my final project is going to be a collage-style mash-up encompassing tons of different elements (both filmic and symbolic).
concerning production method, I plan on using as much mixed media as possible, including stop-motion animation, collage/paper cutouts, digital video, and VJ software, to achieve a highly textured feel. after effects, photoshop, final cut pro and modul8 will all be used, with an emphasis on after effects.
within the one minute time frame, there will be six different ten second segments that i work with before merging them all to flow smoothly together. these six segments will signify birth, the four elements/seasons, and death, respectively.
concerning visual style, there will be two major elements, the background and the foreground (at least for the four middle sections, the beginning and the end will deviate drastically). the use of luma and/or alpha mattes will be highly employed and create the main stylistic look of the film. the foreground will therefore function within (as a part of) and external to (independently from) the background, keeping mainly as a humanistic figure, but also encompassing the idea of oneness (as being other things, i.e. matter, particles, atoms, etc...) there is no narrative story, but rather a journey through time and space.
both elements, the foreground and the background, will go through different progressions, representative of the different aspects and factors of life and reality. the background will focus mainly on the external world, and address things such as the formation of the earth, the progression of the seasons (as the basic natural rhythm of life), the four major elements (sans ether), and then eventually death, in which there will be a convergence with the foreground element. the foreground "person" will be represented by imagery such as the emergence of the human form (evolution), the chakra system and the third eye (awakening of consciousness), universality (via DaVinci), dance, higher thought (logic and reasoning), tai chi and meditation, and finally a return to the buddah-state, in which only stillness and breath exist, as a return to the cosmic universe.
the soundtrack will also be a mash-up of music, sound effects, and possibly some dialogue, more or less all self-created.
it will [hopefully] be a journey throughout physical and meta-physical life, as explored through only one person's perspective and within a minute.
as always, this was torturous, since it is nearly impossible to use words to describe these images and ideas (hence being a filmmaker). because, keeping in suit, it will be as strange and disassociated as possible, and rather than being a listening, viewing and comprehending type of film, it will strive to be a thinking and feeling one.
storyboards:
(p.s. i suck at drawing)
production schedule:
week 1 march 23-30 finish brainstorming and creating design layout in which i know all elements of both foreground and background and their intended flow. begin to compile all elements (pictures and video to be used) and separate into categories.
week 2 march 30-april 6 experiment with after effects - what can i do, what can't i do? do timeline in after effects. determine which applications (modul8, ae, etc...) will be appropriate for which segments. begin very rough cut.
week 3 april 6-13 rough cut - tweak elements, add and subtract - whats working and whats not? shoot for solid rough cut by 13th at latest. begin compiling sound effects and creating soundtrack.
week 4 april 13-20 turn rough cut into final cut. add sound.
week 5 april 20-27 fine tune and tweaking, final effects.
april 27 - due on mini-dv and posted to blog
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