ARGH, ARGH.

Yeah, yeah. It isn't Friday! damn. I can't remember if I even updated last Friday- I know I meant to...

This is a synopisis of the stuff I've been looking at. Personally, this has been a tricky sort of week for me- I've been working on additional projects, probably unwisely! It's hard to tear yourself away from something when inspiration strikes, though.


Mise en scène

Pierre Cardin is hugely influential in this project. His clothes and furniture style perfectly suits the direction that I'd like to go in with my stylistic direction- 'The clothes that I prefer are those I invent for a life that doesn't exist yet - the world of tomorrow.'. The sleek minamilism, emphasis on shapes- often impractical and jaw-dropping, are what I want. In my case, it is practical- with low budget productions, something sleek like Cardin's wardrobes work way more easily. Look at Portal! It fits with what I'm trying to do, too. Pragmatic characters in a zany world- it makes for a lot of good set ups when you take something that is on paper beautiful and graceful and slap it into the real world. People trying to work out how to open sleek, handless cabinet drawers, henchmen wearing giant shoulder pads.

Agitprop is also something I'd like to use - since there's a lead villain, it makes sense that there's a seedy underbelly anti-villain league. Agitprop is some of my favourite art- hell, Russian early 20th century propoganda is beautiful. I see the chunky, cut-out style working well in the bibles design, too, as I think about how I'm going to present data in efficient, interesting ways.

Futurism, specifically futurist architecture. San'Elia is- was? a big deal in the futurism cliche. He believed in raw, giant materials in violent colours. Think of a space-aged sort of brutalism. Fantastic stuff!


I also did development on the actual plot- more to come on that in another update.