My Compositing Idea is:
Going back to the German Expressionist idea but this time make it smaller scale and simpler overall - the story will be set within someone's head (but how do you make that interesting).
The reason for this is 1) because that's what Caligari did and what German Expressionism does well in the more general sense, and 2) because that provides even more opportunity for VFX creativity.
One of the ideas De la Rey gave me was just to simply double up the main character/actor, it's a compositing technique but can also fit in with the mind-palace setting and thematic direction of the story - setting it in the mind means that whatever is being presented is probably going to be a metaphor of some sort.
The story isn't too important but the idea of trying to make an entirely internal conflict (a big problem with manh boring films is that they focus too much on the internal conflicts and there aren't any external ones present or at least the ones that are don't happen to be very interesting) and try to make that entirely internal conflict interesting somehow.
But while an enticing challenge that needs inspiration or a proper idea to work and I don't think I really have the time for that right now.
So if I do a doppelgänger thing what are the potential themes/metaphors?
- The one that De la Rey suggested was a man chasing himself, or the version of himself that he wants to be, and then comes to accept the person that he already is (so it's like a chase)
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