Ideas

I've found a good idea with the scenes, to bring drama I will cut the scenes so they are slightly jumpy, yet the camera is quite still. This cuts away character movement time, bringing faster paced shots and more action. I've decided for one scene which will contain a poker table with cards, cigars, possibly guns and knives. I will have individual scenes of the characters each laughing, serious, somewhat terrified of a visiter. The final scene will contain The Masked Man, leaving with a briefcase or bag that the thugs had brought in. I am unsure of where I will do this scene, yet I have a few ideas. It shouldn't be too hard to pull off. I am finding it tricky getting ideas for the girl, I feel she needs more scenes and a small relation to the masked man, whether he will be seen as a relative or family friend. This will be tricky, as I will play the masked man, yet I do not want my face shown in the film at all.

Week 5

I ordered my mask today and recently ordered 50 comics from random series of super-heroes has been ordered. I downloaded Fruity Loops and am hoping to make my own background music, yet in case I have found several websites offer free beats and tunes that are allowed to be used with anything, as long as it is profit-free, if they are used for profits you basically have to purchase the rights. The lyrical content is a little tricky to get working, I have never written anything similar and am hoping to tell several small stories of saving people and stopping crime, basically setting the song within a made up comic universe. I am hoping to find certain people to have parts in the film, with crime rings being taken down between scenes, so one scene they are all laughing and containing villainous themes, to being rather beaten and tossed around a room. I still need to purchase a mask for the girl, yet I don't believe it will be too hard, it won't need to appear good quality, I want it to look like something purchased from a K-Zone magazine. Unsure If i will give the girl a cape, I doubt I need it, yet it might give her character more character.

Behind the mask

I have found the mask I plan to use for “the masked man”, the mask is basically all leather and medieval looking, I have looked at hundreds of masks over the past few weeks and found I kept going back to this one, any steel or aluminum masks I found were made for masquerades or covered the whole head, which is something I would not enjoy using. I am thinking I may make the films scenes quite dramatic; involving death, violence; yet also include the comic influenced girl to bring a little light into the video. My main view on the film is to make the audience think, as I am not quite explaining a story, I plan to have many different elements in the film, to leave the audience thinking and wondering what is next, nothing expected. Originally I wanted the masked man to be seen as a more sinister character, like an anti-hero, but I’m changing my mind slightly to a more old cop type attitude, in a way he has come in terms to realize no matter how many criminals come, there will always be more, unlike the girl who mainly wants to help people not fight crime, but more or less rescue people, the complete opposite attitude. It will be tricky to pull this view off, I will most likely just give the audience the hint that she is more light hearted, easy going.

Basic Idea

In the last week I have basically been coming up with ideas for my project. My main idea was to have a comic book themed film. The film will focus on a young girl and her influence on comics and superheroes. The film will also display another character discussing his views as a “Super hero” (although may come across as rather villainous) to an unknown audience. The film will contain small scenes of television shows, comic book strips, possibly violent scenes. I hope to display music within the clips, unrelated to the actions in the clips, yet related to the theme, comics/superheroes/crime fighting. I am trying to display the film similar to a comic book and so will contain short narrating, similar to yellow boxes displayed in comic books.