Coherent plan – objectives (DOG)

2.0 Objectives

2.1 Objectives common to both projects…

2.2 Objectives of DOG

2.2.1 a daring and decisive edit
why – I don’t need to emulate the same movie that’s already been made over and over. I give myself permission to breath, to really shine. Let’s release our full power, let’s rock. Tip – use of placeholder descriptions in roughing out assemblies.

2.2.1.1 the essentials of the story

2.2.1.2 most vivid and startling performance moments

2.2.1.3 cutaways – jutapose / timeshift / place shift

2.2.1.4 act I mix w/ establish apocalypse (s)

2.2.1.5 act II mix w/ backstory (s)

2.2.1.5.1 gerry’s seti self upload (backstory)

2.2.1.5.1.1 joe – he got involved in seti@home as a kid, and then hacked boinc to distribute himself. His digital self is scattered over 10,000,000 solar wireless XOs, he basically is the internet now. (jerry sleeping, cut to boinc and seti@home page, Sou on an XO with gerry on screen, gerry brushing teeth)

2.2.1.5.1.1.1 digression he’s got evolved XO assembly pods wandering the swollen seas, extracting heavy metals and rare earths from the sea water and compiling rafts of floating networked XOs

2.2.1.5.1.2 code sample… http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/branches/boinc_core_release_5_2/boinc/client/app_graphics.C

2.2.1.5.1.3 XO http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/index.shtml. where are XO’s made? shots of factory?

2.2.1.5.2 other backstory – apocalypses, the office, god embargo, joe and christina, shortwave chatter, joe dies… some solid exposition, other just fleeting impressions

2.2.1.6 act III story twist (s)

2.2.1.6.1 multiple christinas

2.2.1.6.2  joe’s off the reservation

2.2.1.6.3 gerry’s amazing recovery

2.2.2 never the same movie twice, linear i ching
i like the idea of creating a visual oracle, almost like a tarot deck, each scene corresponding to a card in the deck. They all unfold in the same order, but if each scene were a chapter and then randomly played back, the movie would still work. That’s an interesting perspective for the edit, each scene has to be a hologram, containing the whole

2.2.2.1 multiple interpretations

2.2.2.2 subtle details

2.2.2.3 ambigous / rich meanings

2.2.2.4 conflicting information

2.2.3 workshop scenarios about the attack on earth, who and why? the key questions find more mind share

2.2.3.1 narration, “and then they pulled out all the stops, the colonial endgame. they tried every lousy trick in the book to trash the planet once and for all. it was like some kind of sick fireworks finale, all the grim and dire science fiction scenarios coming down, live and direct. we still don’t know what they were about exactly, but there are plenty of clues…”

2.2.3.1.1 interstellar invasion, asteroid strike, sea level rise, militarized plague, nuclear warfare, robot rebellion, gmo accident, monsters from the id, colonial /  plantation end game, DIY cryogenics, space arc migrations, human harvest / rapture, toxic overload, carbon saturation, and more…

2.2.3.2 a delicious ramble through my fav conspiracy theories, mental gymnastics to limber up conceptual capacity

2.2.3.2.1 earth is a theme park

2.2.3.2.2 an installation by a mediocre cosmic artist

2.2.3.2.3 pain and suffering factory to feed intensity vampires

2.2.3.2.4 character “they didn’t seem to want the obvious resources, they set up civilization to piss them all away, what were they really after? maybe we’ll never know.”

2.2.3.2.5 impoverish the planet so it can’t be integrated into the galactic network, a dead node. god is exiled

2.2.3.2.6 look to bio strategies, clash of civilizations, corporate greed, power struggles disguised as political / religious dogma

2.2.4 10 – 12 minutes or feature length

whoo