Thursday, February 26

Some last ideas

I've been thinking of new things to do based on old things and stranded ideas. I've also been thinking about how to make the best use of time while keeping in mind the actions that need to be taken to close out the process. So here's an idea I'd like to start and see if we can develop for tonight or tomorrow.

We once had the idea of putting everything in the apartment into one room. I think we should do this. We can designate one room as the "stuff room" and start to pile stuff there. I can imagine it being movie-painted, with an anchor-puppeteer who stays in the room, and can squeeze people to go get something else and bring it back. From there, we have a lot of options: dialog, another puppeteer that tries to make a different room the stuff room, a command for organization and break down of stuff based on different attributes. And we can have multiple cameras running to capture the excursions back out into the apartment to find more things. And out in the other rooms, while getting stuff, there can be different commands. There's a lot of loose ends and openness to this. What do people think about that?


Second, a scene that will be shot assuming Michael and Joe are in the same place as me tonight or tomorrow. And if not, we're subbing in.

What I've started to develop a bit for characters being painted.

SHEET GHOST
Tap: Say a (musical) note.
Squeeze: Imitate auto-harp.

JOE
Tap: Ask a song title.
Squeeze: Open/close window.
Scratch: Drink tea.

JACOB
Tap: Talk about finding things outside.
Squeeze: Eat a snack.
Scratch: Offer a snack.

MICHAEL
Just keep on playin' that auto-harp and respond to the dialog around you tonally.

George has some really good ideas about how positions and camera will change and affect the painting process. What do other people think about this? Again, there's so much opportunity here, I want to here what everyone else thinks.

2 comments:

Jacob said...

both of these ideas sound good -- also the stuff moving thing could be useful if directed by aurora -- we could use the exercise to separate crap from stuff that stays in the apartment.

Evan said...

The Sheet Ghost points left or right to the things that stay and the things that will leave. Title: "The Things We Carried, Pt. 2"