The team reviewed the current Pre-visualisation with ourselves as well as with a few of our lecturers who gave us some really good points for how to push the film.
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Talks with Dan Goodbrey
Based on the Previs we currently have, there currently isn't any introduction to the character. It was suggested that we could try showing her meditating at the beginning to create an understanding of the character so we have more reason to connect with her. The scene could transition to the forest as she looks up to the ceiling.
Within this talk we discussed the fact that we would want to try and link the temple to other earlier scenes so that the the temple is better threaded into the visual narrative of the story. The way we can thread the temple within earlier scenes could be to add props and similar textures to other scenes.
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Talks with Frank Victoria
We were recommended to create more empathy towards our character, showing more of her at the start. This way, the audience will be able to empathise with her confusion and have more reason to want to figure out what is going on.
Talks with Mark Wallman
For the city scene, Mark helped us create an idea of what we could do to push this.He recommended having the crowd of people in the shot all being the goddess. They could all be walking at various speeds, the stop and look the camera simultaneously.
He referenced "Being John Malkovich" as its weirdness is something that could inspire us.
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Group Talk
After our talks with the lecturers, we decided to meet and discuss the points and ideas they gave us and figure out how we would translate these ideas into our film.
We wanted to see how it would look if we had the opening scene show the protagonist meditating. We would be able to show more of the room she is meditating in, which would help give the audience an idea of who the protagonist is and what she likes.
For the city scene, we discussed how this would transition to the next visual scene. We discussed a few ideas and ultimately decided to have her fall into the floor and into the spiral. The floor would crack and fall apart, eating her up.
To help introduce the idea of the temple, we decided to place the pillars of the temple into the beach scene. This could look really interesting as well as having other connotations and meanings that the audience can take from the scene.
Lastly, for the temple scene, it might work best if the fire within the scene is also blue as this would allow the scene to be visually consistent rather can contrasting.
