Indigo Lady - casting memo

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Indigo Lady quicktime storyboard - casting memo

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sylviatoyindustries Lewis	Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:40 AM
To: Sapna Gandhi, Diana Slampyak, tyler cohen
http://vimeo.com/32135353 hey. so i combined the montage studies that i've been making for the last month with interspersed talking head of a reading of the original stage version script. there will be talking head clips in the movie (monologues of the main characters - i.e., Sapna/Indigo, Diana/Violet/Indigo's mother, Russell - that are improvised by the actors based on the script). but also scenes of characters in action; much of this will be green-screened. there will be a lot of montage, effects (visual & sound), etc., that happens on the editing table. but there will also be full-frame clips, probably at the beginning of each plot point. just so you know, i play the ghost of the great great grandmother, who never speaks, just haunts the montage at 50% opacity at plot points in the central character's throughline, wearing a black veil and looking somber. FYI, i am upping the mother's role in the movie because the conflict between mother & daughter is one of the story's strengths. i am going to wait and see what Sapna and Diana come up with in their monologues before i cast Indigo's father. nidal, i'm including you on this even though you haven't committed yea or nay. i am reworking the script that i sent you because i think the relationship between the detective and Sapna's character (Indigo)  happens too late in the story. i probably will add a different unattainable male character who appears early (in Sapna/Indigo's) childhood; and right now i'm thinking that character is probably a priest when he reappears in the story - probably as the intercedent between the detective and Indigo's husband's mistress. meaning, it is the priest who convinces the detective to investigate Indigo's husband's disappearance. steve, can you please watch this and think about playing Russell, the husband? nima, can you please watch this and consider playing the priest? rebecca, i will ask you about this when you drop by - but in case i forget, as is my MO, will you watch this and consider playing the mistress? -- sylviatoyindustries

Film version of the 1990's solo play, 'Indigo Lady': a Quicktime storyboard

This first draft of the 'Indigo Lady' QuickTime storyboard is intended to help me, the designer Tyler Cohen and the actors go forward. 'Indigo Lady' will be a video performance art feature based on my 1990's one-woman play about a young woman who, "disappointed in love and marriage, murders her husband and turns him into ham." 'Indigo Lady' layers reality, memory, fantasy, desire and delusion. The surrealistic montages in the movie will show that layering. The talking head will be replaced as the characters created by the actors retell the story of 'Indigo Lady,' her family, life and loves in their own words, while the ghost of a famous female ancestor haunts them. Whether the ghost of Flavia Milazzo is real or only exists in Indigo Milazzo's head is part of the mystery. The play is quite visceral and so far, the QuickTime storyboard is even more so. The imagery is disturbing for some viewers, and is not intended for children.

Flavia's Ghost

green screen sketch for my video performance art feature, which layers reality, memory, fantasy, desire and delusion in the story lines of the two main characters, a mother and daughter at war with each other and their own disappointments while the ghost of a famous female ancestor haunts them - or, taunts them. whether the ghost is real ultimately will depend on the viewer.

Shine, A study for 'Indigo Lady'