Posts by dan from why.movie
Alternate exposition ideas
Miami signs and light snow? Sign for exit 69, Big Beaver? Single big truck spun and flipped across both lanes? A single car half on and half off the roadway? Was a refugee running towards something… or away? A pile of cars? Empty gantry for Space Ark or launch platform from When Worlds Collide ramp…
Read MoreSequence 21 • Toilet
The conclusion of the tour. Simple, to the point. Art out of context, the great invention. How humans were able to gather en mass and create civilization. Sanitation. Undisturbed, this iconic sculpture will last thousands of years, what we will be remembered by.
Read MoreSequence 19-20 • placeholders – stronger expositions
19 house Two sides of house left standing. Hurricane? Bombing? Abandoned? Original live action has color aberrations from fisheye, so maybe reject. [What’s the epiphany or fuzzy interpretation? is there signage on door?] 20 train A rusty hopper car at the brink of a precipice, rails into nothing. Not really doing much for me now.…
Read MoreSequence 17-18 • Topsy Turvy Transportation
17 Airbus swimming Intact Airbus A380 half submerged in a steamy swamp. Perhaps the Airbus is flipped on it’s back, wings folded up in the air like a synchronized swimmer. Mediatronics promise adventure travel with icons of major cities – Eiffel Tower, Pyramids, etc. creating strange silhouettes slightly underwater (or upsidedown in the muck), accidental…
Read MoreSequence 14-16 • Wildlife
14 GMO, friend or foe? slugs with translucent bar code implants slither over a carpet of andrew jacksons. genetically engineered to clean up the aftermath? weaponized GMOz? implies money is no longer important or a even human concern, only the slugs are interested. Coincides with “outer space” audio – ALIENS! QR code for http://www.dogthemovie.com [bills…
Read MoreSequence 11-13 • Climate Change, Flooding
11-13 Climate Change, Flooding Series of 3 brick sets shots pulls back visually (stream, beach, ocean) while zooming into the geographic location, (Earth/North American Continent, A City, New York City). 11 brick stream with globe (close) A stream burbles around a weathered globe, half submerged in a cascade of bricks. There might be a bit…
Read MoreSequence 11-22 • Visual Exposition – history and current events
The opening shots especially the exposition 11-22, are covers of science fiction novels or periodicals, except with a little bit of motion, almost still life(s), animated gifs. Since these screens might also feature credits, then they could be set up almost like the covers of periodicals, with a title and then the authors and stories…
Read MoreSequence 8-10 Ejaculated into Physicality
8-9 rising tension and explosive birth Out of the darkness and into the light, hurtling through stony birth canal or rigid urethra of the penis to the tunnels exit and dramatic emergence of the divine agent into physicality, the supposedly mundane world. Along the way brief flashes of signage, both clean fonts and hand lettered…
Read MoreSequence 4-7 Uncle Joe's Lair
signage within the lair – welcome-to-dog/ We then travel metaphorically into the black of the tunnel (mystery receptive, yin, black hole), and emerge on the black of Uncle Joe’s iStone (bulging with secret intelligence, yang, quasar) which he is tossing lightly toward POV directly above his hand. The size and orientation of the rock match…
Read MoreSequence 1-3 An Ancient Monster
An Ancient Monster / Nuclear Waste Repository / Joe’s Lair / Haunted Castle / Poisoned Land overview, mediatronic tank messages – welcome-to-dog/ excerpt – 2014/10/31/rosie-shoot-and-ideas-for-opening-sequence/ could be a mad military song repeating, the humvee’s speakers instead of signs [ 10-31-14 like the announcements on Catch 22, friendly upbeat voice] Approaching over a series of still…
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