#1
Blackness.
MUSIC: Fame song starts (re-made by a popular modern singer)
Fade in and out montage of each of the characters practicing or performing their specific craft. Students doing auditions. Face shots of the characters as they deal with hardships and heartbreaks.
Fame song abruptly ends. Cut to black.
Malik (VO): “Someone has to make it. Why can’t it be me?”
Then the recognizable fame logo fades in.
Title: FAME
LIVE FOREVER
SEPTEMBER 2009
#2
MUSIC: Fame song starts (re-made by a popular modern singer)
Scene of a dancer doing a cool dance move.
GFX: Each scene is in a box or frame, the scene jumps to another scene, following the beat of the song. Jumps to another scene box. Jumps to another scene box repeatedly. The Fame song hits the “remember remember” repetition and softens. Jumps to scene box of:
Jenny: “How do you know if you’re good enough?”
Starts to pan out.
Joy: “You don’t. You don’t and you never will but there’s something more important than talent and that’s wanting it so bad you live, eat, and breathe it…”
Meanwhile it pans out to reveal all the scene boxes being part of a picture that is the recognizable Fame logo. (It is one of those pictures where all the little pictures form a big picture)
Title: FAME
LIVE FOREVER
SEPTEMBER 2009
#3
MUSIC: Fame song starts (re-made by a popular modern singer)
Shot of ballet feet dancing. Shot of Alice giving her all dancing.
Karen (VO): “Performing arts?”
Shot of hands furiously playing the piano keys. Denise is concentrating on the piano.
Karen (VO): “Do you have any idea how risky that is…as a career?”
Jenny looks nervous on stage, as the audience stares at her.
Karen (VO): “You’re trying to do something everyone wants to do.”
Shot of Rosie struggling in dancing.
Karen (VO): “Every teenager on this block thinks they can make it as a rapper or a singer”
Malik and Victor work on their DJ equipment.
Karen VO: “What in the world makes you think you’re going to be the one to make it?”
A quick series of shots of looks of defiance and determination from: Malik, Denise, Jenny, Marco, Joy, Alice, Kevin, Victor, Neil, and Rosie.
Title: FAME
LIVE FOREVER
SEPTEMBER 2009
#4
MUSIC: Fame song starts (re-made by a popular modern singer)
A scene of each of the main characters preparing or practicing their particular craft while the Fame song plays.
Meanwhile VO’s of all the dramatic negative quotes in the movie like:
Kraft VO: “You will never, in my opinion, be able to support yourself as a professional classical dancer…”
Karen VO: “Performing arts? Do you have any idea how risky that is…as a career? You’re trying to do something everyone wants to do. Every teenager on this block thinks they can make it as a rapper or a singer. What in the world makes you think you’re going to be the one to make it?”
Kraft VO: “I’m just not sure where you fit in here.”
CARDS: HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT?
Title: FAME
LIVE FOREVER
SEPTEMBER 2009
#5
Shot of empty ballet room
Shot of the mirrors and bars.
NARR: ALONG THE WAY TO BEING DISCOVERED
Shot of empty orchestra room
Shot of empty orchestra seats and empty music stands.
THEY WILL DISCOVER
MUSIC: Fame song starts (re-made by a popular modern singer)
THEMSELVES.
Curtain rises. Stage lights everywhere. POV is from behind the characters as their silhouettes look out into the audience cheering for them.
Title: FAME
LIVE FOREVER
SEPTEMBER 2009
Alt. copy:
(from original tagline)
IF THEY’VE GOT EVERYTHING IT TAKES
IT WILL TAKE
EVERYTHING THEY’VE GOT
#6
(from the opening scene of the movie) Blackness
NARR: THERE ARE PEOPLE
We hear feet shuffling, instruments being tuned, and final backstage preparations being made.
WHO STRIVE FOR GREATNESS.
Then small light bulbs begin to illuminate the blackness one after another.
MUSIC: Fame song starts (re-made by a popular modern singer)
AND THEN THERE ARE THOSE
And finally the bulbs come together to create the recognizable Fame logo.
WHO STRIVE FOR MORE.
Title: FAME
LIVE FOREVER
SEPTEMBER 2009
Alt. copy:
FOR THE STUDENTS AT THE NEW YORK
SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS
YOU EITHER FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS
OR RISE TO THE TOP