Movie BASIC Plot Idea

[Domnopalus]

Alright, late at night last night I sort of came up with the basic sequence of events into which you can insert your own scenes depending on which part of the plot they fit. If you guys have anything to add or subtract from this, PLEASE tell us! If this is acceptable, all your scenes will fit into each of these categories when they are being arranged by the writers/storyboarders and will be put in hopefully the most effective order, attention being paid of course to those of you who have ideas in their minds where you want your scene to turn up. We'll see!

River - I have taken your highly developed idea into account, but if you can find a way to make it work better with my ideas PLEASE DO! <3 (Or possibly we can ditch my ideas XD this is just a draft VERY subject to changes.)
Interestingly, I've found that our pre-conceived notions of this basic idea are QUITE similar!

Take a look at this, meanwhile:

• Start maybe slow. Nature scenes, unspoiled animals, etc. [insert your scenes here] (*then River's idea springs into action) ((OR My idea: Scenes of wild animals, peaceful, happy dogs, etc., then focus on a resting/sleeping wolf pack. Suddenly there’s a disturbance – wolf closest to camera lifts its head quickly, ears erect and looking around. Others follow.))
  
  
• All of a sudden people come to capture! Brief scenes of different capturings – [insert your scenes here] Locking cages, nets, shackles being applied, etc. etc. of our animals before they were mutilated, then sudden BLACKNESS…pause…
  
  
• One light appears slowly near the center of the blank screen and turns into an examining table light as if you are looking up from the table into it. The ceiling and possibly equipment fades into view, then dark figures of the scientists crowd in…BLACK.
  
  
• ACTION FLASHES IN! [insert your scenes here] Torturing, pain, awful things, suffering, loss (maybe River trying to look up to the night sky for example); Interrupt action briefly for short dialogue between characters maybe in their cages or something (like, “We have to get out of here.” or something, you know.) Then resume action!
  
  
• Pause for angry Jiggsaw – “We will escape.” or something – then violent escape/destruction of labs, etc. [insert scenes here of our characters getting loose and destroying the labs, mostly with Jiggsaw (though we can show here flashbacks or flashforwards of our characters getting out if they didn’t escape exactly when Jigg escaped)] Breaking free (maybe someone breaking their chains and leaping in slow motion or something)…
  
  
• After escape, possibly blue sky. Fades into: Things slow down, more dialogue, introduction flashes of our characters doing things (doesn’t have to be in daylight or anything) [insert your scenes here]
  
  
• We see Jiggsaw (maybe zoom in on angry eye or something) and this marks the beginning of the rallying together scenes to get revenge, Jigg’s army, etc. [insert your scenes here] CONTINUE dramatic scenes with Jigg building up his army of our characters [insert your scenes here] building up---
  
  
• Until music intensifies more and more and we get split-second FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH then BLACK and we hear Jigg’s menacing voice saying something revengeful like “We are here.” Laughing would be cool here too. And then BOOM our logo – HELLION REIGN with the light changing like on the main page. Then brief credits etc. like the end of movie trailers.
  

The FLASHes will include split-second flashes of stills or very short animations of our character’s faces with extreme expressions, etc.


OKAY FOLKS. What do you think? This is just my idea which is a result of a creativity outlet, and therefore is extremely subject to change, additions/subtractions or an altogether complete REMODEL of the storyline. PLEASE FEEDBACK! <333

[River]

I love it! It's perfect. It still allows me to use River's scene but I just have to split up all the individual animations within it. So, rather than having them flashed together for a short period of time, I can have the part where he's on the table during the 4th Act(we're going to call them acts now) and use the whole "biting the camera" sequence to end that act. Oh yes, I love it indeed...

But we need to keep things simple. Flashes and stuff are fine but I haven't a clue how to do an animated zoom so it'd be nice if people could try and leave those out... unless you know how to Dom. Instead of zooms, we can have fade. You know, start out with the whole picture than fade to the already zoomed in portion of the slide. I can definately do that at least and it has the same effect. Doesn't sound like it, but I know it does. ^^

But yeah. Wootage! ^^ This is going to be awesome...

[Domnopalus]

I think an animated zoom would be relatively easy. We'd draw the full-size animation of what we wanted to be zoomed in on as if we weren't zooming. Then, we'll take the frames and enlarge them as they go on, cutting out the edges of the pictures as we get closer but the frame size remaining the same. With this in mind we'd have to draw and color the full animation at quite a high resolution. The zoom comes in last.

[River]

I suppose that would work but consider that zooming in pixelates stuff. Coloring at a high resolution makes the original slide take up way too much space to be used in production and would make the finished product ginormous.... Plus, we'd be missing a lot of details if we zoomed in on say an eye. From far away, the eye is just a circle with a dot in the middle and maybe an eyebrow. But zoomed in, you can see the tear duct, the wrinkles underneith, eye lids, details in the iris and all that stuff. So, if we zoom in on an existing picture, where the eye is only a circle with a dot in the middle, the zoomed-in version of the eye with still be a circle with a dot in the middle.

But for basic zooming stuff, I guess such a format would be satisfactory...

[Domnopalus]

The higher the resolution the less it will pixellate, is what i'm saying. Possibly we could just make a simply -bigger- image/animation for the zooming pics, then cut out and resize accordingly, if that makes sense.

[River]

I see what your saying but I don't think we can scan a large picture. I know I can't... and I can't make most images on printer paper larger enough to include most of the details...

[Domnopalus]

If you set the scanner at like 400dpi when it scans, then it will come up HUUUUGE on Photoshop, like, bigger than letter paper. Maybe your scanner is different, but next time you scan, try playing with the dpi (dots per inch) setting. This is at least what happens with me!

[River]

Oh that's true... Didn't even think about the dpi...

Well, anyway, back to plot stuffs now... Where's everyone else's feedback?

[.No.502.]

I like this, but I want to see test tubes e.o little test tube fetuses yesss....

[River]

O.O um... okay. Test tube fetuses. X3 We can put a few in the background or something, maybe have them up close in a panning sequence...

[.No.502.]

I always envision info about my chars as an elaborate flash animation, I visualize amv's for them too, just don't have a tablet or flash so I can't exactly make them T-T

[River]

I can relate. ^^ I don't have Flash either and I can only do simple basic animations unfortunately, hence why production of this thing is going so pathetically slow...

[.No.502.]

Flash sounds like it would be an investment into this though, you probably should buy that.

[River]

Agreed, but I'm going to have to wait for another computer show to come around here before I can go find it. otherwise, it's a few hundred dollars to buy, which is much too costly for my unemployed butt. X3

[Tax]

I love it. I want to help. oo; Good thing I got that thumb drive...may need a few of those. *prods slow compy*

[Jo]

Oh! I could help with the music/sound effects. My dad's a professional musician, so I can ask to monkey around with his equipment and programs.

[Sargy [Jigg]]

Woooahhh....-looks forward to it-

We were going to voice our own characters? Oh damn. I sound nothing like Jiggsaw.

[Nefarious]

Yeah, that would be a problem if we had to voice our own characters since I sound nothing like River (though I could probably pull of Torrent if I tried hard enough). O.o But perhaps we could find some lackies to voice them for us... or we could try and avoid having the characters talking. Like I doubt any of Rivers scenes have him actually saying anything...

[Malice]

alot of work trying to sync everything. we could just do all the animation and put music that worked for the setting/mood.

[Sargy [Jigg]]

I recon Jiggsaw's theme song, No Fear, would work well, as it has fast and slow parts. If you go onto the Music Player you can hear it.