Posts by dan from why.movie
Extended Elevator
The standard elevator pitch is how a screenwriter or director would summarize their project to a prospective producer or investor if they were riding together on an elevator from the lobby to say, the 20th floor where the producer or investor had their office. The director has only about 15-30 seconds to capture the producer’s…
Read MoreScene • Veronique enters RL
Veronique head matched to real child POV of Joe puilling V out, CG trippy vagina background POV of Veronique looking at Joe profile of swinging real baby in air and pulling back, matching vagina background Melonie’s Flarp noises bubble popping sound
Read MoreScene • Road River – Near Here, Almost Now
This is a fairy tale, which implies the opposite, no it ain’t visual – Road River flowing by, bike tire spinning. visual – Perhaps boots and pants view pumping, or just close-up of iStone with legs pumping in the background. (test this, the composition should feel very simple, uncluttered. Maybe legs pumping in slow mo,…
Read MoreScene • The Box Looses Joe
Boxes realize the must find Joe, falling in love, throws the iStone, off the map… Box is talking with words, black on beige background. “She Box, me, becomes sentient and ubiquitous simultaneously. How did I come to be, how did I grow? There is the father Gerry and the accidental uplifter, Joe.” A framed picture…
Read MoreScene • Box Ubiquity
Box Ubiquity could begin with different locations and one word for each location, as the phrase is spelled out. We are / sister! The changes propagate, a field of boxes changing from ads to the message, the wave moves across the field. There is something here between Joe getting ready to leave and the boxes…
Read MoreScene • Buffalo Joe and the Box V2
The Box is an AI diety, comprised of billions of hemp board boxes spread upon the Earth. She is manifesting as a single box in this scene while in constant communion with her totality. She is a helper entity for all humanity and in love with the character Joe, tho this emotion is unique in…
Read MoreProduction Queue
Keeping track of all the moving parts. Move all production notes for scenes here with anchors. Distribute rough I2 remaining shot list Burned boxes Joe and The Box on dune Motorcycle discovery and activation shaving and conversion Veronica and Joe Big Box Paul’s Pype Miniatures scout morning at bomb crater The Box on dune -…
Read MoreConcepts
Presage If we show snippets of post apocalyptic expositions in the Csárdás and then the full expositions later, we’re establishing a fluidity of time, where we look forward as if telling / predicting the future. Flash forwards could be a thing then. For instance in the Sequence Introduction. Could have a snippet of Joe teaching…
Read MoreRoad River
The Road River is looking down at the front wheel of the bicycle. Maybe an establishing shot with (original) Uncle Joe riding red bike, flips off, finds black bike. Continues. The road flows by like water, like life, memory, time. In effect, the Road River is Joe’s time travel device, mediated by the iStone.…
Read MoreScript Synopsis V4
V4 for I2 That’s Script Synopsis Version 4 for Screener Iteration 2. See Script Synopsis V2 for more elaborate descriptions of what each chunk is about. This replaces Script Synopsis V3. What I’m excited for feeling a sense of flow from scene to scene • describing the scenes with enough detail to know how to…
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