Posted by DogMattic at ool-435214cb.dyn.optonline.net on May 16, 2003 at 14:04:21:
Please give me your feedback, suggestions of good genre moments to use, and ways to add authenticity.
1920's silent film style complete with grayscale effect(cloth over lens, brightness tweak in post), film grain, title/speech cards, and saloon piano music(if I can get it). In beginning main character puts application in mailbox, montage of mailman not bringing it, one day it is delivered by a B-movie mailman with a handlebar mustache who happily gives him a,
rejection letter, and drives away splashing mud on him. He is forced to live on the streets, at one point playing the kazoo/singing the blues, one point kicking a can, a hobo goes "GETCHA PAWS OFF MAH WOMAN" and he looks inside the can and get the classic eyeliner around the rim effect(with the ba-da-da-dum-da-dum-dum DUM), then next dream sequence is happy(hot chick?) mailman coming, he gets the mailtruck pulls away as he smiles and thinks and there is a scene missing and he is a millionare. At some point in the last sequence we throw in a "Meanwhile, back at the ranch..." or something and have the evil mailman get mud splashed over him and get pissed. At that point we go to credits, maybe using something modern like C.R.E.A.M. Over the top shakey cameras, shoddy editting, and saloon music of course used. Fin
So, any advice on the plot, things to add, take away, revise, whatever? Any ideas how to not cross the line between actual shitty and cheesy movie and authentic looking parodyish thing?
Thanks.