Let's be honest. Who hasn't ever dreamed about being famous? Hollywood is a place of envy for young and old alike, and everyone wants their chance in the spotlight. Perhaps you've dreamt of being an actor. Or maybe you don't want to be in the spotlight yourself, but you want to support the movie production by being a cameraman or a director. Every movie has a compelling story, there's always the writers that are responsible for captivating the audience. If you have a passion for makeup or costuming, then there's a place for you in a movie to create the beautiful looks of the characters that match their personality.

Well today is your lucky day, because you get the chance to help create a highly-anticipated film! This may be your big break, or perhaps you're a veteran of filmmaking. Maybe you've been promoted and assigned with more responsibility, or--God forbid--you've been demoted and you're stuck doing easy, simple tasks. Whatever the case, you have a job, and there are people out there that would love to be in your place right now.

Of course, the production process isn't all fun and games. There are bound to be problems and obstacles that everyone has to suffer their way through. Hollywood loves a good scandal, and there's no guarantee that you won't become the victim of one. The industry is very vicious, and there might even be sabotage from rivals. What if your key actors get into a fight, and refuse to make up? Unseen adversity can, and will pop up.

Is this film going to be a success, or a failure? The results are up to you...

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Rules

• All Guild rules apply


• The post minimum is two paragraphs. But quality over quantity!


• Please please please please use good grammar! It doesn't have to be perfect, but please try your best. Capitalize proper nouns, use punctuation when appropriate, stuff like that. I'm not going to get on your case like a grammar nazi, but please make it easy to read.


• Swearing is allowed, but please keep it in moderation.


• Don’t create a Mary Sue or a Marty Stu, they will be rejected. Nobody is perfect, people must have flaws.


• Use common sense and courtesy! We’re all friends here. Be polite, and no fights in the OOC.


• Listen to what the GM says! I am your benevolent goddess… In this roleplay, at least.


• As of right now, there is a character limit of three characters. This may be subject to change.


• Let me know if you can’t post for a while, or if you’re dropping, or anything of that nature. I won’t bite your head off, I promise.


• If you are inactive for a week without notice, your character will be struck through on the character roster. If you continue to be inactive after being struck through, your character(s) will be removed from the character roster after 7 more days. While you're welcome to come back, you must reapply. If your character is struck through, but you explain why you were unable to post, your character will not be removed from the roster, on the condition that you will post in the IC in the near future. Of course, this is a case-by-case and I understand that people have obligations outside of roleplaying. I'm very flexible about this, but I'm not going to let this roleplay die because someone randomly disappears.


• Have fun! This is a requirement. Seriously, why roleplay if you’re not having fun?

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Character Information

Character Depository! Click here!
For your character sheet, please be detailed! Especially in the personality section, don’t just list off adjectives. Go into detail. Also, it would be much appreciated if you could underline, bolden, or do something to the CS skeleton to make it easier to read. You can add more to the CS skeleton if you’d like, but be sure to have the ones listed here! I have a very high standard with Character Sheets. While I won't complain about how you construct it, keep in mind that CSs are a way for me to judge how you RP.

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Jobs-At-A-Glance
Here are the taken positions!

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Movie Plot

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This OOC is still a WIP! There will be a lot of additions to this, so keep checking back!

Name: Wyatt Covet.
Gender: Male.
Age: 32.
Position: Production Designer, Wyatt is responsible for creating the visual appearance of the film - settings, costumes, character makeup, all taken as a unit. He also works closely with Luke (Director) and the Director of Photography to achieve the look of the film.
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Plopping down my interest/spot.

Now to decide if I want to be the DP, the script supervisor, or an executive producer.

Possibly the script supervisor. Or the DP. Both are fun.

Name: Maximillian Harrison

Gender: male

Age: 26

Position: Stunt man

Appearace: Max's figure looks as if it was stripped directly from a movie. His 6'2" even muscular build, lightly tanned skin, his square jaw, and smooth black hair gives him the perfect build for an action hero. He's always wanted to grow a beard, but he could never manage the feat. It would make his green eyes stand out less and make him seem just a bit more manly. It wouldn't work with his short, straight black hair, but far be it from him to care. He only wants a beard.

As for his casual wear off of the set, he still is a man who's style is perfectly suited for any sort of action. He wears light blue working jeans, large brown boots, a white T-shirt and a brown vest with aztec patterns sown in to the front. To top it all off, he wears a dark brown fedora in honor of his hero Harrison Ford.

Personality: Max is absolutely sure of his skill as a stunt man. His confidence is second to none in that profession, but anything else is just about lost on him. All he cares about is adding as much excitement to his life as possible. This care-free attitude gives him an amazingly cheery outlook on life, and can even seem a bit too optomistic for some. In fact, he was hopelessly optimistic to the point where he can be absoltely clueless. It would literally rain on his parade and he would wonder cluelessly as to why everyone was going home to watch the parade on TV. However, he's so good at his job that he sometimes forgets that its just a movie. He tosses inhibition out the door and dives in to the world of movies head on!

History: It all started in the rural area in an indistinct part of Ohio. Ever since he first saw the movie "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" when he was ten years old, Max has always wanted to be an archeologist. He absolutely loved the way that adventure seemed to flow from Indiana Jones, and was set on this path until his father explained on that very same day that it was only the stuntmen that did those things on screen like fight bad guys on biplane wings and run from boulders. With that bit of adjustment, he decided to become a stuntman. He thought that this was even better, since he could do all sorts of amazing stunts and get paid for it.

He finally got his chance when When he was 16. an independant film company arrived a few miles from his home town on the edge of the city. The film was yet another remake of King Kong, and Max happened to be watching them film when the stuntman who was supposed to fight the dinosaurs as King Kong declined to show up. It seems that he decided that this would be the perfect time to admit that he had an irrational fear of rubber suits that he failed to overcome. With the crew being short one stuntman, Max manage to get their attention before they left to start up auditions again. After five minures of gratuitous begging, he got the role of his dreams: the stunt man (or gorilla, in this case). He went on to star in many more action movies and gain a considerable reputation.

Unfortunanetly, things aren't going a smothly as planned recently. Only a year ago, a Cyclops fight scene and a misplaced foot slipping off of the filming area lead to one broken left arm on the set of the terrible adaptation of "The Iliad" and his reputation goes down the drain, even after his arm healed. He was labeled as amazingly clumsy by the press, and you all know how much his word matters after that.This didn't worry him too much. He appreciates being accepted on to the set of [RP film] but does so only so that he has another reason to be on stage and just be amazing. Nevermind his new irrational fear of the Cyclops.

Relationships:

Luke Clemens: Max didn't really know who Luke Clemens was before he got the call to be a stunt man. He had heard about the situation surrounding the guy, but he hadn't really been keeping up with only celebrities, only the ones he had been working with. He only heard about the project through an e-mail his agent had gotten. The impression he got so far wasn't a bad one. He was motivated, nice, and although he looked a little like a teenager, he seemed pretty mature. Overall, he's a nice guy.

Leila Fox:

Harris Klein:

Jake Wilson:

Phoebe J. Collins:

Leon PNB Xavier:

Amy Ho:

Vyacheslav Piotr Zolnerowich-Wahlstein "Peter Zolner":

Max Goldstein:

Addison Matthews:

Ellen Lindgren:

Nicholas Lyons:

Name: Harris Klein

Gender: Male

Age: 62

Position: Supporting Actor

Appearance:

An older, somewhat obese man, Klein tends to prefer dark clothing when out of costume.

Personality: Klein's experiences (see below) have left him embittered and argumentative. He is always the first to question the judgment of directors, writers, editors, anyone on the production staff. Typically thinking of himself as the smartest man in the room, especially when he's drunk on set, Klein has a reputation for being very difficult to work alongside. However, he takes his craft very seriously, any suggestions or objections he lodges are meant to be for the betterment of the film.

History: Harris Klein began his career as a director, writer, and actor in the late sixties, a time when film was beginning to be viewed in a very different light. His early productions were done solely for artistic purposes, and he became known for mesmerizing character studies and electrifying dramatic performances. However, as lauded as he was by critics, his projects sold little in the way of tickets. Audiences wanted to see gunfights and steamy sexual chemistry, not the struggles of men against their personal demons. Initially, he refused to compromise his artistic integrity, a struggle that pushed him deeper into a bottle and gave him a reputation as being difficult to work with. Klein slowly lost ground in the fight against the studios until he finally, bitterly renounced directing in the late eighties. However, he still needed to support himself, and so lowered himself in his own eyes by acting in other films. These days, Klein brings a certain panache and gravitas to roles of stock heavies, old mentors, and cool granddads.

Miscellaneous: Despite his attitude and alcoholism, Klein is a professional to the core. He will always be on time and meet deadlines, sober or no. He will help out other actors as necessary, meticulously track continuity, watch dailies, learn about his role.

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Character Connection

Maximillian Harrison - Ezekial Wolffe


Harris Klein - Polyphemus


Phoebe J. Collins - teapotshark


Leo P N B Xavier - Tenebrous Gaze


Max Goldstein - tanderbolt


Addison Matthews - spooner


Amy Ho - Fabricant451


Luke Clemens - Mizuho


Peter Zolner - Sixsmith


Ella Lindgren - Konica


Emmaline "Emmy" Mellier - Ex
What Jake will tell you when you ask his opinion is of Emmy he will say the same answer every time. "They don't have enough good adjectives for that one." He has said it before and will likely say it again. He loves working with her and has so from before they even met in person. The people he worked with before her who had experience with her would always rave about her. So his opinion was pretty high; especially since those people themselves were a delight to work with and highly efficient. When they finally did get to work together they immediately hit it off. So much so that several rumors about them hitting it off in other ways began to circle the crews. Jake ignored this school yard antic and just continued to enjoy working with a talented beautiful woman. He is eager to see her and catch up.

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Name: Leo P N B Xavier

Gender: Male

Age: 28

Position: Costume designer; he is responsible for every costume, both strange and mundane, that is worn by the actors in the movie. He has to organise and plan the outfits and design and produce them, or instruct an assistant on how to make them, when they have to be made from scratch. He also has to work closely with the other people in charge of the aesthetics of the film.

Appearance: While Leo is 28, he looks a lot younger and is close to 5ft, counting the mild but noticeable hunch in his back, as well as being fairly thin. He has extremely pale skin, which ends up sunburnt if he forgets to cover up. He also has jet black hair cut short and worn with a side-swept fringe, as well as a small ring on each earlobe and deep green eyes. His clothing varies wildly, tending to go towards current fashions, as well as normally wearing a noticeable amount of jewelry. He has a lot of scars on his upper body, from both injury and surgery, due to his reckless tendencies.

Personality: Leo, at a glance, is jovial and friendly towards anyone he doesn't actively dislike, as well as immensely passionate about his job. He is incredibly knowledgeable about all facets of clothing and uses this passionately to fulfil his responsibilities as a costume designer. He considers his job to be an important part of his life and takes pride in the costuming of films he works on. Outside of work he is more chaotic, unpredictable and spontaneous in his actions, which sometimes leads him into trouble. While he doesn't really care what other people think of him, he tends to stick up to anyone he feels in unfairly treated or in a situation he feels is unjust.

History: Leo was born, with a twin sister named Simha, in London. His parents regularly changed between quasi-spiritual belief systems, imposing an unstable and chaotic influence on the two. From a young age, their parents pressed the two children into acting, commercials and small parts producing money, both children only getting minor parts but managing to amass a notable amount of money. The parents managed to cheat the protection laws and take most of their children's earnings before quickly sinking it into new-age fads and investment scams.

By the time Leo and Simha were teenagers and old enough to understand what had happened, their parents had already taken the vast majority of the money. The two of them seized the rest of the money and moved out as soon as they were legally old enough, cutting all connections to their parents after successfully suing them. While his sister continued acting and made enough money to support the both of them, Leo quit acting in order to get treatment for physical deformities which had occurred due to a developmental disorder and never returned. When his sister got a part in a major Hollywood film, they both moved to America.

Although he had stopped acting, Leo still wanted to be part of film-making. No longer held back by parents stealing his money and pushing him into acting, he started to seriously follow his dreams and design costumes. He started off using his sister's contracts to get small jobs as other people's assistant making costumes for various films and gradually worked his way up, training and becoming better known in the industry until he finally got the chance to become costume designer for large films.

Miscellaneous: Leo had kyphosis due to a developmental disorder as a teenager which was treated but still left him with a noticeable hunch. He was born on August 20th, meaning that his star sign is indeed Leo. His middle names are Peridot Neptune Blaze but he attempts to keep this secret, being deeply embarrassed by them.

Ew, gross, it's Mizuho.

<3 <3 <3

I might jump in, but I'd have to read through everything first. I have class today, but I'll probably be able to read up on my touch phone, so expect a character sheet, possibly, tonight. :P

Edited my last post to include my CS.

Sixsmith said
Ew, gross, it's Mizuho.<3 <3 <3I might jump in, but I'd have to read through everything first. I have class today, but I'll probably be able to read up on my touch phone, so expect a character sheet, possibly, tonight. :P

Ick, it's Hae. <3 What are you doing here? Leave, I don't want you I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Please don't leave me Q~Q

And there shouldn't be a lot to read through besides the intro thingy, the rules are mostly the same as Caelbury.

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So many CSs submitted while I was sleeping! Yay~ they look good so far, but I'm going to wait to accept any until I can look at them closely after school, because school Internet sucks, and typing on a touchscreen is annoying. And my phone hates typing online at it literally took me 30 min to type out this post.

So while my phone is cooperating, I'm going to quickly point out some things that caught my attention and should be addressed.

Polyphemus, sorry but I don't accept personalities that only have traits listed out. It would be wonderful if you could rewrite the personality section in paragraph form.

Ezekial Wolffe, if you could edit in a description of your character's actual appearance in addition to his outfit, that would be lovely.

Again, I'll look at them more closely when I get out of school.

And please contribute plot ideas~

In regards to plot, I think we should produce an action movie. Maybe it's the first in a potential series of action movies with high hopes, and the producers have their fingers crossed for a huge success, there's a lot betting on this movie.

Stunt man has a huge role, our lovely cantankerous supporting actor looks like he would fit in perfectly, location manager will have lots to do, prop master gets to have so much fun, make up artists slap some bruises and cuts onto actors, costume designer has the opportunity to make the actors look fabulous as they kick ass, and there's a whole load of pressure on the script supervisor to help make this movie the big success its producers are hoping for.

How about it?

Mizuho said
sorry but I don't accept personalities that only have traits listed out. It would be wonderful if you could rewrite the personality section in paragraph form.

My mistake, I didn't realize this. I must have missed that part of the OP. I'll fix it right away.

teapotshark said
In regards to plot, I think we should produce an action movie. Maybe it's the first in a potential series of action movies with high hopes, and the producers have their fingers crossed for a huge success, there's a lot betting on this movie. Stunt man has a huge role, our lovely cantankerous supporting actor looks like he would fit in perfectly, location manager will have lots to do, prop master gets to have so much fun, make up artists slap some bruises and cuts onto actors, costume designer has the opportunity to make the actors look as they kick ass, and there's a whole load of pressure on the script supervisor to help make this movie the big success its producers are hoping for.How about it?

That makes sense. I'll wait until we have everyone to make my final judgements, but the action genre does seem the most...realistic? I don't think that's the right word, but you get my point.

Polyphemus said
My mistake, I didn't realize this. I must have missed that part of the OP. I'll fix it right away.

No worries ^^

I've fixed that little issue with the appearance description, just to let you know.

Before really diving into a plot it might be a good idea to discuss the one thing that will always be a focus and that is the movies budget. While not film projects, I have worked on several multimedia productions and believe me and everyone involved that how much money and where it was going is always on everyone's mind. This can be a big driving perspective for just about every character. To give an idea of how this can affect different jobs here are a few examples of where the budget could play into a character.

Director: The vision or standards they have in their brain is just not possible with the budget allowed. This could be anything from casting a high profile actor or getting a specific type of special effects for an action sequence. It also can limit how much leeway they are given as well as how much control they even have over the making of the film. Before they act the producers or production company can just ax an idea and the director is left with only other options. A conflict of reality and desire can then set in.

Actors: How much of the earnings is the actor or actress getting if the movie is a success. Many A list talent have additions to their contract in regards to the success of a movie. This can include a percentage of the ticket sales as well as first casting rights to the character if they decide to do a sequel. If an actor is not given any of these and is simply paid up front it could be viewed as a lack of faith in the actor or the movie as a whole. This could lead to an actor being over energetic in hopes of a great movie or lethargic as they have already been paid.

Crew: They may mostly have union jobs which are protected and secure, but don't let that fool anyone. They know that because of that protection they need to be always on the ball and above all efficient. A single error can result in tens of thousands of dollars being wasted and that means some people getting fired and the crew possibly being black listed. The biggest mistakes can be one guy forgetting the right camera for a field shot and having to get it overnight delivered. This also goes to just about everyone working behind the camera who doesn't have a chair with their name on it. There is also a large amount of "It will work for now" element to many crew jobs. Weren't able to get the specific track for the camera or designer for the actors to wear? Well do the best you can and you better not make anyone important blame you if it goes south.

Producers: More often than not they are the ones having to say no to everyone else asking for more money. They are the bank of the movie and also have by far the most invested in its success. This often leads to them being more involved than a full end production company. Producers who start to take over the creation of the film can cause a war between the director (the artist) and the producer (the guy paying everyone) which is an easy way to get a movie to become over budget and delayed.

This constant pressure of the budget is, in my opinion, a key point that everyone will have to address and accept at some point along with a good method to create drama, tension, or tone for the role play as a whole. I am not saying we just condemn the movie to fail due to lack of money. If I were to recommend a back drop I figure us filming a movie considered to be the next big Superhero movie, An honest suggestion would be a Wonder Woman movie. This is a pretty big issue in Hollywood with so many Marvel and DC characters headlining the summer box offices a large voice for some of them to feature female leads has begun to grow. Since the movie Catwoman with Hallie Berry was so dismal the entire industry has basically written off female superheroes. It would be a great issue to tackle with more than enough points for us to have character interactions. I would be happy to take on a senior role as a writer or a consultant if people aren't really that knowledgeable about comics and stuff.

I am hoping people read this post all the way though. I am not putting a summery section at the end because I believe everything I wrote was important. I am happy to lay out the Wonder Woman idea a little bit more if people have questions. Hope this was informative!

Finished my CS. Well, I actually finished it a while ago but it should be obvious as to why I didn't post it until now.

Thanks for that breakdown, World Traveler. I think a lot of people fail to realize that making a movie is a highly speculative business venture, not just a bunch of people goofing around and having fun.