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• Pre Production - The Good Guy THE LOOK

  2011-06-30 1:18AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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    I still have not met an Art Director or Set Designer to work with, so in the meantime I pull together my own sources. 
  
    PICTURE
  
    I'm not so keen when it comes to camera work and colors and lighting, but I like to watch a lot of movies and look at photographs to kind of narrow down a concept.  These were some of the inspirations I used in the brainstorming process.
  
  
  Dog Bite Dog (狗咬狗) - Directed by Pou Soi Cheang
  Loved tne cinematography and interesting set pieces showing the late night markets of Hong Kong without the neon lights of Mongkok or Nathan Road. 
  
  
  Another recent film Beast Stalker (證人) and Stool Pigeon (綫人) Directed by Dante Lam, the latter of which I still have not seen. Had an interesting look that I just liked, I wasn't sure if I wanted to replicate that, as it didn't seem to fit the same mood as TGG, but the characters were messed up and I liked that.
  
  
  There Will Be Blood Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson - haven't seen the movie- still!  But I have always loved the cinematography of PT Anderson's films done by Robert Elswit he rocks!
  Just trying to find more creative ideas.
  
  
  Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog was a film I always wanted to see but didn't until later.  This was a cool film but it didn't have the look I wanted either.
  
  WARDROBE
  
  Alfonso Cuarón 's Children of Men is probably one of my favourite films because it's a great example of a good film, good story, good production.  It feels on the outside like a very commercial product of within it as you watch it, how the story is told is such a stretch, it takes changes, risks, with story and content and cinematography, and it stretches boundaries of present, future, Europe, not Europe, it delves in history using the future, holy ^&*())!  That's a Sci-Fi home run! 
  
  Anyways, I liked how things looked messy and almost like you could touch it and it would break in your hands.  Like the characters they were extremely fragile...well most of all Clive Owen's character and that is what I wanted Charles to look and feel like.  A good guy who has a life that has been very messy.
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  A character sketch of Charles done by my friend Chang Vang
  
  
  Other character sketches done by Chang Vang
  
  
  
  

    In TGG the school girl gets attacked and kidnapped by a man, this was the early concept of Guy the Robber.
  
  

  
  

   
       Then Chang's sketch of Guy
  
  
  

  
  

  Then the actual testing of clothes given our limited time and budget.
  

  
  

  
  " Vola!  Now we're ready to go make a movie! "