A brief look into my Senior Film

So here I am, at the crucial stage of actually putting my great ideas for this film into motion. I wanted to give you a brief over view of what I have as far as concept and art direction, and then I will update through out my whole production process.

Dear Rinni

 Directed By Susan DeVenero

Concept: Communication between two people is never impossible.

Format: 3d, 2d mixed media

Duration: 2 minutes

Idea: This film is about communication between two sisters who are far apart.

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Objective: To make the audience feel as though they are traveling with the plane to get to its destination.  The audience should connect with the idea that loved ones are not always a close distance away.  This idea of communication and travel reinforces the love that the two sisters share for one another and shows how important it is to stay connected.

Synopsis: An art deco styled girl misses her water color sister. She writes her a note and folds it into a plane. She throws the paper airplane and it takes us through the world they live in, getting into trouble along the way. It finally makes it to the water color girl, who is happy to hear from her sister.

Story:

A plethora of paintings on a hallway wall are shown.  The focus changes to an art deco style painting. A girl is shown fixing her hair at a makeup table. All of a sudden she turns her head to see if anyone is looking. She leans over and grabs a picture off of the mirror. She smiles at a picture of her and her water colored sister making funny faces.  She puts the picture down and finishes writing a letter. The letter then gets folded into a paper airplane, which she throws. The plane travels left, leaving a trail of lines in its path. It travels into a cubist style cityscape, weaving in and out of the buildings. It flies out and back into a painting of turning gears. The plane gets caught in the gears, travels through the painting and shoots out the left of the frame. All that is left is the trail the plane left behind. We follow the trail up and around and eventually catch up with the plane.  The plane is the focus of the shot again and now fills up most of the frame. It travels through paintings which are moving behind in the background. As it travels through each painting it changes style. The plane starts to go faster and faster until the background is just a blur. All of a sudden it hits a tree. The plane is stuck and has no hope of reaching its destination. Out of the darkness a bird flies in, landing on the branch where the plane is stuck. It pecks the plane, which falls out of the branch. It glides down through the forest and falls out of the frame. It enters a water color painting, falling to the ground. Two feet walk up to it and hands are seen picking up the plane. The water color sister is shown reading the note, smiling fondly at her sister’s words. She freezes into a painting and the camera zooms out to show that there are many different colored lines from different planes going into every painting.