Passage to Zhong Fu
Published on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 by Verdi
Passage to Zhong Fu was originally created by me, Poid Mahovlich, duckyfresh Wantanabe and Dizzy Banjo for the 48 Hour Film Project in Second Life. If you’re unfamiliar with how the 48 Hr Film Project works, what happens is that all teams are given 3 random items that they must include; a prop, a character and a line of dialog. Addtionally, each team is randomly assigned a genre that they must work with. For this, all teams had to have a flamingo as a prop, the character Tony Martin - teacher and the line of dialog, ‚ÄúThat‚Äôs the way that it goes.‚Äù As for genre, we were tasked to make a ‚Äúroad movie.‚Äù We had blast putting this together and are pretty happy with the results. Of course, since we were one of the event’s sponsors we weren’t part of the competition.
After turning in our cut on Sunday night, we knew there were a few more things we wanted to do to the film. So what I’m posting here is a little different. This is probably the 50-something hour version. We added back in the scene with the cage which we originally had to cut to meet the time requirements. Doing that meant that Dizzy had to compose some new music as that scene really joins the two before it and the one after as a single musical section. Poid and I also shot a new ending scene. The original had Poid walking down a city street but that came from the initial idea which sort of evolved as we shot and edited the piece. I like this ending much better because it brings us back to where the film starts, having changed - which, I think, is the theme and was the inspiration for adding the I Ching quote at the beginning.
We’re going to show it inworld on one of the Princeton Sims. Please join us this Sunday, February 3, 2008 from noon - 2 p.m. SLT. Screening SLURL. The event will feature live music by Dizzy Banjo and will take place on an ephemeral landscape designed by Poid Mahovlich. Come and interact with the cast and crew, props and scenery used in the filming.
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January 30th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
I love the color and composition. I had to look up the title. (I didn’t know Zhong Fu was an acupuncture point.) This is fantastic Michael, and Dizzy’s music is quite alluring. I’ll try and make it in-world!
May 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
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