Movie Production Diary #46
Added 2022-03-02 14:01:03 +0000 UTCAs we recently announced, we're making a movie and a true crime podcast, and we're making them in full view of you, our Patrons. Today, we worked on the movie and it’s audio this time! We return to the script this time. Some of the outstanding notes from the community and fandom.
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I guess im the one dissenting voice that is convinced anachronisms will only enrich the story if the filmmaking is confident enough
George
2022-03-09 16:33:18 +0000 UTCI have 2 high school age siblings and it seems that calling things gay and calling each other gay and so on is alive and well
George
2022-03-09 16:31:06 +0000 UTCTitle Pitch: Fuzzy Logic
Humberpie
2022-03-07 04:24:20 +0000 UTCMy title pitch: "Inner Beasts". Maybe that's more horror movie, but another ingredient for the brainstorm. As for the suit question, the budget version could be a onsie that goes from neck to ankles, with a proper head and furry slippers. Not as good as the full suit, but easier to get multiple identical copies for wardrobe. What I like the best, though, is the notion of Frankensteining an outfit together from discarded extra parts. Not just because it strips the deeper meaning concerns from the suit's identity and makes for a funny visual. If Trey has to crowdsource the the pieces from multiple individuals, there's a chance for a fun montage of Wolfmask and friends running around to help by finding pieces they don't need. You can still have the dichotomy of the older Korean woman revealing herself (hell, she could be Wolfmask), and a micro version of the community coming together to help.
BWJhimself
2022-03-05 09:25:26 +0000 UTCOn movie titles: I really like Papa Bear. I didn’t like Funny Animals last episode, but the more I hear it the more I like it. I’ll just list some I thought of on the drive home... (Town name)’s animals Animals of (town name) Bear with us (other bear puns would be great, y’all are better word smiths) Hear the herd Hey is for horses Some bizarre names and joke names... Wolf Egg Brandon’s Car Caltrops The Water Polo Movie Chlorine and Fur Hung like an Arturo A Kind Hyena On the suit destruction: What you guys were coming up with at the end was great, I’m just curious why you wouldn’t change the suit to be a water animal. It seems like such an easy fix to make it an otter and insinuate it’s water capable. Did I miss the hyena being thematically appropriate? The ideas at the end are much better, I would’ve just hit the easy way out.
Alaric Stuckrath
2022-03-05 04:27:36 +0000 UTCI should’ve listened to the last 20 minutes before I pitched! Y’all were already on that track.
Sam Shelton
2022-03-03 16:52:11 +0000 UTCI’m not sure if this will have the power or the impact that you’re wanting to have later in the film, but to me an easier and more straightforward path to Trey getting a fur suit would be through Sarah. If Trey and Ahmed are going to run into Sarah at the Con and she has a booth for the art/comic she’s doing, I don’t think it would be out of the realm of possibility that another vendor might have made a trade with her for her art, and that trade could be been for a lower quality fur suit. If the higher quality suit is something that y’all want as a striking imagine for the film, maybe it is just the head portion or some other part of the suit that she got in the trade. This would make things less straightforward, but in a “I know what I gotta do” sequence to get in the masquerade, he can borrow some portions of an old suit from Wolf Mask (perhaps some parts that have been worn out over the years and the reason why he’s getting a new one), get another part from Sarah, and maybe he buys a head piece on his own. I think where he gets these different pieces of the suit could be from people that identify with different sides of the fandom, yet he makes it his own.
Sam Shelton
2022-03-03 15:00:00 +0000 UTCI had a thought as to how you may be able to get round the getting someone’s fursuit wet without being outwardly disrespectful while also adding a layer to Trey trying to understand his dad. What if, earlier in the film, Trey was to find an older version of Hank’s suit that Hank doesn’t wear anymore because he’s got a new and improved suit that replaced the old one. You’d then have a scene of Trey trying it on and show in the scene him trying to grapple with what Hank sees in wearing this. Then when you get to them going to the fur con, Trey takes the old suit as he knows he it’ll probably be better to have it than to no, and that’s the suit he jumps into the pool to with, ruining the suit. You’d then have when Hank finds Trey, he also acknowledges that Trey is both wearing the suit but also somewhat upset that it’s a bit ruined. I think this could potentially bring a stronger reconciliation while bypassing the issue you’re having with the pool scene. I’m not sure if this is what you think will work or if you have come up with a subsequent better idea, but please feel free to use if you like.
Andrew Duck
2022-03-03 08:28:33 +0000 UTCI like “Bearable.” It’s a layered pun and an allusion to the questions the script raises about what is actually bearable and what is not. (I posit that it is not bearable for a bear not to be a bear.) I also like “beings” as a overarching reference to everyone in the script, rather than either “human” or “animal.” And now I’ve cannibalized my favorite title, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” so I might as well steal from Shakespeare too, something along the lines of “if you prick me, do I not bleed?”
Ellen Swaim
2022-03-03 04:16:36 +0000 UTC"Social Creatures" is perfect IMO
Old Kid
2022-03-03 03:40:43 +0000 UTClistening to this movie diary, when swaim said he couldn't picture any means of not getting the suit wet, i did think of a way that could be explored. if you have the person that hands over the suit tell trey how important suits are to furs, and somehow when he comes across the clorine he's mostly out of the suit but is carrying the head. then when he falls into the pool, he spikes the head, keeping it out of the pool and taking out the guy he's pursuing all in one. i feel like theres something there. thanks for reading this comment, keep up the good work.
Vilte Baliutaviciute
2022-03-03 01:26:57 +0000 UTCMy title pitch; SOCIAL CREATURES or SOCIAL ANIMALS
Isaac Still
2022-03-03 00:39:59 +0000 UTC"Herded Together"
Oliver Allen
2022-03-02 20:53:57 +0000 UTCFor a title, how about just "Fur"?
Originalname38
2022-03-02 18:50:12 +0000 UTCI'm really pulling for "Human Animals" as the title, since I suggested it last time. Glad to know that I am now in the synapses of Swaim's brain. These movie diaries are now my favorite part of Wednesdays.
Cody Franks
2022-03-02 17:23:06 +0000 UTCProbably silly to post but wanted yall to know I've been up all night and most nights but able to unwind while I listen to Small Beans. Thank you all for the hard work you do to create a mixture of light, insightful, funny, introspective and deep commentary and art. Can't wait to see the finished piece.
REVOLT PUNX
2022-03-02 14:12:09 +0000 UTC
