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Script 1
Role: idea, scriptwriting
Time: 7.2023
Brief: a film about 6 technologies behind Honda Sensing.
Synopsis:
The film is about encounters, from chance to intention to fate, between a man and a woman over a series of drives through a tunnel.
Thanks to six Honda Sensing technologies, the man, our main character, is kept safe in love-struck moments.
Script:
Open with a young man driving his red Honda City car through a city tunnel.
On the car dashboard, it's 6 PM.
On the opposite lane is an oncoming white Honda City. The Auto High Beam headlights (AHB) on his car switch to low beams when detecting the oncoming car, preventing headlight dazzle. Driving the white car is a pretty woman. She's belting out a song.
In that fleeting moment, our man experiences what can only be called love at first sight.
As her car passes, AHB headlights switch back to high beam.
6 PM. Another day. He drives through the same tunnel, hoping the coincidence might happen twice.
On the opposite lane, the same oncoming white Honda City, the same pretty woman driving and laughing, but beside her is another man.
His heart skips a beat, hands stray off wheel a bit, slightly crossing over the lane. Road Departure Mitigation (RDM) and Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS) assist him in steering the car back to the lane.
6 PM. Same tunnel. But today he sees her driving alone, crying.
6 PM. Same tunnel. This time, there ain’t no oncoming familiar white car.
Giving up looking for her, he rushes out of the tunnel. Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with Low-Speed Follow (LSF) automatically adjust his speed, keeping a safe distance from the car detected ahead.
Arrived, he steps out of his car, turns around, unaware that the driver of the car ahead him has stepped out at the very same moment is her.
Their eyes meet. Love is in the air.
Script 2
Role: idea, scriptwriting
Time: 6.2023
Brief: a film about Double A, the best quality paper.
Idea: Double A. So good. Never in your head.
Script:
ENG:
Open with a close-up of a young office woman's face. Her eyes stare into space, lost in thought. A voice-over reveals a random stream of thoughts running through her head. Completely unrelated, jumping from one thing to another. Her facial expression changes with every passing thought:
"Ugh... It's only Monday..."- Yawn.
"Oh hey!" - Animatedly smile and greet a male colleague walking by.
"Wow, girl! Those lips!!!" - A hint of envy when sneaking a glance at another girl.
"Wait... what's iron's valency again?" - Frowning, trying to recall.
"And why did she eat my last quail egg ?!" - Pissed.
"Hang on...tofu is important but MSG is not so important" - Puzzled.
"Wait. He only kissed me twice last night !!!" - Shocked.
A series of beeps interrupts her train of thought. The camera pulls back to reveal that she's been standing by the office printer this whole time, waiting for her documents to finish printing. Beside her are stacks of Double A paper boxes.
VO: Everything in your head. Except paper.
She picks up the printed pages and walks out of frame.
VO: Double A. Thick. Smooth. No paper jam. Sharp printing. Premium. So good. Never in your head.
VIE:
Mở đầu với cận khuôn mặt một cô gái văn phòng, đôi mắt cô nhìn vô định. Giọng đọc vang lên thể hiện những suy nghĩ hết sức tầm phào, trên trời dưới đất, không đầu không đuôi nối tiếp nhau trong đầu cô, biểu cảm khuôn mặt cô thay đổi liên tục theo từng suy nghĩ ấy:
“Haizz mới thứ hai…" - Ngáp.
"Ô hế lô anh!" - Cười nói với một anh vừa đi qua, mặt bán mai.
"Trời đánh cái môi gì đẹp dãy!" - Mặt ganh nhẹ, liếc trộm một cô khác.
"Nhưng mà…Fe hóa trị mấy ta?" - Mặt đăm chiêu.
"Rồi mắc gì nãy ăn cái trứng cút cuối cùng của tui!" - Mặt cáu.
"Kì nha! Đậu phụ thì chính, còn mì chính thì phụ…" - Mặt đần.
"Ủa! Tối qua ảnh hun mình có 2 cái !!!” - Mặt sốc.
Tít tít tít, tiếng báo động cắt ngang dòng suy nghĩ. Camera ra cảnh rộng, thì ra nãy giờ cô gái đợi in giấy, bên cạnh máy in là nhiều thùng giấy Double A chất cao.
VO: Everything in your head. Except paper.
Cô lấy giấy từ máy và đi ra khỏi khung hình.
VO: Double A. Thick. Smooth. No paper jam. Sharp printing. Premium. So good. Never in your head.
Script 3
Role: idea, scriptwriting
Time: 2021
Brief: a film about Dentsu Redder, written by you.
Idea: School of hard knocks.
A series of hilarious shots of babies, toddlers, kids falling, slipping, crashing, bumping into things, getting knocked hard, etc., before they could actually do things.
Script:
Open with a red door. Slow-tempo music. Ticking clock sound.
(1) The door slowly opens. A boy slowly steps into a room, dragging an oversized pillow.
(2) A group of kids sits around a table, studying. They all suddenly look up, sensing someone is approaching.
(3) Outside, a toddler chases after a running ball.
Music kicks into a fast tempo <Imagine “Don’t stop me now” song by Queen>
(2) Kids run out of the room. One knocks his head against the wall, falls flat on his ass.
(1) Boy fights another with the pillow. One gets hit, covers eyes with hand, bursts out crying.
(3) Toddler stumbles, falls, rolls himself. The ball’s gone.
(4) Girl swings too high, she flies off, lands face first.
(1) Crying boy punches back the other.
(5) A baby slips on her own pee.
(6) Kid rides a cardboard box downstairs, falls down stair by stair.
(7) Scraped knees. Muddy hands. Sulking faces.
One by one, they find ways to get back on their feet.
Super:
It’s a hard-knock life at Dentsu Redder
But we will soon learn to be
a hard knock-out.
(8) A kid charges forward and shouts like a little fighter, about to jump over a chair, only to get knocked out by a low tree branch.
Super:
…hopefully.
This script is the final assignment in a scripwriting workshop coached by director Sam Kang Li, hosted by CD Livio Grossi.
My script was voted the best script by all workshop participants. Of course it seems impossible to shoot, which i only realized much later. Still one of the best training
i've ever had. Always grateful for it.
Script 4
Role: idea, scriptwriting
Time: 9.2023
Credit:
CD: Vy Nguyễn
Copywriter: Ái Lâm, Vy Bùi
STB visualization: Khoa
Brief: a corporate film for Viettel, storytelling its belief in technology with heart, extending beyond telecommunication into every sector of society.
Idea: Because those who chose harder path shouldn't walk it alone.
Vì những lựa chọn khó, cần có người đồng hành.
Script: Based on real stories.
A bolt of lightning tears across the sky. Rain pours hard. A storm is coming. In the pitch-black night, a truck crawls up a winding mountain pass carved into the cliffside. The tiny beam of light flickers through the darkness.