Sandisons as it has for us, and that sort of really adds to their appeal and puts them on a different level from other artists. It's like once you understand them, you sort of join them in this little bubble outside the rest of the world.

That's what a BoC story would be like in my mind.

Yeah I agree, if one's gonna make a film/script of the boc-story you really got to make sure to emphasize their isolation and mystique. The only problem is transforming these themes into scenes

shponglization · Post by **shponglization** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:34 pm

747Music wrote:I'd like to see a film about them as youngsters in the mid 80s trying to make music. The making of AFOT. Them as kids just exploring outside all over rural and urban areas, always carrying a tape recorder of sorts with them, recording everything.

A short story could be: They hear a sound that they really want to record, but due to a crappy old recording device, they have to get closer. Getting closer means breaking into a factory, or some old man's junkyard protected by dogs. (Could even make one of the dogs Xentrix, who helps them lol) In the end they manage to record the sound and make an amazing song that they just chill out to in the woods with an old boom box in a tree.

Cool! My script is mainly focused on the adult sandisons but maybe some flashbacks scenes could be appropriate somewhere in the script?

I'm definitely gonna consider this.

shponglization · Post by **shponglization** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:40 pm

hungry_manweaselbeast wrote:Would be nice to see the brothers in some woods wearing wizard's robes and performing some ceremony with an old synth.

Also really cool idea! Maybe it could work really well as a philosophical scene between everything else that's going on. As a break in the story for example.

I plan on having several of these "philosophical" scenes where the sandisons are doing something. For example I thought that photo where they are by the ocean could work really well as a scene where they record some ocean/nature sounds but perhaps later they are being interrupted by some people outside of their "bubble".

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:39 pm

hungry_manweaselbeast wrote:Would be nice to see the brothers in some woods wearing wizard's robes and performing some ceremony with an old synth.

Sounds like a Beta Band video.
Ah The Beta Band. Another great Scottish band beginning with B.
Sadly missed...

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:49 pm

Mexicola wrote:
hungry_manweaselbeast wrote:Would be nice to see the brothers in some woods wearing wizard's robes and performing some ceremony with an old synth.

Sounds like a Beta Band video.
Ah The Beta Band. Another great Scottish band beginning with B.
Sadly missed...

Sadly missed indeed...

Infinite E · Post by **Infinite E** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:09 pm

Mexicola wrote:
hungry_manweaselbeast wrote:Would be nice to see the brothers in some woods wearing wizard's robes and performing some ceremony with an old synth.

Sounds like a Beta Band video.
Ah The Beta Band. Another great Scottish band beginning with B.
Sadly missed...

hungry_manweaselbeast · Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:31 pm

Infinite E wrote:
Mexicola wrote:
hungry_manweaselbeast wrote:Would be nice to see the brothers in some woods wearing wizard's robes and performing some ceremony with an old synth.

Sounds like a Beta Band video.
Ah The Beta Band. Another great Scottish band beginning with B.
Sadly missed...

LOVE the Beta Band

Infinite E · Post by **Infinite E** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:36 pm

elmwood college music course represent :lol:

Moebius · Post by **Moebius** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:44 am

what are your plans for this screenplay, shponglization? is it for a class or something? just for fun?