TYCHO SEE

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SUMMARY

When we first listened to See, we immediately began thinking about perspective

and what it means to have sight. We wanted to explore the difference between the
perceived and the actual that constantly exist within each of us. We wanted to push
the limits of our vision both naturally and through technological enhancements.
Shown through rich, low-contrast visuals that complement the dreamy and lucid
feel of See, we tell the story of a girl living two parallel existences, harmonizing
with the dreamy, expressive feel of the song.
Our female hero awakes, and we watch as she journeys through a series of
stunning environments. There are moments when we see through her stylized point
of view, and her world is markedly more mystical, filled with shamanic rituals,
hypnotic runes and an elusive, enigmatic stranger she summons from nature itself.
The locations seem simultaneously familiar yet mysterious. Switching between
these two perspectives inspires the audience to question what is real and what is
fantasy, and perhaps even the truth of their own senses.
Our heroines story folds back on itself -- she wakes up three times, each time in
the same physical posture but in a radically different location. As she ventures
forward again, her path changes. She finds herself in new places, discovers that
objects and symbols shes carried on her journey have taken different shapes, and
the cloaked stranger seems to know her differently. By the end, the stranger is no
longer an untouchable figure she is chasing but a spiritual conduit that embraces
her and pulls her back to reality, restoring her vision and beginning her story anew
once more.

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The mystic worldview of spiritual energy we see through our heroines point of view
is a keystone of the video, and we emphasize with intense stylization. Presented
through full-spectrum as well as infrared photography, we give our heroines
experience an unmistakably unique palette. Using filters we can achieve practical,
in-camera effects that drive home her familiar yet otherworldly perception.
In addition to effects and environment, we distinguish our heroines two
perspectives through props. She carries a sack full of trinkets which on the outside
seem mundane, but they erupt with extruding, geometric designs that come alive
once viewed from her point of view. Though her perspective is otherworldly, we
also want it to feel tangible, and theres no substitute for crafting physical objects.
Using Autofuss in-house design and shop capacities we can 3D print the extruding
geometry, laser engrave runic patterns, and install lights inside objects for real,
practical effects that will drive our story forward.
Footage of the band bridges our three acts. Kinect cameras scatter thousands of
dots across the room, including onto the band members. These dots are visible only
through the infrared lens, which we will capture along with some supplemental
graphic projections that bathe the image with fill light and color. This gives us a
visual reprieve from the otherwise intense environmental palettes, and bridges not
only the story but the two execution methods used elsewhere in the film.

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MOOD BOARDS

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STORY

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STORY

0:00
Establishing shots of the forest in sync with Claps
super wide-angle to start
then cut to textural details of trees / macro leaves / moisture / fog
slow movements
Each cut moving closer to a point in the forest
0:06
we see a grouping of simple geometric objects
they are spilled contents of a bag
we trace their path
they lead us to a girl
shes sleeping in a bed of grass and foliage
next to the bag
We survey her hands twitching in a closeup
Shes dreaming something profound
Her hair is at rest in the grass
0:15
The girl slowly wakes up in forest
her eyes brilliantly colored
abnormally so
she slowly rises up
with an intense stare into her surroundings
something isnt normal with her perception
but we dont know what it is
Shes in a long dress
and has a shiny piece of jewelry around her neck
she reaches down and puts the geometric objects back in the bag
one by one

0:30
a pair of spheres
a glossy diamond
a pair of flares embedded in custom casings
0:35
a strange tablet with inscriptions on it
she pauses on the inscriptions on the tablet
taking them in as she stares at them
0:38
she puts the tablet in the bag and slings it around her shoulder
finally she grabs a wooden block
with a spherical recess cut into it
she stands and holds it out
it guides her
as she hesitantly walks through the forest
the camera follows her
shes marveled by her surroundings
as we see her studying the forest
0:44
we match cut to her POV and see a unique stylization of her surroundings
her POV takes us into a different reality
cut back to the outside, she looks down at the object in her hand
in her POV the block has an old compass embedded in the spherical recess
0:55
she raises the compass up in the air
and heads into the forest
with more purposeful intention
as shes being guided by this device

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1:01
we follow her through the woods
camera hiding behind trees as she emerges
her eyes darting around the forest intently
flash to her POV
textures and colors warp
1:09
she sees a shape etched in a tree
in her POV
matching the shape on the cover of the tablet
she approaches the site
and places the tablet below it
1:15
right on cue the tablet opens up
as if its been unlocked
and we see from the outside a surface with faint triangular symmetry drawn on it
1:19
and in her POV the triangular shape is filled out
solid colors and telescopes into 3d
and she hallucinates in her POV
1:22
the Triangle changes into light, into texture
cut to a practical shoot of triangular art
she sees flashes of a cloaked man
buried within her vision
the shape has power over her
an attraction is established

1:30
she snaps out of it
and puts the tablet away
wide-angle of her into the forest again
holding up the compass
the sun starting to go down
the light is amber
she again surveys the forest, looking for something
1:36
and finds a giant triangle etched on a tree in her POV
a wide-angle shows its not there
she puts the bag down
and takes out the diamond
in her POV it glows
she twists it at the center, it opens
its a container for a strange paint
she takes her fingers and covers herself with it
macro shots of beautiful bokeh as shes covered in glitter
she takes out a long rod
1:47
it lights up, a casing for a giant smoke flare
she waves it around in a ceremonial dance
in the center of a grouping of trees
High speed galore
1:54
She starts to hallucinate again
we follow her dance intently, as she waves the flare around
cut to her POV

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Reality is skewed again and dynamic with her moves

Out of focus Bokeh fest
2:00
she slows her dancing for a second and looks into the distance
2:02
she sees a cloaked figure emerge
far in the distance
Hes made of out of focus light
Face backlit
Matching glitter styling, catching the light from the light inside the cloak
2:10
a wide shot shows shes alone
cut to the girl, looking out into the distance intently
2:18
transfixed, she resumes her ceremony
mixture of her dancing and her POV with the cloaked man approaching
teleporting closer using edits
only in her POV she finds him
we see him getting closer, and has a small satchel wrapped around his cloak
the contents of it are glowing
a wide shot shows that its only her
the man comes closer in fleeting moments of POV
2:28
the man is right next to her
she cant see his eyes
he reaches out to touch her face
she closes her eyes slowly in anticipation
cut to an exterior shot

shes convulsing and falls backwards

2:32
cut to over the top of her falling backwards
and she falls to the ground in slow-motion
a cut introduces Band footage
kinect + infrared performance
variety of shots exploring the band
projection on screen lights up
matching the triangle in the diary
2:40
get it Tycho!
beautiful shots of the band performing
they are bathed in light
slowly falling out of focus
2:48
The girl suddenly awakens in the morning
filmed in the same shot as we started the video with
shes alone
and in a different part of the forest
Her eyes a different surrealist style
Her POV vision is more saturated - altered from before
much more vivid, clearer
she surveys her surroundings
shes somewhere different in the forest
2:54
Her bag is gone
She examines her surroundings with agitation
and in her POV sees a path of light and footprints

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She sets out into the woods again

looking for her bag
POV galore saturated infrared shots
3:02
She finds the mans cloak on a branch
but its not really there
Just in her POV
she picks it up
in the corner of her eye she sees the man
darting from one tree to another
slow shutter strangeness as he moves
he is a light source in the forest
3:10
she drops the cloak and runs after him
the man disappears and she catches up
stylized chase scene as she follows this phantom
they begin to run faster
3:18
she stumbles on a tree
and falls to the ground in slow-motion
3:21
she finds the bag resting beneath the tree
the contents all spilled out
she surveys them in a medium shot
3:25
in her POV she looks at the tablet
it has been altered
a wide finds an inscription and wireframe geometric drawings

a triangle within a circle

she reads it
its a filled-in circle in her POV
and the Tycho braille dots
3:33
she stares into the circle
montage of trippy practical circular shapes
closeup of her eyes
falls out of focus
high-speed footage of spinning paint
fiberous, organic tissue congealing into one
3:40
the shapes pulls focus as we fade back into footage of the girl
shes doing another ceremonial dance
catpured at a low-angle
time has passed and it is sundown
shes spinning and in a trance
matching the movement of the spinning paint
3:49
its a gorgeous, hyper stylized silhouette
shes waving around two glowing spheres
in slow-motion creating light along her body
no cuts to POV, we let her be in her own world
and wonder what she sees
3:56
transitions to footage of the band playing again
guitarist playing the chords
as he is basked in infrared kinect dots

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projection on screen lights up, matching the circle in the diary

4:03
cut to a closeup of the girl dancing
she opens her eyes
cut to her POV
the cloaked man again reaching towards her
and light blooms the frame
4:06
we cut back to the girl
quickly in the same signature shot
same position on the ground that were familiar with
she opens her eyes
theyre a different color
4:09
and realizes shes on the beach
transported again
the sun is starting to set
her POV again a different style
she stares at the sun
POV bokeh fest
looking down the sand glows
4:13
she sees the bag, again its contents spilled out
we follow the contents up the coastline
in the distance she sees a light ring in the sand
but its not really there
only in her POV
she grabs one of the objects from the bag

4:19
runs towards the light
in beautiful slow-motion we follow
back to her POV
the man is there
without his cloak
in the center of the ring
reading the tablet
A glitter being glowing in the light
head down, reading intently
within the fluorescent ring in the sand
4:27
she lights the flare and starts to dance around the man
fearless
a last ceremonial charade
4:30
her pov reveals his face
as he looks up
eyes still masked
his skin a glitter bokeh
wide shot shows hes not there
neither is the circle
4:36
the man comes alive
dropping the tablet and approaches her
he exits the light ring
and embraces her in dance

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4:40
cut to a wide to see them both dancing together
the man has breached reality and is in existence with her
the feeling of a crescendo begins
4:44
back and forth they go
exchanging moves, the girl holding the flare
high-speed beauty of them both
4:51
flashbacks through the story
her walking through the forest with the compass
unlocking the tablet for the first time
POV forest
the flare ceremony
the cloaked person
running after him
the second circle ring in the tablet
the band playing with the ring in their projection
4:58
cut back to the two beginning to embrace
as she drops the flare
5:00
he finally touches her face
her body convulsing
high speed
she looks into his eyes
they are piercing blue in a wicked POV
as he comes closer to her face

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5:06
the man releases his hands
she falls backwards from the reaction
epic slow-motion of her falling backwards
match cut to her falling down in the forest
slow motion
into the sand
she lands in the grass
she falls into the same place she started the video from
5:10
she opens her eyes
match cut to a POV
her vision is restored
the forest looks familiar as she looks up
cut to closeup of her face
we see she has the same blue eyes as the man
piercing blue
she continues to look around with a hint of wonderment
and sets off
fade to black
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LOCATIONS

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LOC AT IONS

The story will be told using two primary locations, the beautiful redwood forests of
northern California, and a stunning beach setting south of the Santa Cruz coastline.
The redwood forest is our main location and provides atmospheric lighting,
textures, and an intensely saturated palette. The lush vegetation drives home the
infrared aesthetic, and amplifies the contrast between audience and POV stylings.
The final act takes place at the beachfront where we want to create a magical
spectacle of both characters united in ceremony during sundown. We love the look
of the sun hitting the wet sand, bouncing intense color around to light the frame
in surreal ways. An alternate location for the final act would be hot springs, where
steam plumes lend a much more magical setting.
Its our goal to augment the environment at all times, including use of LED panels
and projectors to illuminate the frame and give a surreal quality to the aesthetic we want all the footage to feel surreal and highly stylized. Our characters gesture
using smoke flares and illuminated geometry during their ceremonial dances,
which will be shot at high-speed to intensify the look and feel of the rituals.

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FILM TECHNIQUE

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FILM TECHNIQUE

We will shoot the audience narrative using a standard RED Epic camera package
and superspeed, ultra-prime lenses. We will focus on capturing majestic wideangle shots that magnifies the beauty of our locations, and will compliment those
with an assortment of textural macros and long-lenses to drive home an intimate
experience with our characters.
We will capture the POV narrative through the usage of infrared and full-spectrum
photography, where we will modify a RED One camera to enable this unique
aesthetic. We will also place stylized filters over the lens to give a dreamy, highlyaffected look that will emphasize we are looking through our heroines eyes. Lastly,
in grade we will experiment greatly with channel mixing and advanced processing
to render a variety of remarkable looks.

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CASTING

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C A ST ING

Our heroine must carry the story with not only her acting talent, but also her
physical movements in dance and ceremony. We are not seeking a magazine
model-type, but rather a girl with a nature-connected, nymph-like presence.
She should have ample experience with acting and dance, as well as a
spiritually-informed sensibility that she can bring to the shamanic elements
of the film.
For the male figure we want to cast a weathered, slightly haunting character
with an atypical face. He should look like a spirit-being from the woods with
unwashed hair and a long beard.. He will also have to be comfortable with
physical acting and activities like running, as he has a variety of physical
cues.

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THANK YOU.

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