a note to robbie about video

in response to your thoughts and questions about the film:
i think we will move at this faster pace, except for in the formation of that line, which i think should be slower. and in the line, the collapse action and the hold in that, that could be longer.

i had the opportunity to look for the first time at your set up of the video last night. i think it is great to work with the black screen over all. this is a great draft. the images are great and i think we are on our way, with likely MORE than we need. i have now looked again and watched with music. i wish i could watch with the dance, at the same time. but none the less...

Please let me imagine another draft of this with you. what informs these notes is the feeling that there are a bit too many trees. also, that i want to undo the power of the frame as a focusing tool. that there might be too much. OK, an imagined sequence in response to yours follows:

it begins with a frame that comes up center. it shrinks a bit, and moves down left corner.

a tree comes in from the right side of screen and travels into the frame. it turns brown, sheds leaves and disappears.

some other objects move down the black in the path of the up to down tree. i don't know if this should be the previous objects (spoon, glasses, necklace, ear piece) or if they should be more simple, like an apple, a pair of shoes... at this point, i think we have enough of our little beautiful tree. it should not pass up to down. perhaps the gold frame disappears? we don't want to give it too much power.

perhaps a shot of just tree branches, whole frame? have a look at this: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=2385&picture=tree-branches OR http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/free_stock_photos/showphoto.php/photo/6076

your dad in frame, and as soon as he arrives in the frame, move the frame swiftly, to another corner, so dad doesn't have a frame around him but remains in lower left corner.

birds in frame, growing out to full screen,

frame around planes. (i love that!)

kitchen image with frame around birds. (i LOVE this idea, but don't love the kitchen. should it be a window in something else? what do you think?) (skip the second kitchen image with the framed door. i think you accomplish best what you want to accomplish with the first image.)

Jumbo store (i love this, and with the tree coming in.)

road.

(I don't think we need the buy and save as it is so like the Jumbo store. what do you think? )

the lot.

i'd say skip the desert scene, the airport and the train station.

not sure how to end.