- Nov 11, 2018
The apartment layout with placed props, ready for visual blocking. The props were modeled by multiple team members. I resized the walls to correspond to the room ratios that worked best in the light studies. I integrated the windows into the walls and began to add baseboards. My team-mate, Austin, took over the baseboards and added them to this final model. I also organized the files to prepare for the 3D pre-viz to make sure everyone is on the page. I organized a system of referenced master files so the prop modelers can continue to polish the props while the layout stage already begins.
The toothbrush will be placed in the kitchen to signify that Saul never enters the bathroom unnecessarily.
The mirror has to be as simple and humble as possible. It needs to be light enough for little Saul to pull, and be an important object because of the way it's used, not because of its extravagance.
This table is placed in the entrance hall, and will be part of the final scene in which Saul decides to turn his life around.
- Nov 11, 2018
Update to the title sequence. This time, the sequence tells the gradual story of what once was and what the house has now become. It begins by establishing the gloomy mood of the living room, later to be juxtaposed to the same space brightly lit up by the dove's light. After the establishing shot, we slowly move to an array of photographs hanging on the walls, illustrating better times. The next image is that of a drawing hanging by a magnet on the fridge. This is Saul's drawing from an earlier memory sequence that has now been cut, in which he draws himself with his mother, and his mother adds a dove to the drawing. The shots progressively show mroe and more of the dirty house, with unwashed dishes, a toothbrush and toothpaste by the kitchen sink instead of in the bathroom, and a few other details that illustrate the desperate state of the house. It ends by establishing the rotary phone at the exit, and ultimately shows us the mirror, guiding us back to the living room, where Saul will then write the film title into the dust on the table.
- Nov 11, 2018
Th first poster initially illustrated the ending, in which Saul decides to take the first step and go outside.
The second poster focuses on a side character rather than dealing directly with Saul. It illustrates an important part of the story, namely the memory sequence and alarming nostalgia associated with it.
The last one alludes to the importance of the mirror and gives the feeling of abandonment of something that Saul was once fond of.
