A Concept for a Movie Idea
Posted: Tuesday 16 Mar 2010, under category Ideas
Elderon's play is not a movie idea but more of a concept, which I can guarantee is something that has never been done in the history of cinema. It isn't a story line but a way of how the movie should be done.
Also Elderon's play, is not the name of the play itself but refers to Elderon's playhouse, one of the most prestigious playhouses that offer the grandest of illusions. It is simply a movie about a play, but how it is done is what makes it unique. It begins in a world where magic and illusion exist, in a place where elves, humans and dwarves rule the land.
So first let me ask you something, if you where going to do a play in such a place, where magic and illusion exist, how would you go about doing it. You wouldn't have simple little painted cardboard sets, and fake scenery, no you would use illusion to set the scene. Real trees, and grass, clouds floating overhead, not only that but you could do so much more.
For example, to horsemen are on center stage running at full gallop through a forest, trees are streaming past at incredible speed, but the horses aren't moving, in fact the scenery is moving and there still center stage, using illusion to create movement. Also the back of the stage opens up to a complete world only limited by imagination.
Another example, towards the back of the stage, in fact it seems to be roughly a quarter mile back, for the audience can see what is going on all the way back as far as the eye can see, there is a village, clouds floating overhead , with blue skies, and you can see the village is alive , people mulling about, you can if you want have characters starting mid stage walk toward the village, and where they should slam into a stage wall there is none, for illusion opens up the stage so you are no longer confined to it, as they walk off you see them getting smaller going toward the village, or you could have the scenery scroll towards the audience, as it touches the edge of the stage it disappears. Then they see the village coming closer and closer, till it is finally in center stage, without having to create a new scene. By using illusion to set the stage you can do many things you couldn't in a real play, like zoom in, zoom out, pan left or tight, rotate left or right.
One last example, say the characters are strolling toward stage left, through a forest of trees, they stop and one points towards the village, the audience can't see the village yet for it is off stage left, but then it seems the whole stage starts to rotate, the characters aren't moving they're simply rotating with the scene, just as a cameraman would rotate around a character to show his surroundings. As it rotates various scenery fades away as new scenery comes into view, the stage rotates a quarter of a turn, now the characters are facing the back of the stage, and the audience can now see the village in the background.
This may seem a bit confusing, and if I could I could go into more detail, writing pages after pages trying to convey this idea, but here is the simplest way to describe it.
In a world where illusion and mages is prominent, to use that ability to create a play, which can't be done in reality, which is why it needs to be a movie. Would open up the stage and no longer be confined to just simple sets, you will have a whole world onstage to express your ideas. I guess the closest thing that would make this even simpler is take a empty picture frame outside, look through it, now all that happens inside that frame would be what is happening on stage, and now wove the frame try rotating around an object, or move it keeping a moving object into frame this is just a taste of what Elderons play would be about.
