I thought I'd reflect upon the inspirations behind my section of the portmanteau film. My section is about a man talking with death and facing his mortality.
The original script was inspired by Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels and Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the former in particular. I liked the idea of having the personification of death as a character and having a chat with those he has come to reap. The idea was one I had been interested in exploring for a while and thought that it would be a good one to use for my section of the film. I looked at stuff like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Discworld whilst writing the original script.
Once reveiwing the script and after making the decision to explore the idea of subtly within the script some of the more Discworld and Hitchhiker's Guide inspired parts were taken out and/or changed, however much of the remaining script and style of the piece remains in the final film and they remain great sources of inspiration to me. as a small reference to Discworld, becuase of it being an inspiration, the that Sam reads during the film is "Mort" the first of the Discworld books with Death as the main character.
( Scenes with Death from sky one's adaptations of Discworld novels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpaVFgOlIJ4 )
( one of my favourite scenes from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series exploring reincarnation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5jMQvgE_Vg )
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Monday, 23 January 2012
Sitting on a bench, chatting.
I thought i'd talk about where the idea of a portmanteau film came from. The idea orginated from an afternoon hanging around in plymouth with Isaac, Ben and Simon. We had just finished a session with Dan, in which we were shown "Coffee and Cigarettes" by Jim Jarmusch. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379217/ )
We were sat down on a bench chatting and I was looking at a wall infront of us, upon which we were reflected, sitting on the bench, chatting. I said that a couple of people sitting on a bench talking would be a nice and simple idea for a film. Then we all started to talk and bounce ideas off one another, Ben, I think, suggested that doing the fiilm as a portmanteau would be an interesting idea. So we all decided to split the film up into four with each of us taking control of a section, acting as writing, director etc. Each would have a similar theme of people sat on a park bench talking. That's how the idea originated.
We were sat down on a bench chatting and I was looking at a wall infront of us, upon which we were reflected, sitting on the bench, chatting. I said that a couple of people sitting on a bench talking would be a nice and simple idea for a film. Then we all started to talk and bounce ideas off one another, Ben, I think, suggested that doing the fiilm as a portmanteau would be an interesting idea. So we all decided to split the film up into four with each of us taking control of a section, acting as writing, director etc. Each would have a similar theme of people sat on a park bench talking. That's how the idea originated.
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