At the risk of stating the obvious, seems to me that shared (& often secret) experiences are at the heart of relationships. (Hey, maybe some of us forget that sometimes?)
Tag Archive: filmmaking
After our protagonists’ glimpse across the universe, normality returns.
(But will things ever be the same?)
Because a ‘grand-ideas’ screenplay needs a grand ending!
Conceiving the inconceivable… (My favourite page)
I was tempted, after the top panel, to have our hero Scot say ‘So you’re the code-word?’, but of course that would have made it a different type of screenplay…
I’ve always liked the idea of something secret & magical happening, whilst time has stopped for everyone else. (I think audiences like it too – like being let in on a secret, when no one else is looking…)
I’ve played with that idea in my early 16mm film experiments – this I made in about 2002.
Gone…?
(Keeping audiences guessing is vital)
(even if audiences have a strong suspicion of what might come next…)
Action!
The end (of the comic) is nigh!
Everyone likes to share their experiences with someone. Everyone likes a witness…
The Oracle Machine - Graphic Novel & Movie Project 