Born on the 4th of July

[garrideb.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, Cap!

Starting today, I propose a week of celebration. I know a lot of you are burnt out on Big Bang projects, so the birthday activities I have planned shouldn't be too time-consuming. I also hope there's something for everyone: a fic challenge, an art game, and discussion.


Bithday Flash Fic Challenge: What would be a great gift for Steve? Write a flash fic (Generally written in one sitting, generally 1000 words or less) based on that question. To get you started, here are the prompts we collected last week. Feel free to use them or make up your own.

• A collection of WWII music


• Modern technology formatted specifically for him


• The obligatory Starbucks giftcard


• A 'Day in the Thirties'


• Unusual Cap merchandise, such as a boardgame


• Twister


• Big band music and dancing


• Birthday hugs or spankings


• A day at a sporting event or concert

Fanart Game: Exquisite Corpse is a game where several artists contribute blindly to one picture. The results can be hilarious, eerie, stunning - but are always a surprise. The game has been around in different forms since the Twenties, so it's something young Steve could possibly have played.

If you want to play, comment saying so to this post. I will assign you a part of Cap's body part to draw - head, torso, arm, or leg. Costumed, civilian clothes, swim trunks... it's all good. Use any medium on white paper, and e-mail it to autumnburn(at)gmail(dot)com by next Thursday. I will use photoshop to assemble the portrait. If there's enough interest, we can also do a Tony.

Discussion: What would be your ideal opening and/or closing scene for the Captain America movie? Answer in this post!

Comments

[morgulq.livejournal.com]

Opening scene...I dunno. I'd have to see what tone they'd take to the movie itself. In terms of style, I think a noir lighting arrangement would be both period appropriate and ironic, considering that the main requirement for a noir is a highly pessimistic tone and protagonist.

Musical score...definite jazzy tone. Dear Hans Zimmer, please to be letting us borrow one of your little proteges! Or we could be kidnapping Michael Giacchino...yeah...Giacchino would be good.

One little thing that I would love to see in there would be Artist!Steve being commissioned by a studio cinema to draw posters for a particular branch, those being the days when each cinema made its own rather than being sent them. But that would be a touch for my film-geeky self.

Closing shot...I'd take the cheesy-but-effective-route: Do the whole plane thing, but from Steve falling off onwards have it strictly over-the-shoulder OR POV. I'd want the whole film bar that last fight shot flat and then canted, not the Hong Kong 45 degree extreme but maybe 10 shading to 25/30. As well as that, I'd do the last bit, from when they start that mission, with a slow desaturization so that the explosion would be more effective and after a black out/slug and shimmer into focus and POV shot of all the Avengers looking down the colour would be a dramatic change. Which is an easy way to set a scene. And kind of cheating, really. But when it's done well...it is done WELL.

[morgulq.livejournal.com]

Bugger...now I want this film. *shakes fist*

[cosmicbiscuit.livejournal.com]

Cheers to Giacchino. The man has been consistently awesome lately.

[morgulq.livejournal.com]

The man is just consistently awesome. I used to play the Lost World game continuiously just for the music.

And Star Trek was beyond belief. I ended up going to it just for the music and the sound design after cleaning it opening night.

[garrideb.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I like the idea of ending with a shot of the Avengers looking down - especially with the color change, it sounds very effective. Before this I always assumed I'd want it to finish with Steve falling into the ice or maybe a scene of other characters reacting to Steve's death/carrying on in his name, but now I want your idea.

[valtyr]

As they're shooting the Avengers movie almost concurrently, it would be feasible.

[morgulq.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the words "closing scene". And then couldn't stop myself. And then realised that the whole thing sounded like a reference to Pan's Labyinth.

I was originally gonna write it out storyboard style but I was too lazy. Also, my teacher tells me off when I write them, apparently my writing style is too artistic and engaging.

...I...don't really get it either.

[melisus.livejournal.com]

Michael Giacchino should DEFINITELY write the score. Hell, they could just take his soundtracks from the Medal of Honor games and you already have your work done!

[morgulq.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's the Incredibles score that makes me want him to compose for CA. And Land of the Lost. It's just the right amount of tongue-in-cheek.

[melisus.livejournal.com]

Well have you heard the soundtrack to Medal of Honor Frontline? I think it suits a Cap film perfectly.