Classic Time Traveling Moment

We’ve all seen the Back to the Future trilogy and if you can recall, the second installment had a lot to do with the confusion of traveling time multiple times! I couldn’t stop thinking, “how’d they shoot that? They must have shot all this footage from the first movie — but that wasn’t the case. They had successfully recreated the same scenes we already enjoyed but from a different point of view. This is mind boggling to me and I can’t quite get my head around the story aspect of a character being in the same place in two different forms! This is what I’m doing with Time Traveling a Secret.

Obviously, the titles a dead give away of what the movie is about – or at least what the audience can expect from it. Time Travel in one way or another.

So how the heck am I going to do this? I’m sitting here Wed. 14th, 2007 with a shoot date next weekend, and I’m clueless to how to shoot the scenes where the character travels time and sees herself — and on top of that, the opening sequence is presented as a dream of the oldest form of the character, Louise.

You have to have that moment when a character sees themselves or interacts unknowingly, such as in Harry Potter, when telling a time travel story. But how? HOW? This is one of many of the new challenges I face with this new film – which is a great thing because in order to grow you have to be challenged.

in addition to the confusion, I’m unable to storyboard a whole lot because the location isn’t exactly at my disposal as it is private property – plus I haven’t been there in so long – i don’t even remember what it looked like — and won’t know if its even there until the day of the shoot!

Should I try and get that moment of the character seeing her younger self or interacting? Should I mess with alternate-dimensions and courses of time, parallel universes? We’ll see – so far there’s room in the script for just about anything.

~ by ricemmfilm on March 14, 2007.