16,Oct,06-#2Meeting

-16 Oct 2006-
1. How we' ll introduce the fact about his deaf and blind?

• At beginning not end
• Should we cast a real boy to act in the film? Maybe he' d have a friend or his mum who would introduce him to the audience – Problem: an extra character, disturbing the film.
• Texts coming out of hands – Brail or Moon alphabets written on his palms or in the air
• Could starting with the boy drawing his mum, saying she is my eyes and ears

2. How abstract is our film? Will there be a linear story?
Mood plot points: Comfort > unease> comfort / Mothers hug> Looses mother> finds mother

3. Introduce a city scene. Giving the contrast between city and countryside. Camera shakes indicate he' s on the bus / train

4. The mum writes letters on his hands to lead the journey. Animals could form from those words. Mum could be associated y different shapes, colours or objects.

5. Any idea about the sounds?

• Can have tones or ambient sounds
• Will be amazing to have original soundtracks!
• Should there be any speech in the film?

6. What is the film trying to say?

7. Space

• What he sees is in one massive space. There are no walls or limits.
• No perspective
• He can think of 3 dimensional.
• Will there be things that may have a larger presence than other things e.g. a dog barking and running around causing a commotion may be larger than a cow eating grass?

8. Vision – colour and shape

• Gather samples of different textures to feel them then draw what we feel
• Colours of objects/animals change as his emotions change
• What' s the colour of things that are familiar to him? Are there comforting / warning colours?
• What’s the colour of mum?

9. His Sensations

Touch – texture, shape, temperature
Smell – pleasant, links to other objects
Taste – texture, preference, melt / solid / liquid
Feel – travelling/speed, wind, pain / comfort, hunger / thirst (physical), space/isolation, temperature, emotions, dreams

10. Q’s we may ask children at a school for Blind/deaf

• What was your last dream? What' s the temperature, texture and shape u saw?
• Do you relate people/ animals to shapes?
• What colours do you see, if any…?
• what do u feel about ur best friend? ur mum?
• have u been in to a farm? if yes, what is the most impressive experience? if not, what do u think about a farm?
• Is there anything make u feel scared? how it looks?

Task before Friday:

Drawing (shape / colour) - portrays emotions (excitement-panic-calm)
- Feelings of mum