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.
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