Tenth Post

28/03/2010 16:10 from me




Hey, I had a read through and good points on tying up loose ends before we get started. I've answered your questions below and hopefully next time we meet we can get started on the plot and character design?



Andrew



From: rich white

Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 4:49 PM

To: Andy Richardson

Subject: RE: some film comps to maybe enter "fracture" into







AGREEEED!!!



however I think we can go through a lot of pre-production on the animation while were sorting out the script & crew, I’m working on lots of concept art, better character art, title sequence styles etc. so we can continue on with them.



MAJOR POINTS -

· Need the characters fleshing out. - Yeah each of the 7 characters needs a design. They need to be able to be ordered into when they emerge and how they're linked to each other in the mental patient's head. I still think that shadow, light, smoke and colour should play a part in the transition between personalities as well. Also the themes of the cards that aren't personalities could help to move the story along for each character. Like acceptance, denial, anger, compliance, a chaotic situation in the interrogation room etc.



· Need to decide on the exact plot (we have the story arc brief). - Yeah it's just a case of adding together all we've come up with, deciding what fits. Some of the stuff typed up now can play a big part in the plot.



· The person that has gone missing - how did they go missing? How much are they related to our D.I.D. character? - I think that the audience should be in the dark about whether she's missing or murdered or dead or whatever till the end. That she's the reason he's in the mental hospital and all the stuff happened before he was brought in. That they're looking for her because she's missing, either kidnapped by him, gone of her own accord or murdered and they're trying to get him to reveal the truth. They found something on him that belonged to the girl perhaps and that's why he's there? But each of his personalities have a different explanation as to why he's got the object and what he thinks happened to the girl. Obviously again we need to work on t with whoever will be writing the script/screenplay and work it into the story the most subtle, interesting and audience engaging as we can, though a lot of that will be down to the script writer as we said before.



· Do we need to have the missing character found...or are they just a plot point to get to the D.I.D. character & psychologist interacting? - Because of the condition the guy's in and the truth and lies being mixed up in his head, the case would more than likely end up unsolved as to finding her but some sort of closure as to know whether she's alive or dead and who killed her.



· The twist at the end - keep current idea, change/modify it slightly? - I think the audience should be lulled into a false sense of security, the feeling that the psychiatrist is really getting somewhere and the suspect/witness/aid appears to be helping them fully finally as the 'The Moon' personality, then for him to snap or something at the last minute and try to kill him saying of course he killed her or whatever. They have to subdue the criminal and the psychiatrist or lawyer hired by the hospital to represent him has to leave. The prison guard saying 'It's no use, it really looked like you were getting somewhere, but we have a feeling his condition will never truly disappear. I'm afraid with that kind of confession he'll be on death row before we know it.' obviously better worded by the script writer and altered as they see fit. The final shot should be of the guy we saw at the start being dragged out of the interrogation room by two burly hospital workers in white uniforms muttering, whispering, having a conversation with himself, his voice and accent changing to fit with the personalities at war in his head, perhaps even his face blurring or shimmering into different characters. Some of the camera techniques will also have to be worked out by whoever wants to take on the technical aspects such as camera work, lighting etc if we're doing some live action sequences or mixing live and other mediums.



· tarot cards - subtle part of the project, visual & metaphorical......OR blatant, psychics, mystics, dealing cards on screen (I vote the first idea ) - So do I lol





P.S. attached some more of my concept work, this time a kind of mood board piece for a possible title sequence style, I’m going to send revised character portrait designs over the weekend

- I like the mood board a lot. Whether we want the title sequence to appear over the top of that and shatter or start with the title on black fading into that and having the files or images work as having credits like 'directed by' added to them. They could be placed down one at a time on the table with a spotlight on them, could be a collection mounted up on a desk with the wind blowing the paper away to reveal more underneath, having a blinds effect added to them so it's like they're next to a window or they could already be laid out and have the camera move between the images with the credits appearing next to them?



Rich