Scrapped... Again..

     Again, as the title suggests, we scrapped our idea again. This isn't because of inability to film, or gather necessary locations or attain intended mise-en-scene elements, the opening was feasible. For example, I already have appropriate clothing to fit a lawyer in the workspace, my father would have acted as Death being he is overwhelmingly tall and owns a large dark cloak he wears for Halloween that would both instill preferred tones for a "Death" vibe, and my mother's company's workspace is similar to a generic office building location so we could have filmed there. However, I simply didn't click with the idea, and I couldn't brainstorm ideas, enjoy the work, nor did my interests align with the genres the opening would embody. Thus, we begun researching other ways to genre-align our opening additionally with our interests, again taking influence from previous film opening projects. 

    Although I currently am not set on what genre this opening idea would be, but I had begun brainstorming from what I have, what interests me, and the possibilities from the two's possible versatility. To start, artistry runs in my family amongst my siblings, as my brother was a previous student of Ms. Stoklosa's, of whom I can receive assistance from, and my siblings both enjoy drawing, painting, and other mediums of art. Personally, I aspire to be a writer, and so something consistent within each is an artist's block, which is the issue of the film, and introduced by the opening. From this, I thought of casting my sister as the main character experiencing the artist's block, using inspiration from the layout of where we live to present the mental struggle and the interior spaces to represent the struggle in a physical format. For example, I plan to completely remove all furniture from some rooms to create the sense of a serene, expanding space, which would be emphasized by the lots of natural light entering the room. Some ideas for representation are as follows: 

(brainstorming sheet)

    Noticeably, there is a large, rectangular piece, entirely black except for the very middle, which would be white and a similar piece below in reverse. The inspiration for these pieces, which I plan to create from large pieces of cardboard or canvases each representative of artist's block and surpassing the block, comes from the show Love, Death, and Robots. In the episode Zima Blue, the artist consistently, and increasingly uses a zima blue square in the middle of each piece they create, instilling an ethereal and ascendant sense of personal art. 

    This ethereal sense can be applied into the film opening by using a similar mostly black piece as aforementioned to be representative of artist's block, appearing in an abrupt manner, a scene similar to an extreme close up of a pencil breaking cutting to a black screen (an idea input by Nyx, which I enjoy). Soon I will upload most likely several storyboard outlines and discuss them to decide which interpretation would be most versatile in production and one to be proud of.