Posts by dan from why.movie

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Indeed, there are so many areas I can’t wait to explore as a cinematic artist, miniatures galore and so on. I know that completing DOG will provide more than enough fun and will lead to an avalanche of wondrous new experiments and adventures. So we look to what’s currently on bench. We’ll need a workshop.…

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Where is the Airbus comp? This is an addendum to the conversation Josh and I had after he spent some time with the cars and snow shot. There are several approaches to completing the DOG project 1) organizing all sequences and comps into a current working cut, 2) making a detailed breakdown of every task…