Sunday, February 1

Ideas

Isaac
Travis
CJ
Jen
Evan
Steph
Francesca
Aleksei
Casey
and I met at the apartment today.

Aurora and I went back later to move furniture, but the table and couch don't fit through the doorway into the back bedroom. We need to decide what to do with them and how to dress the space if at all. I would advocate for a minimal production design except for special scenes and in the back bedroom (the shut-in and/or archivist rooms) for ease of continuity. I had the idea that there might be no water and power in the apartment to emphasize the provisional nature of the gathering there (almost like squaters). In the vein of alien travelers, I thought the characters could describe places they'd been and things they'd seen (as well as tell stories, play games, music, and perform invented "rituals") so we start to get a sense of the various experiences and personalities of the characters/actors as well as create the sense of lost people, outcasts, travelers, cult members, aliens, ghosts, maybe a terrorist cell or another room in Sartre's limbo-like hell.

Here's an idea Erin Eck sent me:
"she would spend the entire film in 99cent pink plastic house slippers and an oversized gray sweatshirt that doesn't reach her knees. she would make a serious effort throughout the music lessons and spend the rest of the time loafing around, sort of hanging by her elbows from an iron gate like the one outside michael and maya's apartment eating mexican corn snacks and staring at passersby but interacting nearly normally with the smokers that come out of the apartment ... she would also arrive with a really gigantic duffel bag, the contents of which would never be seen"

What other ideas do people have?

Tomorrow:
I plan to arrive between 9-11am
Travis 3pm
Jacob 5pm
Evan 7pm

I'm going to cook dinner in the apartment around 6pm (Evan there will be food for you), everyone is invited but let me know if you're coming so I know how much food we need (also we need a big pot to make pasta, beans, etc. as well as an on-camera mic).

1 comment:

Evan said...

Awesome. I'm bringing food, some breakfast stuff as well as pasta. I'll try to get some sauce and frozen stuff there on Tuesday when I have time to stop home.