Once more into the breach…
After much soul searching, I have finally decided on the short film I would like to end my short film career with (well for the time being anyway)
with the good news of The Oscars and Old Man Time both going to play in the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival. I have been focusing on making another semi short masterpiece.
Later in the year, I depart the sunny shorts of Ole’ Melbourne Towne, to further my own career and to broaden my mind in the home continent of Europe, beginning with the well trodden path in London, however, my aim to spend a wee bit ‘o time in France to simply read and to write.
2 years is the anticipated period of time i will be gone, but I am getting off topic. The Film, ahh yes, the final film in what has been a pretty amazing few years of film making for me.
Here is my ideal location for the film, alas it is in New Orleans.
Wearing the Chain: A film set whever you would like it to be, although drawing heavy stylisation from French Bayou area in Southern USA. I am talking Louisiana, New Orleans, lets live in a swamp and get eaten by a ‘gator territory, set in an undefined era, could be the 1800’s could be the mid 1900’s, hell it could even be today. It doesn’t matter.
After talking it over with a certain D.O.P friend of mine last night, we have come to a nice conclusion about the stylization or the mise en scene that we wish to portray. We spent the night analyzing films that we enjoy, and asking ourselves why we have never attempted something out of the ordinary. Like lighting a fire and filming through the haze, like Scorsese did in Ragingh Bull
I’ll keep you posted.
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All else faces you could set it in Greece in the 1940s. Loads of English and American writers tried to find their “Colossus of Maroussi” - mix a Greek “establishment” with Southern Americans and you might have the oddest film to come out of contemporary cinema. Anyway, you can always keep the idea in your pocket and if you get lucky with a European financier, you just never know, or there is always Orleans in France?
Rups
Comment by Rupert — March 12, 2007 @ 3:37 pm
That should be “fails” not faces.
Rups
Comment by Rupert — March 12, 2007 @ 3:38 pm