Friday, July 20, 2007

Destination Infinity final


Here's how the lobby card clue turned out. My note to Dan about the sequence:

As you can see, I went slightly goofy with it, so the currently melodramatic sting in the temp track is way overboard. I guess the trick will be to create something that embraces the dramatic, the nostalgic and the silly all at once. Or maybe it quotes some of the classic SCI-FI electronic scores but with a detached sense of irony. I guess the trick is to be good silly and not stupid silly.

The way I expect this to work....

Ben is moving boxes in the green room. THen looks at the item he's printed. Something arrests his eye. He goes back to printing. As he prints, we see the following text flash, as if he's thinking about it: NON STOP ACTION / A SECRET REVEALED / DO YOU DARE MAKE THE JOURNEY? We go back to see the the lobby card. Then we see a closeup of the joshua tree photo at the right middle. Dissolve to a real joshua tree in the desert. Dissolve to the wide horizon shot of the truck coming in from the horizon. Ben gets out of the truck. He looks at a tiny stack of papers. The first one is a clipping from "A SECRET REVEALED" from the sci fi lobby card. Only this one has writing on it--his guess as to the mountain range in the background. YUCCA BREVIFOLIA (scientific name of joshua tree). Some possible coordinates. Then he flips to the next clipping in his stack. It says NON STOP ACTION. He flips a map transparency down over the astronaut image. The stars align with several features on the map. He's circled where the rocket ship star goes. That's his destination. Then Ben goes off into the desert.

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