MovieScenes

Revision as of 02:04, 25 October 2007

Nemo has this idea for the opening and closing scenes for a movie. Not any specific movie, or any type of movie. Just the imagery for the opening and closing scenes... It goes something like this:

Opening Scene

Starting with a black screen, we first see a match flare. It moves and lights an otherwise unseen object. This is a poi or firestaff. It burns as a larger flame for a moment, and then begins to move in a gracefull circle. (perhaps swinging a few pendulum-like arcs first?). The flame spins slowly at first - maybe as slow as 2seconds per revolution, but it slowly speeds up. While this occurs, it's movements begin to follow more complex patterns than a simple circle. We are watching a firetwirler, (even though we don't know it yet), so the moves should be appropriate. As the spinning flame speeds up, we sense that the camera angle is shifting and pulling back. As we pull out, we see other flames spinning to the side. Some of the other flames are different, but some would be identical to our first pattern, though apparently viewed from a slightly different angle. The reason for this becomes obvious in a moment. We're probably aiming for about 5 spinning flames on screen, all going pretty flat out by the time we fade in the surroundings. Up till now, we've only seen flame on a black screen. What we've been watching is a group of firetwirlers, but we've been watching their reflections in a curved wall of glass - that is why we have been seeing the same spinning pattern twice on screen at a different angle. We could be anywhere - a supermarket, a skyscraper, or a cluster of shops. The camera pulls back through the firetwirlers now - they're just street performers, part of a larger festival. Crowds gather and mingle and everyone's having a good time. Pulling back from the twirlers, the camera pans... (and we start the movie proper from about here)

Opening credits would be simple white (or light grey?) text alongside these scenes... or possibly in the following story-establishing shots.

Closing Scene

The closing scene of the movie would mirror the opening scene in reverse... we zoom in through a group of twirlers, zoom into the reflection... zoom into a single flame. This flame spins in complex patterns at first, but slows down and moves into simpler patterns... finally just spinning a circle. The flame weakens as starts to leave a smoke trail which dissipates behind it... finally, the flame extinguishes, trailing alot more smoke now... the object is still obviously spinning, from the source of the smoke... but it doesn't smoke for long, and the smoke dissipates. (expect maybe only 5seconds most from the flame extinguished to all the smoke dissipated and the screen is black. Roll credits.

The Opening could be used to show us just a crowded, or maybe popular area... do FireTwirlers Twirl before dawn? because that would be a great way to film this... --Gaz