Suddenly, change!
I have decided to do something completely different to the other idea I had.
This kind of ignores the first rule of writing, You're not as interesting as you think. Don't write about yourself. But I don't really see this as being about me. It first came to me while editing the cooking footage for the Shisha project. Unintentionally I am in it, and as I was editing it I started to have a conversation with myself. Making bad puns mostly.
I started to think about how it would look on screen. Amusing at least.
This is a picture taken with an Iphone. This starts to show the visual aspect of what I want to achieve in the 3 min piece. I plan to have six versions of myself argue with each other. Now why would there be six of me in one room and why would they argue? I think the best way to explain this is to show you the script.
This weekend I have started, and hope to have done by Monday, a script for this. Here is the opening. It shows the first 3 characters, Intelligence, Innocence and Anger. The others are Righteousness, Panic and Darkness. These characters represent ways of thinking. The plot, I have just awoken with no memory of previous events and there is a dead woman on the floor. Depending on availability the woman will be pregnant. Because I think a pregnant woman being killed is much worse than just a regular woman. Anyway the 6 ways of thinking argue about how to deal with the problem.
So I started designing costumes last night. Here is what I had in mind for Intelligence. Main point for this is the lab coat. When I think of intelligence I think of scientists and doctors. His hair is well kept and his tie in place.
Now I want him to have glasses. Just not those. I was thinking of having a thinner pair.
For Innocence I started to think of how I could make myself look childish. I decided to wear my duck tie and have a lollipop in hand. I also went with the idea of having the shirt partially tucked in. Although this may change.
This is Anger. His hair is slightly messed up and he has no tie, allowing the top two buttons to be open. I'm not sure why I decided to have braces on Anger, I felt it was a nice touch but I think I will try to get hold of some that are darker in colour. Rather than the light purple shown here.
Here is Righteousness. A nice 3 piece suit all buttoned up with a royal purple tie.
Other ideas for Righteousness are a vicar or a super hero. Both are good ideas but I think I prefer this, accompanied by a strong voice that gives a feel of being better than everyone.
This idea for Darkness was to have a devil like character in human form. The classic black suit and red tie give the feel of evil business man. I first thought of having Darkness chained down or locked in a cage to show how we try to hide or control our dark thoughts. I moved away from that as I thought it would be impractical. I also considered having Darkness just be a voice. I think I will film him as shown here and if it feel wrong I can just remove the visual footage.
Lastly we have Panic. I think this was the simplest of ideas for costume, as it is just me looking rather distressed. The hair is messy and the tie is out of place. Although it is the simplest, I think it is the most effective and looks the best. Maybe it's just this picture.
Anyway that is how I intend for my 6 characters to look. Now I just need to finish the script and make a shot list. I'm really excited for this and can't wait to film it.
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