I discussed the options we talked about for producing a piece for my honours project.
I talked through the idea of adapting the story from the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The book is about a character Eddie, who dies and upon entering heaven he discovers 5 people from various points in his career who explain his life to him. The book deals with things like loss, death, forgiveness, human connectivity etc. A lot of common spiritual themes.
I'd like to take the the concept and adapt it for two characters. The concept would tell the story of a girl who, after she dies, has her journey to meet her 5 people interrupted by a wayward soul, an interloper who looks to give her the opportunity to return to life in exchange for the use of her heaven 'til she returns.
This one would give me the opportunity to develop a short piece that was very story focused.
The second story option would involve something purely of a spectacular affair. Two characters duelling it out with electricity throughout the town.
Both of these show different approaches to the use of VFX. Lynn liked the idea of going quite far with the spectacularity on the second idea but suggested I develop both to a point and see which one I begin to prefer so that will be the task for next week. I will try and develop the thumbnails further and explore the ideas more. Lynn suggested looking at things like InFamous for inspiration!
I'd like to take the the concept and adapt it for two characters. The concept would tell the story of a girl who, after she dies, has her journey to meet her 5 people interrupted by a wayward soul, an interloper who looks to give her the opportunity to return to life in exchange for the use of her heaven 'til she returns.
This one would give me the opportunity to develop a short piece that was very story focused.
The second story option would involve something purely of a spectacular affair. Two characters duelling it out with electricity throughout the town.
Both of these show different approaches to the use of VFX. Lynn liked the idea of going quite far with the spectacularity on the second idea but suggested I develop both to a point and see which one I begin to prefer so that will be the task for next week. I will try and develop the thumbnails further and explore the ideas more. Lynn suggested looking at things like InFamous for inspiration!
This is a pretty cool concept and it would be a lot more fun to develop this!
Lynn suggested I take stills and draw on some effects so I'll have a play and try to develop some images that can show how people might look!
I need to think in terms of having a narrative that can be driven by the VFX. So I need to think of the relationship between the characters; who they are, why they are fighting, what will the ending be and how will that show their relationship?
Lynn was keen for this to stay non-verbal which is cool because I hadn't planned any dialogue in my initial thumbnails. This might make it all the more challenging but it should be a better exercise in visual storytelling if it works.
I should look at existing media for staging examples - Lynn's suggestion here was Samurai Jack, which a friend has also suggested. I have never seen Samurai Jack but I understand it to be quite stylised.
Finally, I need to make a start on my dissertation, so a final task for next week will be to write a draft of the introduction for the text.
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