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This is really a heads up on what will be my next NEW project. The archive clearance is over.
This will likely be my most ambitious Fanmix to date, combining three movies to tell a structurally quite different story, much like my first edit X-Men Requiem War.
I'm not going to reveal the content yet, and I may not pull it off, but there is a 90% chance that I will.
Despite knowing these 3 movies very well, I am going to need re-watch them all and take extensive notes in order to plan this. At the moment the biggest challenge is to decide the narrative flow. Do i go Chronological, Parallel or flashback style? This choice will be fundamental to how the story unfolds, and what I can drop vs. what I can keep.
- Chronological has the advantage of a clear narrative but the down side is a longer movie which will suddenly appear to be about something unrelated to the first part.
- Parallel has the advantage of intertwining two threads which are brought together for a finale but again would lead to a long run time, even with aggressive pruning
- Flashback has the great advantage of permitting large excisions (think Godfather Part II) and keeping audiences highly engaged at the risk of confusion if screwed up .
I used flashback succesfully in Fallen Hero, my Clint Eastwood mashup. The key is does the third movie have enough dialogue or visual hooks to trigger sufficient flashbacks to tell the back story in enough detail? Well, so far on an initial scan, there is a choice piece of dialogue in movie 3 to trigger a great flashback tie-in. But I need more.
Film 1 has broadly what I call master scenes, about 32 of them. I need 16 of these in the cut. Film 2 has 38 Master scenes, of which I need around a dozen. So i need near on 25/30 jump points. They may not be there and that's a lot of jumping about which may not be sustainable from a viewing perepective. Film 3 will need a significant reduction, which is achievable, to create the room for the flashbacks. This will mean dropping half it's content. I'm targeting 2.5hrs, which means losing 3.5 hours potentially. I don't know at this point if that is deliverable. I certainly do not want a run time thatexceeding 3 hours if pos
For now, there is a lot to plan, quite a few packs of Post-it notes to juggle scenes with, and a lot of watching.... A LOT. The biggest issue is that I'm crazy about so many scenes I would love to include, but already know that I will need to drop if this story telling is to work....RATS!!!!
I have no idea how long this will take.
In my head, it all works a dream and I could go with all 3 structures.
Once I have a workprint, I will post some details. When that is being polished, I'll put a trailer together and all will be revealed EXCEPT the chosen structure.
Finally, two of the three have had fanedit touches, two extended versions and a tweaked narrative to one. One of the movies has never been touched. None have ever combined them.
I've got my work cut out!
This is really a heads up on what will be my next NEW project. The archive clearance is over.
This will likely be my most ambitious Fanmix to date, combining three movies to tell a structurally quite different story, much like my first edit X-Men Requiem War.
I'm not going to reveal the content yet, and I may not pull it off, but there is a 90% chance that I will.
Despite knowing these 3 movies very well, I am going to need re-watch them all and take extensive notes in order to plan this. At the moment the biggest challenge is to decide the narrative flow. Do i go Chronological, Parallel or flashback style? This choice will be fundamental to how the story unfolds, and what I can drop vs. what I can keep.
- Chronological has the advantage of a clear narrative but the down side is a longer movie which will suddenly appear to be about something unrelated to the first part.
- Parallel has the advantage of intertwining two threads which are brought together for a finale but again would lead to a long run time, even with aggressive pruning
- Flashback has the great advantage of permitting large excisions (think Godfather Part II) and keeping audiences highly engaged at the risk of confusion if screwed up .
I used flashback succesfully in Fallen Hero, my Clint Eastwood mashup. The key is does the third movie have enough dialogue or visual hooks to trigger sufficient flashbacks to tell the back story in enough detail? Well, so far on an initial scan, there is a choice piece of dialogue in movie 3 to trigger a great flashback tie-in. But I need more.
Film 1 has broadly what I call master scenes, about 32 of them. I need 16 of these in the cut. Film 2 has 38 Master scenes, of which I need around a dozen. So i need near on 25/30 jump points. They may not be there and that's a lot of jumping about which may not be sustainable from a viewing perepective. Film 3 will need a significant reduction, which is achievable, to create the room for the flashbacks. This will mean dropping half it's content. I'm targeting 2.5hrs, which means losing 3.5 hours potentially. I don't know at this point if that is deliverable. I certainly do not want a run time thatexceeding 3 hours if pos
For now, there is a lot to plan, quite a few packs of Post-it notes to juggle scenes with, and a lot of watching.... A LOT. The biggest issue is that I'm crazy about so many scenes I would love to include, but already know that I will need to drop if this story telling is to work....RATS!!!!
I have no idea how long this will take.
In my head, it all works a dream and I could go with all 3 structures.
Once I have a workprint, I will post some details. When that is being polished, I'll put a trailer together and all will be revealed EXCEPT the chosen structure.
Finally, two of the three have had fanedit touches, two extended versions and a tweaked narrative to one. One of the movies has never been touched. None have ever combined them.
I've got my work cut out!
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