Lunar B 200810250526

Notes from this morning:

1. Outline of the film. What will equate to chapters of the film. There are 15 as of this update.

2. Spacecraft for Lunar B can be old Apollo Program Components that Big B and Seth get from a junkyard or on e-Bay....; or, the two can build a new system of launch vehicle, orbiter, lnder, and rover.

3. GGKB and I discussed briefly him being a possible evil nemesis. The race to the Moon will be a whole bunch of robots and Big B. My idea is that some of the competition could see him as an upstart threat to the competition and send attack-bots attached to their lunar payloads that go after B. B, of course, makes good and befriends the attack-bots... or, whatever...

4. Lunar B Production Blog and Photobucket..... use them.

5. Begin thinking of spacecrafting and sets/locations (what will work to provide the model sequences and the lunar and earthern-landscapes).

6. The Mission Control Scenes are in large part on me (Seth).

7. The first chapter of the film is "The Establishment of the Big B Moonshot Program".... what we're doing right now.... this first part has a few working elements in my mind thus far: a. Big B surfing the web comes across the competition and gets in the game... and/or b. Big B in his quest for resources runs into Seth, in mad-genius mode with the resources and willpower fm his own large-scale terraforming space program ideas. He and Big B figure they can balance out each others productive labours. and/or c. Diner scene(s) of the Big B program coming to life through elaborate dialogues. 1. This is the chance to do eiher diner/cafe scenes or elaborate "Apocalypse Now"- French Indochina Plantation Scenes where the scenes and meals are sumptuous. I am leaning towards this one because it is a nice, classy balancer to our slapstick.

8. Chapter 2, "The Building of the Components" can be where the dialogue-planning shifts into productive labours of the Lunar B Program. The meals should continue, with these dialogues reinforcing the chapters up until about Chapter 6, "The Press Conferences".

9. Chapter 5, "The Competition" is where we can delve more deeply into the "evil nemesis" of Big B. This is where we discuss elements of sabotage and attack-bots and so forth.


10. A big cinematic test will be the differential between Chapter 4, "The Big B Simulator" and the spacecraft during the actual moonshot, from launch to splashdown. Creatig a "Flow" of components incorporated into camera sleight and editing will be integral. The difficulty may arise in the two looking the same, whereas you want the actual mission to look extraordinary in comparison to the simulation.... then again, it's Big B and there's elements thereof...

11. On Terraforming. The Lunar B Payload will include terraforming experiments- like water balloons, flowers and plants, sun lamps, green, blue, and red glass and plastics for biosphereand garden pods, etc. This doesn't have to be functional or elaborate, it is there to introduce the ideas and give depth to character and situation.

12. There should definitely be some "Jack Ass" style stunts in the development of the Lunar B, but this is not to be overdone.

13. Big B's Return Vehicle should splash down in the American River near Cal Expo.



Seth