For example: Person A and person B sit with a group of people they both get along with, but A dislikes B. The viewer will see the negative thoughts per A has about B.
Ex: A will imagine a huge knife going through B's head repeatedly. The objects the abuse each actor will be animated.
For the end of the movie, everyone will see someone that they all like and greet him/her. That person will greet them back, but he/she hates everyone at the table. The movie will end with the last person daydreaming about everyone at the table being set on fire.
this could be cool, depending on how you film the imagined sequences. I say go nuts, and use both animations and do some crazy stuff on film. I'd like to see some food get thrown. I think to keep this from being a little slow you need to really push what these characters are thinking about doing to the other characters. It needs to be pretty nuts, i think.
ReplyDeleteso my three criticisms are
1. it could be real slow
2. visually it might be boring
3. are these people talking to one another out loud as well?
and my three compliments are
1. good idea to explore people's secret thoughts (push this idea!)
2. animation could be cool
3. it sounds relatively simple to film. this gives you space to experiment and let your actors go nuts.
Compliments:
ReplyDelete-I really hope this movie will be similar to your first experimental film. I think you could shoot close-ups of people's actual faces transposed with shots of their facial expressions of what they're really feeling. If you have a bad actor for example, it would be fun to experiment with conveying a mood of the person simply through editing. I'm specifically thinking of your first movie where you had some bizarre rapid shots of you doing weird things to the camera and making weird sounds. I
-I definitely think you should do some cool things with sounds mixed with character monologues of what they're really thinking.
Criticisms:
-The imaginary situations you have the characters feeling may be a little to literal. I don't need to see someone stabbing someone to show hatred. That's seems really cliche. I would like to see more artistic, symbolic ways of showing that.
-Although it was easy for you to act out in strange tangents like your first movie, it may be hard to find what you want in talent for this one. Really seek out actors that don't mind ACTING. I wanna see as a transposed shot of someone thinking about how they hate someone else, lashing out across the table with bloody looking food rolling around in their mouth.
It is always interesting to find out what people think about, but refuse to act upon. I think your concept will work in that sense. I do, however, wonder about how the characters themselves are portrayed in these daydreams. Do they continue to act as they normally do? Does the viewer get to see their reactions to being harmed?
ReplyDeleteThe most exciting part of your movie will be in its visuals, but the duration of your movie may be too long if your visuals are not handled tightly enough. I like the idea of using animated objects with live actors, but think about all the different ways you can portray the feelings of each character lashing out at another. This is a great opportunity to really get creative with your animations. Make them quirky, yet visually compelling, even using the same type of cutting as in your first video.
Interesting and brutally honest idea you have here neville. It has the potential to be both a sad and humorous interaction between several human beings.
ReplyDeleteA couple things i would avoid...
-cheetos
-overly quiet dialogue
-too much dialogue
-long, un-interrupted cuts
-dark rooms
I can't wait to see the thoughts being acted-out. Have you given thought to whether these actions will be rather realistic, or exaggerated and campy? This decision could shift the movie in any number of directions. Good luck either way, and happy shooting.
I think the characters definitely need some sort of scene to interact in. What about a dinner party? Dinner parties can be super awkward, especially when you're forced to interact with people you don't necessarily like or want to interact with. It also gives you props for the characters to play with, like doing imaginary scenes where someone throws a bowl of peas, or in which one character stabs another character instead of passing the butter. That's just one idea, but I think you definitely need a skeleton to hang your muscle on.
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