Thursday, January 29, 2009

elevator pitch

idea 1: It's a subtle-chris ware comic like-film about one character's struggle to exist in the present while harmony korine gummo- like montages flash through the character's mind showing the character's past. The character also deals with the running movie in his/her head about who he/she wishes to be (famous, liked, etc.) So three types of time are existing in one movie-the present, the past, and an imaginary timeline of what the character wishes he/she had. 

idea 2:It's an abstract, very montage influenced interpretation of memory/time. It has a fun house mirror effect, everything is the reflection of a reflection of a reflection. the character is watching memories on a TV, then the camera zooms back to reveal that scene on a television and the character is watching that scene. this loops on and on.

idea 3:  The whole concept of this idea is to explore how much I can NOT show in a film and still get a story across, kind of like memento. It's suspenseful and sometimes confusing, but it keeps the viewer engaged. The film tells a story of 2 characters meeting at a party and going somewhere, and something happens that the viewer is not told resulting in one character disappearing. The whole story will not be filmed, some sequences will be shown but they will be interrupted by  flashes of black, like fragments of memory, and sound montages to give the audience clues as to what happened.  

1 comment:

  1. It sounds like you are using bits of idea 2 and 3 to make your film. The television itself, with some manipulation of the light it emits, can create some very dynamic lighting for your film. To contrast the character's past and present, you could have the color scheme of the past images greatly contrast the environment he is in as he watches TV.

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