Creating a Framework for Speculation using Visualizations.

 YOU SEND ME THE MESSAGE

a film concept by Bast Santello

"You Send Me The Message": The name for an experimental film under development by writer/director Bart Santello and Psychotropic Films (TM).  This 'concept visualization' is how I build a film, by creating micro-films along the process as memory aides of how the film ultimately will be envisioned.  Rather than writing a story, I visualize the story.    A visual presentation along with inspired sound design, serve to inspire and at the same time guide the look and feel of the film.

Images in this piece were first curated and created to represent visual ideograms; meaning the image as a 'symbol', represents an inspired idea to be contemplated or developed further in support of the film. These images represent various concepts or elements; examples: a character to be developed; an artistic mood or texture to be replicated; or from a still an entire scene to be imagined based on the idea presented the visual.

These visual ideograms were first saved as digital JPEG files, then transferred to a cell phone, required to develop an instant print using Polaroid Lab. A couple of images in this work were time-lapses of the Polaroids as they were developing a frame every 2-seconds. From these analog-film prints are used for story-boarding, but as discussed previously, not as a step-by-step for the film, rather a framework for speculation of possibilities for the film.                                                                                                     

 Partial Synopsis:  A psychic mastermind conducts an experiment on an unwitting colleague in order to prove a theory that 'consciousness' is non-local and transcends time.  Events take place in the turbulent early 1970's and under a present-day surveillance state.