Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Plan Thus Far

My idea at the moment is essentially to create a "music" video to accompany a binaural beat. Most of my ideas for the actual film content arrived to me last night as I was falling asleep. I'm not sure why, but I've decided to make it centered around a party. A very absurdist, abstract take on one, slightly satirical, entirely happy/scary.

The shots I have in my head so far include party hat wearing, eye close ups, scooter long shots, pouring petrol and methylated spirits into party cups, falling watermelons, and extracting juice from fruit with a syringe. Obviously the structure will be a little strange, but it will by no means be non-linear. There is a definite story (but not a definite protagonist).

The story is simply preparation, journey and arrival at a party, as well as celebratory proceedings. I want to show it in a very robotic way, to remove the warmth of the idea and display it as a robotic scene. One of the techniques to help me with this is to use many people as the protagonist as once, without introducing or displaying any real character traits. I aim to film each actor for the protagonist doing every action and rapidly cut between them so as to connect them as the one character.

For now, my goal is to collect the raw sounds I will need followed by creating a script and storyboard.