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Friends In Your Head | Forums → Off Topic → Alright guys, I need a focus group
Granted, I don't know anything about what this is or where it's going, it read alright to me. Me being a grammar whore, I noticed a few little things (choose either "Within a split second..." or "In a blur of motion..." not both, confuses the image) but it sounds pretty cool.
Only omission I'd gripe about is that as I was reading it, it felt more like I was watching a videogame trailer than a show trailer though it works as both.
I have to admit my ending of the scene would have a shot come out from the ship killing the thief, as the real narrator walked out of the hatch her decoy having proved necessary ![]()
It doesn't seem back story heavy, as it's a teaser's job to present the viewer with details there's no answer for with the promise that such answers will be coming if you plop down your money. For example, "They say war changes a person". I'd assume that means the robot once was fully human, and that's the story I'd expect to see.
@ JackalBane: Will do, I wasn't really sure about that when I wrote it but I thought I'd leave it in and see if anyone said anything
And yeah, thats one of the things I've noticed do research for these types of things (trailers). Video games tend to be more cinematic, whereas movies just tend to be a mashup of all the best bits.
@Jeff: Hehe, I'm still trying to find my own voice when writing a screenplay and I tend to let myself go even wilder when writing something like this. But you got the basic gist of it.
Essentially, one side of a pointless war (the more tech savvy side) starts to take some of their best soldiers and make them even better with tech upgrades and things like that. So hence why even though the war has been over for so long she still looks so young and can't die from a single gunshot wound etc etc, and all the fun stuff like that. And now that the war is over she effectively has no purpose in the new worlds (yes plural), but she's not the kind of gal to go off and committ sepuku over a little thing like that so she tries to scrape out a new existence for herself.
I've got about a page of other backstory to this world if you want it, but it looks like my rewrite after Dorkmans post did some good if you arn't lost in it.
The opening shots were definitely the first shots I had envisioned, yes, and I really really love them, so basically yeah, waif not so much. Plus I'm really starting to love this whole Firefly meets Dollhouse finale thing I've got going on.
@Invid:...I can't tell if you're joking or not ![]()
As far as what the series would actually be about...the way I'm envisioning it right now would be taking place several years after the war has finished, people have started to rebuild, and it's about Qwin and another crew of black market runners (maybe, this is still kinda fuzzy) trying to survive in this new world after fighting for so long. And then, they'd probably meet at some point and have cake, and all sorts of happy fun times would ensue.
Thanks guys! Keep em comin if you got em.
I'm getting a very Firefly-esque vibe from this, is that intentional?
That is intensely intentional.
Hmm alright, and her engines will have a similar layout to Serenity, so I'll have to play with it and see what works. I'm going to try o get a rough sketch of the ship design I have now thrown up in a few days and get your guys' thoughts on it. I need to redesign some stuff, because it's still much to reminiscent of Serenity for my liking. (Damn you Joss and your logical ship layout!)
The way I'm envisioning it right now will be a combination of live action and CG. With the people being live action, with the main set (The roof) being a dressed up parkade or something similar with a matte painting background and set extensions. And then everything else will be CG.
I like it. I've never watched Firefly, so I can't exactly see any similarities, but I like it.
It did, however, feel like an intro to a short film, and not like a teaser or trailer.
Then again, when you look at the Force Unleashed 2/Old republic trailers, they do this kind of thing too. So yeah, like some here already said, it has that videogame feel to it as well.
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