Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
New Tasks: The Second Sequence of the Film and all of its Glory: The Building of the Big B Spaceship!!!!
The Second Sequence of "Lunar B" consists of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th parts of the original outline:
2. The Building of the Components
3. The Testing of the Components
4. The Big B Simulator
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Sequence Number One: The Establishment of the Big B Moonshot Program
This is the first sequence of the film. It will be heavily visual and the dialogue will be determined later. The actions that are taking place will be laid out plainly and when we film the sequence, we'll spend some time improvising and finding the right anecdotal qualities. I'm not even sure 'anecdotal' is a word. Anyways, this leads to the staging of the film: Big B and I discussed that we wanted to make the film on a stage-like platform and challenge the boundaries of live-action, two-dimensional filmmaking. Therefore, when reading this first sequence, think in terms of us as filmmakers shooting live-action, staged horizontal layouts.
The construct for the following sequence is described as such:
If you are sitting in the audience and looking at the 'stage', the Zombies would be massing in the front rows with the Twin Zombie Queens of the Sun and the Moon a ways back from the front line and the infiltration points. The next 'line' would be the Jane River flowing from right to left. On the far shore, with Zombies pouring across the river and massing like ants, in chainlike red-queen approaches, with some of the Zombies being swept downstream to the left- there are the Guerilla Soap Camps. These are visually accentuated with the 'Hekatebolos' logo of the black bordered gold squares. I have introduced the Stations of the Cross Contingents concept to the Hekatebolos and this might be the front line array from left to right. On the right side of the City of Jane is Fashion Hekatebolos and his Army of Supermodels. On the left side of the City of Jane is Antitechnology (Jasson Drastic (and, Drastic Actions)), the Nemesis of Everything, but also an ally in many respects for being the enemy of the enemy in relation to the Zombies. The Zombies that make it through the SOTC Guerilla Soap Camps are repelled by the Supermodels and driven towards the Xenon Timing Facility where Antitechnology (Jasson Drastic and Drastic Actions) play the Opening Song. In the far back center is the Palace of Jane, where the Mayor of Jane through some technology or other announces the FBOM Initiative:
The FBOM, or First Bank of the Moon, is devised by the Mayor of Jane based on his own musings of Lunar Semaphore and Moonphase Manipulation having conceptual possibilities in influencing activity on Earth (to include submission of Zombies). He proposes that to develop the FBOM, he first needs highly motivated individuals who have a can-do attitude and launches a "Lunar X Prize"-type contest. He puts a marker on the Moon and then challenges the Citizens of Jane to send a robot to the Competition Marker. The first one there becomes the CEO of the FBOM. The others that make it get chairs on the Board of Trustees.
In between, center-stage, is Big B and his satchel of Guerilla Soap. Guerilla Soap is a Zombie-Effects Nullifier and a highly sought-after commodity in Zombie War Zones. Big B becomes at this point the focal point. He sells Guerilla Soap, has some of the Contingents protecting their favourite merchant.
The focal point shifts momentarily between Zombie Rushes with Antitechnology raising havoc in Fashion's lines, as he is always (when not killing Zombies)- hanging out with Fashion's supermodels, corrupting them over to the Forces of Punk Rock. Very operatic style here with Fashion and his Supermodels on one side, and Antitechnology moving into the lines of Supermodels, macking them, then turning a few here and there into Antitechnologies. All of this is very cartoonish and is supposed to be as such.
The focal point shifts again to the Mayor of Jane, announcing the FBOM Initiative. Big B acknoweldges and then moves towards the Army of Supermodels and hangs with Fashion, who tells him about his space program ideas and the Hekatebolos in general and asks Big B to be his Astronaut to one-up the stakes for the competiton.
We then transition into what Big B calls "The Notion and the Decision".... This is all improv right now, but it will integrate with the end of the Antitechnology song that has been rocking the whole intro and the whole, general situational picture of Jane, to include the SOTC Guerilla Soapers and the Supermodels.
The culminating shot will be several rockets being erected on launch pads as different Citizens of Jane establish their programs in response to the Mayor's Initiative. All this together make the first sequence. The OPENING CREDITS are still open for production design. They could be integrated or they could be the seguie into the secon sequence, with Big B and Fashion going over components with the OPENING CREDITS on them.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
The first component to be built for the Lunar B Spacecraft.
Primary Function: Spacecraft Identification Marking System
Secondary Function: To be determined
Tertiary Function: Hehe.
Seth Lombardy's Notes for "Lunar B", August 11th, 2008.
The man known as Big B spurned a good tiding of thought last night into the approach to filming "Lunar B" and it formed around the filming of the components and the spacecraft. I won't delve too deeply into it now, but the two-dimensional approach might be Big B's current gift to the Far-Strike getting aloft. Among other subjects, getting aloft was also one of them in trying to come up with the idea for putting the Lunar B Spacecraft in orbit. Overall, it was a good conversation.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
The Establishment of the Big B Moonshot Program
With this sequence in development, the complexity of it is being found in its dual-purpose of creating the world in which Big B and friends work and derive their existence, and to establish a brief Quale for the future Hekatebolos Films. The main drive here is terraforming other celestial bodies, namely the Moon and Mars and the spacecraft platforms that will provide the myriad of technical and support hardware for the accomplishment of terraforming. The subtle, yet forefront Zombie War on Earth is the nemesis in general, though not specific. The Zombie War is a motivating factor for the eventual terraforming platforms to be established. At first, here in the LUNAR B MOVIE, the need to approach the Zombie Problem is the initial step in the "Far-Strike". The Mayor of Jane sees the Moon as the needed objective: Moonphase Manipulation and Lunar Semaphore and exotic techniques as such will be crucial in the victory over the Feral Zombie Strain. When Big B meets Fashion Hekatebolos, Fashion already has plans for terraforming and has conducted a far-strike in his space program ideas already and this and the Zombie War, in which B sells Guerilla Soap- a Zombie Effects Nullifier (ZEN), are contributing factors to Big B's "Notion and Decision" to be the first Astronaut of the Hekatebolos and compete with the other Citizens of Jane who will compete in the Mayor's FBOM, the First Bank of the Moon, Program. The winner takes the helm as CEO, the others become members of the Board of Trustees. All of these ideas will be introduced rapidly in about 8 to 9 minutes of screentime with Drastic Actions playing the opening song, the opening credits rolling, and so forth.
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