Posts by dan from why.movie

Opening the Door Christina isn’t sure what’s waiting for her out there… From Chris Carden 10/05 If you need it to happen quickly, consider a lot of fast edits that compress time for the viewer but still make it clear that it’s taking her some time to take it all in. Or show the viewer…

Christina’s Date Dance concept [snip] so she’s preparing, but what is it about? girl dancing at the end of the world? a look back on the western culture, on the expression of women as individuals, referencing the past without going over the top, 70’s mod, 40’s military, 30’s elegance and film noir, 60’s love child,…

[March 17, 2019] Why.movie is a unique application of WordPress. Neither blog nor store, rather an enhancement of my own cognition, specifically with regards to a very complex project. I am deliberately offering access to anyone with a computer and some fluency with the English language because I’ve been inspired by so many others who…

Bought the domain 3EB.us. Prolly should also buy Third Earth Battalion . us √ 3rd Earth Battalion . us √ TEB . us (taken) for coverage. Premise At the close of the 20th century, the New Age Movement and the United States Military were merged in Jim Channon’s First Earth Battalion Manual. Misguided and incomplete…

Wow, another synchronicity. I’ve been building a flashback rationale based on Christina’s humming of a few notes from Veronique, a mis-remembering of the tune Dominique, a song by Dominican nun Jeannine Deckers that topped the Billboard charts around the world in 1963-64. I was singing a snippet of this on the big boat back in…

Sequins and bubble wrap conjures campfire A campfire, with sparks rising up juxtaposed with Christina and bubble wrap being popped. Close up of hands and bubble wrap with sparkle dress perhaps. We hear a hint of Christina humming and the snap of the popping bubbles. The snap and crackle of a fire and the popping…

This may not be strictly a movie making thing only, definitely applicable generally. I am not sure who first came up with the idea of modeling other’s success, but this morning I now realize that this is not the most effective strategy. In the realm of conventional feature films or 80s pop music, (USA) it…

Preparation March 1, 2019, shot list for Slam Person Lena is coming today to shoot a lone Tribal Archaic Revival preparing for the big blaze of the People’s Poetry Slam. She’s going to practice performing Arborealists, Fauna and Prelude, as well as read all the and green orange as a safety. Shot list medium to…

What’s the point of launching the first Iteration of the festival screener at Cannes? Why climb Everest? In your shorts? Because, it’s there. Here’s a few links about sending a work in progress. Of course this is a highly competitive festival. But as Shri Fugi Spilt so adeptly pointed out in the podcast, somebody has…