Out of the Darkness, A Festival Process

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AN ANNOTATED PROCESS JOURNAL

Name: Project: Class: Instructor:

Harini Venkataraman A Guillermo del Toro Film Festival GR 612 : Integrated Systems (Fall 2016) Hunter L. Wimmer


If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart. — D O N R O F F, A U T H O R

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THE DIRECTOR AND THE FILMS

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FILMOGRAPHY, BIBLIOGRAPHY & MORE Hitchcock and del Toro aren’t similar artists at all, really, except in their common dedication to purely visual, and visceral, storytelling.

F E AT URE F IL MS DIREC T ED (AL SO CREDITED AS PRODUCER)

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F E AT URE F IL MS PRODUCED ( NO D I R E C T I O N I N V O LV E D )

1993

Cronos

1998

Un Embrujo

1997

Mimic

2004

Cronicas

2001

The Devil’s Backbone

2007

The Orphanage (El Orfanato)

2002

Blade II

2008

Insignificant Things

2004

Hellboy

2008

While She Was Out

2006

Pan’s Labyrinth

2010

Biutiful

2008

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

2010

Julia’s Eyes

2013

Pacific Rim

2010

Don’t be Afraid of the Dark

2015

Crimson Peak

2011

Puss in Boots

2017

The Shape of Water

2012

Rise of the Guardians

2013

Mama

2014

The Book of Life

2015

The Thin Yellow Line

2016

Kung Fu Panda 3

2017

Rings

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The director Guillermo del Toro won’t have a feature film out in 2016, but his brand—and his spirit— seem to be everywhere. And indeed, his spirit isn’t only contained in his directorial ventures, but also in his collaborations as a producer, artist and writer.

BIBLIOGR APHY

VIDEO GAMES PRODUCED

2009

The Strain

P.T.

2010

The Fall

Silent Hills

2011

The Night Eternal

Death Stranding

2015 Trollhunters

—Guillermo del Toro

“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters; I identify with monsters.”

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STARTS OFF WITH A SLIGHTLESS LESS HAPPY SITUATION THAT SEEMS TO BETTER, BUT THEN SUDDENLY ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE AND YOU MUST FIGHT A BATTLE TO RESTORE GOODNESS IN YOUR REALM

POSITIONING

AUDIENCE

LOCATION

The festival is going to be about

The movies of del Toro are for

Victoria Theatre,

battling inner demons and trying to

those struggling with inner

Mission District, San Francisco

figure out what is really good or evil

demons and for those who find it a

(bilingual Spanish/English in

by exposing to them the grandest

struggle to look at reality without

the traditionally more Spanish

fairytale of them all: the true nature

fantasizing an alternative. Ideally,

part of the city)

of humanity.

these are individuals who think they have made bad choices they

The audience will be confronted by questions about how life spans out that will distract them from less than perfect personal stories and help them gain a better understanding of

cannot return from, are dissatisfied with their current choices and have a hard time accepting people around them at face value or any other superficial traits.

universal good and evil.

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G U I L L E R M O D E L T O R O F I L M F E S T I VA L

DATES October 25-31, 2017 (Tied to Halloween ‘17)


DIRECTOR CONNECTIONS

Visual + Conceptual Conceptual + Perspectives Executional + Emotional Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands

Tim Burton Tall tales in reality

Fanny & Alexander

Ingmar Bergman Profound, child’s eyes, fabulist perspectives

Heavenly Creatures, The Hobbit

Peter Jackson Storytelling + ethereal characteristics

“Monsters are soulful”

Guillermo

Ran

internal ambivalence b/w hero & monster

del Toro High-concept horror + Lovecraftian Cosmicism

Shadow of a Doubt

Alfred

Spirited Away

Hayao

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Miyazaki

Hitchcock American Gothic

Fairytales + Dark, adult

Haunting + monstrous

themes + illustrations

nature of the Human Barry Lyndon, The Shining

The Spirit of the Beehive

Victor Erice

David Lynch Inescapable Horror

Lonely Monsters bond with children The Changeling

Peter Medal Dark Romance

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FILM MASTERMOODBOARD

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Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.� — J O N AT H A N R E N S H AW, D AW N O F W O N D E R

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ROADMAPPING

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GUIDING NARR ATIVE

I am a lonely, recently orphaned, curious child who loves stories, and was forced to move to an old, dilapitating place that looks like a broken, ruined castle and there’s a monster in every dark corner that I try to explore and hide from my new, creepy guardians, and I try to sketch my experiences into my journal.

THREAD F

A

Guillermo del Toro’s tales deal with innocent or naïve B

characters who are haunted by (inner) monsters and C

D

exorcise past evils to restore goodness in the world— and mostly succeed after several hurdles.

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PHOTOGRA PHY

ST Y LE 01 Dark, Victorian interiors: wide angle shots of claustrophobic and darkened gothic architectural interiors; can be dilapitated and in layers of dust (think: haunted house)

ST Y LE 02 Shallow depth of focus images of creepy objects that are either horrifying, monstrous or plain scary by contrast, or has a tint of death (fades into black background)(think: object of fear)

ST Y LE 03 Photography of gothic architecture (like a medieval church) and/or leafless trees, unkempt Victorian gates, entranceways, tunnells and other outdoor places that can seem haunted (think: scary at night)

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GRA PHIC

ST Y LE 01 Gothic art, sketches of monsters, demons and other evil paraphernalia (think: nightmares and ink)

ST Y LE 02 Etchings, graphical line drawings of pentagrams, and other supernatural shapes and figures (think: exorcism meets Da Vinci)

ST Y LE 03 Textures that are grimy, speak horror and decay (think: touch of horror)

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TYPOGRA PHY

ST Y LE 01 Display and custom fonts (think: modern, evocative, expressive)

ST Y LE 02 Gothic and medieval typefaces and calligraphy (think: etched into the past)

ST Y LE 03 Dramatic serifs that are modified and manipulated to look scary (think: periodic horror stories)

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FORM AT & M ATERIA LS

ST Y LE 01 Wood: old, new, and engraved (think: vintage woodshop)

ST Y LE 02 Leather and velvet: classic, deadly and the stuff of monster hunters (think: witch-doctor in Lousiana in the 1940s)

ST Y LE 03 Antiques: medieval and engravel wood, metal and stonework (think: gothic museum)

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LANGUAGE

ST Y LE 01 Dialogues and the deepest things we feel when confronted by a dead end (literally) (think: philosopher by tragic circumstances)

ST Y LE 02 On the vein of storytelling, using observational language, usually in third person (think: nonce upon a time, a hero)

ST Y LE 03 Dark, deep and decandent, whimsical and dramatic language that borders between fantasy and reality and focuses on the darker experiences (think: nightmares and ink)

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Don’t let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer. And sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain. — MICH A EL BASSEY JOHNSON, AUTHOR

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VISUAL SYNTHESES AND INTEGRATIONS

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MATERIALS CHECKLIST

Festival Poster

COMPULSORY

Festival Catalog

Festival Filmography DVDs

Advertisements

Website

Business System

Container

4 OF A LIST

Tickets

Schedule

Soundtrack

Flying Logo

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DEVELOPED

PROJECT CHECKLIST

Visual System(s)

Cohesive Photography

Conceptual Illustration

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MASTER MOODBOARD

Level 1

Level 2

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The photography is based on the visual translation of the guiding narrative, which as we had gone through, puts us in the space of a ten-year old child who is curious and influenced by the dramatism of stories. The photos gives us perspective of what the kid sees in the old, creaking house with dark, dangerous corners, especailly from his hiding place while exploring the unknown.

Level 3

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LOGO & IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT

TITLE EXPLOR ATIONS

Monsters Among Us Hidden Monstrosity Out of the Darkness

SUBTITLE EXPLOR ATIONS Exploring the deplorable nature of monsters in our midst and triumphing over them with goodness in the films of GDT The manic sway of human nature between

Horrendous Secrets

goodness and evil in the tales of GDT

Heinous Darknesses

The ways that innate goodness of humanity triumphs against the evil of inner monsters

Morbid Essences MacabrĂŠ Esencia

The unsettling brutality of monsters

Beneath the Surface, it’s boiling with Monsters

among us and the sheer innocence that

The Dark Side of the Day

The exorcism of the monstrous evils in our

The Manifestation of Chaos

films of GDT

The Exquisite Grotesque

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in the tales by GDT

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vanquishes them in the films of GDT

society through pellucid humanity in the


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Over the course of concept development, the title changed from a potential “Monsters Among Us” to “Out of the Darkness”, as the thread of the festival filmography shaped itself into depicting a younger, more innocent protagonist being confronted by dark inner demons instead of a ritualistic good versus evil storyline. “Morbid Essences”, however, was more of a tentative choice based purely on the typographic symmetry of the 2 words.

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FINAL HAND-DRAWN LOGO AND VECTOR-IZED SCREEN VERSION

LEATHER STAMP OF THE LOGO FOR MERCHANDIZE CUSTOMIZATION

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POSTER DEVELOPMENT

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What was especially hard about the festival poster was that it was the biggest identifier of the festival’s visual system and its concept. The guiding narrative, which gave us the perspective of a curious child, put me in a dilemma about exactly what a child sees when trying to hide from a potentially dangerous shadow-dwelling creature. Eventually, I ended up with an image of an old and rusted keyhole on a heavy wooden door that looked like whatever was inside had not seen the light of the day in many a year. By distorting the angle, the system was balanced into the unsettling fear of the “child�.

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CATALOGUS CREATUR A: ALL ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

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ILLUSTR ATION STYLE: INSPIRED BY SEVER AL ARTISTS

The Devil’s Backbone Fort Del Pilar by Nick Ian

Hellboy Untitled by Andy Braz

Pan’s Labyrinth Tree Drawing by Dr. Odd

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army Troll Market Monster by Mike Mignola

Pacific Rim The Alien Life by Wayne Barlowe

Crimson Peak Death’s Head by Black Moth Tattoo registry

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RED, BLACK, WOOD, LEATHER, METAL & THE FEEL OF OLD THINGS

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All the deliverables for this class were made of stained dark wood, black and red leather, antique brass and art papers, including sketching, kraft and watercolor textured papers. The embellishments that tied them all together were the linear drawings and the tiny brass gears from the inside of old watches and other rusted equipment. The container was a vintage wooden traveling case with stained red (for the festival) leather straps.

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