After three days of pontificating, i’ve finally somewhat decided my story. It dawned on me that this weekend my family and I are going camping in the keys. A few months ago we went on a similar trip to the Florida bay. And to my recollection it would be the perfect spot to film an adventure movie to a new island. We are renting an island for the night where I have access to film all of its feature, unbothered. Since we are driving our boat there, I figured it would be awesome to film the boat ride and make it seem like the ride over to the island that holds a treasure of some sort. I haven’t yet decided on what the island holds, but I do know that I want it to be deserted and remote giving it an expeditious vibe.
The movie intro from The Revenant, directed by, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, depicted the jungle scene perfectly and was a large influence in my story making process. The master shot is beautifully created, starting with a slow tilt over a flowing waterway that reveals three men walking through it on the right third, then proceeds to rotate around a man holding a rifle to his eye. The scene is wonderfully shot, establishing setting and introducing characters that are obviously from an old part of history, indicated by their clothes and rifles. I want to create this level of characterization and setting development through the use of as little of shots as possible, due to the time constraints. I’m going for a sort of Indiana Jones vibe on this project. The only issue I can see so far is that one of my parents has to film me walking around the island, but it shouldn’t be too bad as long as I overshoot everything.
I don’t think i will include a lot of action in the opening, mainly because I feel like a lot of information doesn’t need to be put into the intro because it may come off a cramped and forced. I just want the first shots of the boat followed by the scenery and my interactions with the island. I think i’m going to keep dialogue to a minimum because I can really have only one other actor, my dad. I’m going to go closest diving to find something that resembles an adventurer.
The movie intro from The Revenant, directed by, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, depicted the jungle scene perfectly and was a large influence in my story making process. The master shot is beautifully created, starting with a slow tilt over a flowing waterway that reveals three men walking through it on the right third, then proceeds to rotate around a man holding a rifle to his eye. The scene is wonderfully shot, establishing setting and introducing characters that are obviously from an old part of history, indicated by their clothes and rifles. I want to create this level of characterization and setting development through the use of as little of shots as possible, due to the time constraints. I’m going for a sort of Indiana Jones vibe on this project. The only issue I can see so far is that one of my parents has to film me walking around the island, but it shouldn’t be too bad as long as I overshoot everything.
I don’t think i will include a lot of action in the opening, mainly because I feel like a lot of information doesn’t need to be put into the intro because it may come off a cramped and forced. I just want the first shots of the boat followed by the scenery and my interactions with the island. I think i’m going to keep dialogue to a minimum because I can really have only one other actor, my dad. I’m going to go closest diving to find something that resembles an adventurer.
I want my character to look something like this.
Citations: Image
“Harrison Ford in Negotiations for 2 More INDIANA JONES Films.” GeekTyrant, geektyrant.com/news/harrison-ford-in-negotiations-for-2-more-indiana-jones-films.
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