Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Chase Scene Animatic
First of all, don't laugh, I know it sucks. :P Took about an hour and half to think and draw out all of this, and even from here I can tell I'm going to be doing a lot more shots than this.
The basic idea is a chase scene. Everyone in the video will be wearing black (tracksuit or otherwise), and the suitcase I'm imagining will be metal, or also black. Thinking I might want to film it sepiatone or black and white, give it a rusty or grungy sort of feel. The song is a song on depthcore made by a friend of mine, I spliced it up a bit.
I want the film to appear in ways elegant and simplistic, with many long shots for the first few setting scenes. In scene 4 the camera will actually follow the guys as they are walking down the stairs (MS). The fact that the chaser is above the chasee in this scene will make the threat seem more present. In scene 5, The guy in the hoodie is waving at someone on the bridge (where the first scene is shot), beckoning him to join him in the chase. The camera will zoom into this person and then back out to watch the person leave. At this point no one is running yet.
Scene 7, our chasee realizes he's being followed and starts running to the SAU. In shot 9 the camera pans to follow the chasee, and then pan-zooms back to where the other two are in scene 10. The camera follows them as well.
Scene 11 is broken up into multiple parts but cut in one shot. The camera follows the two as they enter SAU and head into the lobby, and decide to go down the hallway, which ends up being the wrong move. The chasee appears and gives the suitcase to a person who has been in the scene and was first believe to have been a passerby.
Scenes 12 to 16 show the two chasers earlier, now behind the fireside lounge. The person who had the suitcase handed off too exits the Fireside Lounge, goes down the stairs, and is held at gunpoint and made to drop the suitcase. He is then executed. The last thing he sees (scene 16 is shot from his perspective) is the suitcase, and then one of the chasers as he waves goodbye and leaves. Then red is seen, then fade to black. Sad ending. :( All of these shots happen pretty quickly, but the last shot is suspended for a while in order to show resolution- the man accepts he is going to die.
I'm thinking dark, black clothes, and grungy. The gun will likely be a squirt gun painted over in black, and I will need a suitable suitcase. I've wanted to make a chase scene for a while now so I think it'll make a good assignment.
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While the drawnings aren't very descriptive, I kinda understood with the additional detail you wrote. Either way, I'm wondering about the pacing of it. Is each image going to be paced the same, equally throughout the whole movie?
ReplyDeleteJust wondering.