In class Vaughn asked me if we had ever worked with the split-screen technique for one of our films and although we never produced a final product at one point during a brainstorming session me and Matthew came up with an idea for one.
I'll share here because I don't know if we'll ever actually make it and I think it is a good indication of how I see the technique as a whole - kind of like a joke.
The idea was very much a parody of the technique, in it we would set-up some kind of mystery with two people in the room. When one leaves the screen splits and we follow both characters on their journey to solve the mystery, as the plot unfolds more individuals are introduced and more and more perspectives are seen as the screen spits into many multiple pieces. The twist? We keep the sound of all clips at the same volume and not all the characters encountered go on to do something important. Someone might start cooking or even vacuuming and this sound will be heard at full volume. It becomes more and more incoherent until the audience is completely lost, the best part is that here is where we give the solution to the mystery.
It was a bit of a troll idea, but its one that really excited me and showing it off at flicks would have been hilarious. The problem with going ahead with it was two-fold:
1) The mystery has to be really good, and develop in an interesting direction. Guess what, this is hard to come up with and the inspiration never, and still hasn't, come.
2) It's a lot of effort. We were gonna do it like The Green Hornet sequence, but it's technically quite complicated and I don't how we'd weave the clips together so effortlessly. Each separate thing would have to be filmed, resulting in a lot of filming.
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