Please use this task for now to give your general thoughts, ideas and feedback on this project. A "story" task will be created shortly, but I think in the beginning, it's important everyone settles with a general idea of the film's supposed atmosphere and setting.
Have you already thought how to film the movie in 3D ? I 've read some stuiff about, it's not that easy as just putting two cameras up and filming.
Unless it's completely CGI.
The reason why I haven't seen vampire movies for a long time is that they are overloaded with teenage fantasies of gloomy romance. I prefere: Blood before Love! Less hearts, more guts!
I think we should try to make this dark and gritty as possible. There are too many flicks that have that comedy bit in the movie and that has spoiled many movies.
In a nutshell: Dark, gritty and not funny oneliners etc. :)
Why not remove the religious connotations from the stereotype of vampires? Specifically, nullifying the effects of crosses and holy water. By removing those weaknesses, the vampires would be that much more unstoppable, while also doing that much less to alienate any non-Christian members from the prospective audience.
So the horror may not be "PG", it can still be "PC". heh.
Would be good to start thinking about all that now. What else is needed besides t-shirts adn plastic vampire teeth? Vampyre Princess pin-up posters? Action figures? Garlic?
And what products / brands should be in the movie?
The idea of vamps being only bloodsuckers always bothered me, as it stems from the archaic belief that blood is liquid soul, or the water of life.
I think, that vamps would be less romantic, and far more monstrous, if instead of looking to suck a victim's neck, they instead aimed to bite a chunk from it. Vamps should be all-out cannibals.
What if they could stand the light of day for a short period of time? Vampire only needs to drink the blood of a virgin in the dawn.
Weird idea I know..haha
Werevolves are traditional enemies of the vampyres. Are you going to include them?
fatal non fatal?
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following up on caldwell's excellent point to make the vampires - as kalle suggested - 'noble' and immune to superstition.
in fact, i would think they would be experts in superstitions...
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but can they stand the light of day?
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True it doesn't have to be expensive to work... but it has to be expensive to look expensive ;D
Shooting with a rig like that makes the extensive post-production we need for Vampyre Princess impossible, even shooting with a Canon gives far too little image information for keying, and using mirrors amplifies this problem by about 5-10.
Anyway, my general opinion is that converted 3D - if done correctly - can work better than stuff that has really been shot in stereo - unless you have know-how and funds on a Avatar level.
Still, thanks for posting these interesting links =)
http://hackaday.com/2010/09/08/steroscopic-rig-requires-only-one-camera/
DIY 3D Monitor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NektsV1EOic
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-3D-stereoscopic-films/
It doesn't have to be expensive... ;-P
No, we will definitely not film stereoscopically as this is a giant mess which can only be tackled with a monstrous budget. I think it isn't even worth it, as even in Avatar, a good deal of the scenes have the "cardboard" effect. I don't think that that's a problem though, the 3D effect can be quite convincing anyways - like in the first sequence of "Alice", which was "only" a conversion. Of course you have to do the conversion right and not mess up like with "Clash Of The Titans", but we have gained enough experience with Snowblind to guarantee that won't happen :D
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