HOW TO MANIPULATE SCRIPT IDEAS TO FILM SCI-FIC STYLE

Film schools definitely provide best of formal film educational knowledge base on syllabus and courses that are liable for replacement due to changes of times and advancement

Working and networking with creative like minds breaths experiences, insights and ideas to better meet every day standard. In a nutshell tricks in filmmaking might never be taught in film schools but working experiences developed knowledge, insight, Ideas and concepts beyond syllabus and courses certification

Many will agree with this, on a scale of 100 not up to 40% of filmmaking knowledge acquired through film schools is been put to work in real outside filmmaking aside the fundamentals guidelines to filmmaking approaches

Spider Man

In this article we will be looking at how to manipulate traditional ideas per the writer(s) imagination into blockbuster science fiction that makes unbelievable possible on screen. However this may not be a theory from any film school yet an insightful approach to be unique in creativity

 Filmmaking as earlier defined on our previous article as the process of telling stories through audio/visual devices. Read I WANT TO BE A FULL TIME FILMMAKER Filmmaking is  about making realities on screen, convincing viewers of certain truth beyond the natural world. Using motion pictures and graphics to create questionable ideas "CAN THIS BE REAL".

Sic fic films are films base on speculative and futuristic imagination with little or no existence. Is typically about going into the future of an idea than it natural State so it is to with Stories

Since filmmaking is about telling stories, understanding various components in a story will give a creative mind the ability to manipulate each beyond the natural point of view. Every story has the following

1. Place(setting, time, location)

2. Characters (Human, Animals)

3. Props(The things used withing)

We live in a dual world, the visible and the invisible, natural and supernatural. The natural things or visible things are common to a man, the supernatural and invisible will remain a dream.

Thanks to God for the creative ideas in men certain invisible and unimaginable Ideas about Places(Cities, mountains, landscape, deserts etc), humans(Natural, supernatural), Animals(Natural, supernatural, Properties (Visible and invisible) can be made possible on screen with or without natural existence.

Concept manipulation refers to an individual or team ability to abstract or substantiate out of natural Ideas to making extreme supernatural Ideas beyond the natural point of view.

Abstraction from natural ideas will be possibly done when a creative team or individual under this three Keys

1. Working with the Green Screen

2. Understanding visual components

3. What to manipulate

Beginning with the green screen technique in creating unbelievable ideas from the natural view, proper understanding of its usage is mandatory, review our previous article GREEN SCREEN, THE SECRET BEHIND BLOCKBUSTER IDEAS 

2. Visual components are the basis for implementation of visual tricks if properly understood with accuracy and usage per time. These most be acknowledge for concept manipulation

. Visual effects

. CGI/ANIM

. MOCAPS

You wonder why Special makeovers trick are not on my list? That's because they are naturally relating

When using visual effects proper understanding and category to use per time noting from( Muzzle flashes, smokes, fire, integration, lightening, storms, explosion etc..) Should be priorities. Visual effects present natural Ideas in a different view thereby bringing out an entire new conception

Explosion and Lightning

. CGI/ANIM Computer generated imagery and animation creates magical views from the natural. This is where invisible and unbelievable ideas become live on screen with little or no real life existence. CG elements beginning with the  creation of Places(Cities, mountains, landscape, deserts, Beach, Forest), Humans (with no existence), Properties (Cars,house, guns, etc),extension of natural view  via abstraction will transforms a story

Another trick for CGI/Anim is by using extension techniques, here part of a natural backgrounds are being captured with a section on Green Screen to be extended in Post Production making believable as though the CGI part is actually real with the natural. This is mostly in Hollywood blockbuster

Set Extension

A wonderful category of CGI/ANIM trick is making use of Cyberpunk Feature and holograms, Cyberpunk elements and holograms are fictional and breaths unbelievable stunt in the minds of viewers. Cyberpunk Cities, Environments, House, objects, Cars  etc transforms natural Ideas to Sci fic

Cyberpunk

. MOCAP TECHNIQUE; Motion capture as abbreviated MOCAP is a trick to generate Characters, Animals and other creatures that won't be naturally brought on set or without real life existence. Making use of Mocaps transforms natural Ideas to supernatural (Unexplainable) results which can't be denied. Amazing trick used in many blockbuster films like Jurassic Park

Mocaps techniques

Motion capture is about capturing the actions, movement, reactions of a physical costume Actor on Mocaps Suit to be later transferred into a CGI Character or elements in order to bring some impossible Characters, Animals or things live on screen with little or no natural existence

Proper understanding of visual components that buulds a story extra ordinary view on screen will give ability to note down what to manipulate and why per the Writer imagination on Script. This takes us down to the final;

What to manipulate; haven discussed above on the things that makes a story; place, time, people, other living things, props. manipulating or abstracting from natural ideas, the question of what to manipulate most be answered and also what to implement. Are you working at Vfx level? Are you going for CGI/ANIM, Are you intending to bring in Mocaps techniques and why?

Difficult Environment,Places, Cities to shoot in real natural can be CGI generated just have a mental picture of it then go for extension techniques or Cyberpunk features. Humans and Super humans including beasts, animals can be brought to live through Mocaps, rain,storms, explosion, lightening, disintegration etc..Vfx achieve

Also what needs to be implemented into the story in terms of CGI environment, Props, Characters etc.. if nothing is to be manipulateed, what can be added that can give more shape to the visual design. If something is not manipulated then something should be implemented otherwise shoot the Light, Camera, Action.. VIEW HERE