So my idea is based on the 50's Film Noir style, fully rotoscoped highly contrast white on black, with strategically placed colour throughout. Inspired by Sin City (heavily) style wise, but also inspired the Jack Reacher (Lee Child) books and TV series 24 for that 'kick ass' detective type character that always seems to save the day living on the edge of life. Two steps ahead of everybody else.
I was originally going to have a short 30 second - 1 minute story with a narrative spoken over the top. Then I decided to make a trailer, but have short clips from different movies (recent and old) put together to look as though they are all part of the same story. Trick is, that even though there will be scenes from Sin City, Casablanca, Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs (so far).....when its finished, it will (hopefully) look like it fits with my monologue and not just clips from movies.
So I have finished rotoscoping a few scenes and for all the hours and weeks it took me, I still have over half way to go. Here is one of the scenes:
This next one in particular took me longer than the others and I seemed to be working on it for EVER.....again...don't blink:
The plan is to exhibit this on a monitor inside a purpose built mini-movie theatre. It will be blacked out like a cinema with two seats and headphones (so no-one misses any of the monologue) and not to mention a red carpet by the entrance :)
I plan to have this running and 30 seconds minimum, and up to a minute. Although what i have so far is approximately 30 seconds and i'm not half way through yet so once all the editing takes place, no more than a minute. I think this will be just ok for people to sit through for a minute......
I have a musician/sound tech professional to work on the music for me, as I will need a Film Noir sound and the music cannot be taken from another film due to copyright.
I will keep the blog up to date with the FMP and hopefully it will turn out OK....and be quite striking :)
