A new, surprising and extremely helpful addition to this project: I will be working with Nyx! We got together to discuss project management orientation and how to tackle different aspects such as direction, photography, retrieving actors, extra help on the side to help with lighting, mise-en-scene elements, and more. As a result, we were able to fully develop how the film would play out, and the significance of the film opening towards acting as a prologue sequel type which I’ll explain in a moment. Before that, there is one major concern that can overthrow our current processes and diagram of how this film opening and the project will go: pray that Ms. Stoklosa will green light this film opening since it does include violence, most likely some blood, and death.
FILM OUTLINE:
Opening includes: A fight between two men, as the initial attacker kills the first - first in terms of order of character appearance - where the attacker is seen combatting his thoughts/emotions/actions and fades to white, and this is left to interpretation by the viewer through technique aspects (to be explained). Opening ends with the same very first shot (a wide, long shot) instead with a different color palette changed to one more soothing, comforting, and light-hearted, as the attacker now instead approached the first in an embrace as the two walk out of frame (embrace and walk-our not necessarily set in stone) meant to represent the film’s story as the story of these two characters, their relationship, and how it reaches the point initially viewed in the murder. Upon reaching the initially viewed murder, it will skip/replay (undetermined) the scene, but adding more scenes afterwards to further explore the themes developed. Or it just may end with an extreme wide long shot of the two characters.
Evidently, the film will embody the genre of drama, despite, and possibly enhanced by depending on how production is executed, the opening’s introduction of violence since the remainder of the film revolves around themes of examining the human spirit, bonds, friendship and love - their relationship is undetermined and frankly I feel it is not necessary to the story, mainly the opening, but to the story as a whole since I’d rather like to portray emphasis upon thematic material over specificities and it’s undetermined-ness would contribute to that. And so, this opening would heavily include the techniques discussed in the previous post with influence and inspiration from Society of the Snow’s portrayal of themes and action sequences.
Nyx and I formulated this outline and genre-centered film based upon today’s influences and ideologies. For example, the reason as to why the characters are men, with the opening, opening with violence and murder contrasted with ending in warm-hearted tones and friendship/love is because of gender norms and societal expectations. The film would revolve around questioning these sociocultural concepts, portrayed within the characters by again questioning their own identity (could range from emotional vulnerability to sexuality to societal pressure for masculinity), and breaking these stereotypes.
We accumulated research from numerous film openings, drawing upon Arrival’s opening through a tilt down and introducing the birth of a baby and communicating with the baby, symbolic and contrasted of communicating with alien life. This is an important contrast that we will attempt to portray through different material in our own opening through aforementioned techniques. Specifically, the tilt down would slowly introduce and set the scenery of the opening, to further be able to instill intended tones. For example, during this we plan to utilize a black screen/shot of the sky for credits, tilting down to introduce the opening. However, we will also use an increasingly louder ringing noise throughout the credits, silenced by the fade to white, to instill these tones.
Another example of an inspiration we plan to use for our opening is how to introduce the title - currently to be determined. Initially, we discussed to place the title before tilting down into the scene, that used a style of diction that can further instill suspenseful and eery tones like in Scream’s title card that used the connotation of the word, the sting of a scream, and a bleeding font to carry out its intended effects. However, with this being a drama opening from an intense to more mellow, warm-hearted effects, we transitioned towards something more similar to Parasite’s title opening’s serenity and Joker’s intensity.
Joker’s intensity is fully demonstrated by the context of a beating upon the main character, followed by a screaming title encompassing the entire screen, bleeding outside of frame at the edges, portraying an exaggerated use of title for the purposes of thematic development in a film. Our film opening can manipulate the similar techniques through the use of sound for exaggeration, and possibly use a bleeding title outside of the frame to define the extent of how deeply significant the emotional impacte and themes developed in the reminder of the film are in relation to the characters and the world. Additionally, this title card is used after the grotesque beating, additionally exaggerating the drama. Therefore, we plan to place the title during the fade to white after the fight previous violence to create more of an impact.
Parasite opens the title slowly in a section of the screen where there is little to no movement, as the letters form slowly, similar to a parasite infecting its host. It contrasts this movement with the rest of the screen displaying day-to-day activities of the city’s streets through a window, again contrasting by needing to peer through a window to access this life, instilling a sense of a caged life, barred from normalities and well-versed in poverty. This slow opening title formation integrated into contrasts is something very applicable into our film opening. During our title’s opening, we can manipulate the formation of the word, placement, and contrasts to develop our intended emotional impact and to signify the how a deeply rooted and powerful relationship can spiral into violence, thus developing the story’s thematic material and initially setting the tones necessary during this transition from the violence to the relationship they had prior to this event.
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