On December 22, 2032, an asteroid will strike the Earth.
Knowing that nothing can be saved, I spend my final months building a device —
a strange, beautiful thing,
that will help me make a perfect wish upon the very force that will end it all,
and create one last moment of light in my brief life.
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- “Sky”(with everything in it) also means “God”.
→ Asteroid is an embodiment of the god, the bad fate given by the god.
Making wishes towards sky/asteroid is a grand event that needs to be treated carefully.
→ Talking to the bad fate. I take you seriously, I won’t let you destroy my spirit. I will gain motivation and strength from you to live my life. - What the protagonist is trying to do:
to give a meaning to the rest time of her life, to motivate herself to live (motto in lockdown: Keep living. Live them all out.), and to create a self-made highlight at the end before her death.
The wishing device is her approach to achieve it.
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Function of the Wishing Device
- Storywise, an epitome of the protagonist’s efforts and her resilience
- Sense the presence and state of the asteroid and herself in the universe (time, direction (asteroid can’t be seen), brightness)
- Achieve alignments of “the right timing, the right place, and the right person (天时地利人和)”
- Be connected/united with the sky (“天人合一”, harmony between human and sky)
- In the film, accompanied with sound, guide the audience through that uninterrupted, pure spiritual experience
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Tryout of the ending: the time to make wishes to the asteroid/the fate given by the god
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refer
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post production
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- Vast sky, big tree, how insignificant humans are before nature and fate
- Tiny wishes and efforts matter. Personally they are significant
Option: make the protagonist bigger?
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close-up demo
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- love the long take for the ending, creating a complete auditory and emotional experience
- the hill background is good!
- simpler scene (long shot with silhouette) preferred, tiny person under nature
Then
- probably make person slightly bigger
- shoot before complete darkness?
- make the device an obtrusive contour, visible in dark (luminous 3D material, or LED lights)
No close-ups of the device at the end, so need to explain its function beforehand.
Through film:
→ use three short scenes of me adjusting the device to show how it works —
one shot for time (a clock/time screen), one for direction (a visual compass), and one for the asteroid’s state (3D simulation).
Each produces a different sound.
Set design: calendar, pin board full of sketch and research?
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Device appearance
how about some amazing filaments:
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Moodboard
space fantasy, bizarre light
strange and beautiful (but how??)
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Keep the orbits/the brim
…how should the hearing part look like??
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1. Transparent hemispherical headphone
electronics can be put in the transparent hemispheres
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2. Semi-enclosed hearing device
- shiny aluminum is great, but I need lights
- glowing “hat” is very appealing!
Another great refer (structure wise):
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Question:
What to show in midterms?
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