Akagen monogatari or The Story of the Red Circle |
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Film starts with an opening theme and the lyrics on Japanese that I wrote. Movie tells a story about Japanese history, beginning with wars in 1600 AD.. Starting with Japanese civil wars and falling of Shogunat, after which comes the period of Japanese attacks on Russia and China, trough period of Great War and World War II. To this point movie is made like documentary, but after that it becomes a fiction. Japan prospers for the greater good of the mankind to the point when Earth is attacked by an alien force. Japan who was trained for war is the only one who can stand in the way of this much advanced war civilization. This is the time when they start their robots, to fight against alien threat.
To set the mood of the film I used traditional Japanese prints (in the first part of the movie) and music is planed to be traditional gagaku and bigaku music which is a particular note of that period. At the second segment of the film (Great War and WWII) I used combination of interpreted real life film and propaganda movies from that period, but I newer used any film except animation I made. At the end part of the movie I used modern Japanese anime and manga style from the comics and Japanese animated films, making it look modern and fast. Music in this ending part is Hip-Hop and Punk Rock, but there is music theme that is a basic for all music made especially for the film. Composer of the musical theme is Dusan Brkic who also is going to do sound effects. Hip-Hop-Trance part will be done by Jovan Obradovic and the Punk Rock intro will be played by a German label published band Red Union. To contribute the irony of the modern global culture and its spending society I plane to do whole marketing coverage of the movie, doing whole propaganda material by myself, including: web site, posters, T-shirts, coffee cups, stickers, stationary and etc.. It first started with a online pre movie selling of T-shirts, which are sold through Berlin based firm called Allmightys.com. One Euro from every T-shirt sold is going to the Children Village Organization which is the organization for children without parents. T-shirt also won a silver award for design also at Allmightys.com. During the making of the animation I tried to reach many of the Serbian government and non-government organizations for funding, but no organization ever respond. Whole project is paid only with the money of my parents and money I earned working for design firms.
Category: Storyboard