(no subject)
Last night during D & D I hit upon a new feature film idea, which I refined in the shower this morning:
An Oklahoman woman's life told chronologically by year, from 1900-2006, give or take a few years. Each new scene would represent a year in her life, and so multiple actors would be needed to represent herself and the major characters around her. Since it'd need to stay within reasonable time confines, I'd limit each scene to a minute: the most salient part of that year's activities and changes.
Obviously this will lend a lot of very natural development for the characters. And the great span of time will allow me to shoot in every landscape Oklahoma offers, for the greatest visual variety. Mountains, plains, desert, forests, and lakeshore will all be featured. It will be very interesting to sum up the visual style of a single decade within ten minutes, and just imagine the stark contrast between her growing up on the barren plains to a poor family during statehood, to marrying a man involved in the Tulsa oil boom of the 1920's, all the way up to the technology-laden world of today. The key is to bring these details out, but the story arcs will come from the fulfillment or non-fulfillment of expectations about life she had as a youth.
This is a project I could do at any time, but I think it'd be fun to have her be one of the main five women in the Loads of Dames movie, a spinoff character of sorts, just as the two male leads in Loads of Dames will also have their own spin-off projects. _the_antihero, please remind me what my idea was for reusing those two characters; I remember laying it all out for you, but can't remember where I put my notes for that idea just now.
But anyway, this could be done very cheaply, and would be very easy all-around. And it also touches on a theme that has been becoming more common to me lately: that of the passage of time. I think this is what prompted my video posts. Its also strikingly similar to another idea I've toyed with, of representing a small group of people at the same age, through four different time periods. For example, how would these five teenagers' lives be any different if they had all been born in the nineteen-fifties, after we've just seen them at the same age in the 1970's. In other words, its four variations upon a theme where they're always the same age and friends with each other, but we get to see how environment affects them depending upon the age they were born in.
An Oklahoman woman's life told chronologically by year, from 1900-2006, give or take a few years. Each new scene would represent a year in her life, and so multiple actors would be needed to represent herself and the major characters around her. Since it'd need to stay within reasonable time confines, I'd limit each scene to a minute: the most salient part of that year's activities and changes.
Obviously this will lend a lot of very natural development for the characters. And the great span of time will allow me to shoot in every landscape Oklahoma offers, for the greatest visual variety. Mountains, plains, desert, forests, and lakeshore will all be featured. It will be very interesting to sum up the visual style of a single decade within ten minutes, and just imagine the stark contrast between her growing up on the barren plains to a poor family during statehood, to marrying a man involved in the Tulsa oil boom of the 1920's, all the way up to the technology-laden world of today. The key is to bring these details out, but the story arcs will come from the fulfillment or non-fulfillment of expectations about life she had as a youth.
This is a project I could do at any time, but I think it'd be fun to have her be one of the main five women in the Loads of Dames movie, a spinoff character of sorts, just as the two male leads in Loads of Dames will also have their own spin-off projects. _the_antihero, please remind me what my idea was for reusing those two characters; I remember laying it all out for you, but can't remember where I put my notes for that idea just now.
But anyway, this could be done very cheaply, and would be very easy all-around. And it also touches on a theme that has been becoming more common to me lately: that of the passage of time. I think this is what prompted my video posts. Its also strikingly similar to another idea I've toyed with, of representing a small group of people at the same age, through four different time periods. For example, how would these five teenagers' lives be any different if they had all been born in the nineteen-fifties, after we've just seen them at the same age in the 1970's. In other words, its four variations upon a theme where they're always the same age and friends with each other, but we get to see how environment affects them depending upon the age they were born in.