New Music Video in the works, wanna help?
Added 2021-09-09 16:21:32 +0000 UTCI've been having the most fun this week on a new music video. It's all practical effects, with miniatures by Olivier Xavier, and I'm shooting the settings all underwater with my aquatic drone! It's a total blast, and the results are going great!
Going "swimmingly?"
As much fun as I'm having, I'm sort of stuck looking for a narrative. I've got the effects working, but no real story to tell - at least not so far.
For Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the video was a combat-race. That was super fun.
Down To Old Maui was sort of a bounty hunter story...so thats been done too.
So, what do I have my submarines do??? Are they also racing? Is is a treasure hunt? Is it a subaquatic war?
The song is for the upcoming album, an upbeat anmd frantic sounding track called "Don't Let Another Captain Captain Your Boat". This is a metaphor, obviously. How do I explain it...through out my life, people will always give me advice on business moves, or song writing, etc. People who've never done either. And when I take their advice, it always gone really wrong. So the song is about, "Don't let some one else steer, this is YOUR life, only you know what works for your life."
So anyway, let me know if you've got any story ideas for this. If I use your idea I'll credit you in the video.
Comments
I have been into film / editing for 17 years, and finally started my own film production company. Stories/ creatively film wise is my specialty.
John Sprague
2021-12-07 06:49:00 +0000 UTCWhich I saw this sooner!
John Sprague
2021-12-07 06:47:51 +0000 UTCShark vs whales and dolphins. You pick the side the submarines are on.
Robert Slavey
2021-10-02 19:34:13 +0000 UTCPerhaps somebody escaping a controlling relationship, such as an overbearing parent (undoubtedly piloting one of the larger ships in chase)? Perhaps the captains of the other ships try to help or hinder - but things only go right and the protagonist escapes by turning away from all their "helpful' suggestions and trying their very own tactic.
Brian Dean
2021-09-09 20:49:02 +0000 UTCI make escape rooms and one of things we like to do when writing is make sure there is a moment the players can't see coming. I like the idea of going through great lengths to get something that looks like a treasure at first (big ornate box) but revealed to be seemingly of no importance to anyone except one individual. (EG: fighting through a lot of people for a teddy bear that belongs to a little girl etc) Not all treasures are valuable to everyone kinda vibe. Another idea is like that one episode of twilight zone where at the end, it's revealed everything is just toys being played with by someone else and it's all their imagination. (Like at the end, the sub gets lifted out of the water and you look very confused and concerned and then you see a massive eye out the front portal which then cuts to a kid holding the toy sub)
Bizzaro.
2021-09-09 20:10:55 +0000 UTCWait, so you want us to help you steer a song about not letting people help you steer? I kid, I kid! It's all in good fun. I think you have no choice but to have the ship become increasingly more erratic in course as multiple captains try to take the wheel, and ultimately crash and/or founder on the bottom! Does the song end in a crescendo? Because that's your moment to scuttle! Why are there so many words for a sinking ship? Capsize... wreck...
William Moss
2021-09-09 20:09:25 +0000 UTCI’m definitely leaning towards a more treasure hunting style story, but it can be combined with a subaquatic war. You’re diving deep in pursuit of treasure, but you have to combat other submarines in order to reach your loot. The other subs are guarding the treasure, or competing with you to reach it first. Either option would make for some excellent submarine battle sequences. But ultimately Robert, do what you think is best. We will be happy with whatever you present us with.
Bill McNally
2021-09-09 17:55:10 +0000 UTCRescue mission at great peril, with "admiralty" orders requiring abandoning survivors and return to fleet which others choose to follow but you rogue it and get them out and maybe make it back, but maybe not - we won't know until the final scene. E.g. underwater colony vessel of families trapped between rocks with overhanging ledge crumbling above - rush in, push them out, ledge crumbles before you're out from under - do you emerge from the dust? I find the suspense with submarine action is the slow pace and inevitability - you set them in motion and it's too late for last minute responses - it's all up to fate. Also, loving the irony of escaping advice by asking for it - I guess it's the asking that makes the difference :)
Flyball1788
2021-09-09 17:51:01 +0000 UTCYou are trying to escape the idiots that want to tell you how to do everything maybe while trying to find the treasure
Arianne roberts
2021-09-09 17:24:24 +0000 UTCWhat if our submarine crew is trying to stop some underwater threat like a natural disaster that will destroy a village on shore, but the "other captains" are trying to prevent the real captain from achieving his objective. Maybe they're afraid of getting into harm's way if he succeeds or maybe they have their own reason for wanting to see the natural disaster occur.
David Lee Summers
2021-09-09 17:05:51 +0000 UTCSearching for a sunken (air?)ship, the "other captain" keeps trying to steer the boat up to the light where is safe but they can't succeed at their objective (treasure? Resolving a mystery?)
Gargoyle
2021-09-09 16:55:20 +0000 UTCIf you keep the hunted or chase theme. You could be trying to get to a treasure, but have obstacles like krakken attacking, sharks in the way. Especially if one of the teams was letting someone else be the captain and it got them lost down into an abyss or something, yet the person being their own captain found the treasure, Atlantis or something else rewarding. Or maybe I just really like aquariums and underwater imagery.
Candie Kohler
2021-09-09 16:42:14 +0000 UTC
