Margot
Margot is a story of love, loss and of youth and memory intertwining. 'I keep seeing multiple versions of our lives and what they could be. It’s almost like I’m in a living daydream only it’s more vivid than that, like it’s happening in front me, lucid, Alive. Like a dream that feels very real. Only it’s different versions each time. And ... I want to take responsibility for what I saw.'
Project
Margot
Introduction
Margot is a piece stylistically which is in and out of time. We see a change and shift in colour, from sepia hues to lucid technicolour brightness depending on the sharpness of the memory we are part of. We are experiencing the reality of Margot's experience, her mind, her body all dispersed throughout different timelines of existence. Sometimes we are young with her, sometimes lost in a memory. Sometimes in a potential future timeline, sometimes a different potential within the reality of a memory or place. We are with her as she struggles, perseveres or is at peace with her surroundings.
Margot's World
Love and loss are strong themes and an underlying undercurrent throughout. Stylistically we roam from the 1940s to present day through costume hints, grading and hairstyles. The actress playing 'Margot' will be aged up with prosthetics to give a sense of the familiar and the uncanny. The VFX will be used to convey the alternate sense of reality with different viewpoints experienced in mirrors and out of the periphery of Margot's eye. For example, the shock of white hair being seen. The incremental use of a fish lens will build when she’s in memory mode.
Hints at 1940s furniture will slowly weather to the feel of an older person’s home in the same location with older style trinkets appearing. But in the main, the props in place will stay untouched, only physically and visually gathering time. Props will gather dust while facial lines will expand, retract and grow and in reversal. Alongside the more ‘physical’ visual cues, there will be subtle changes in lighting to cast the light and shade of her experience, the changing seasons and time of day in her mind to mark the undercurrent of a changing timeline. We are on a journey between parallel lives, simultaneously, piecing the puzzle together.
Margot Film Fund
Our crowdfunding campaign is vital to support us in covering all production costs including cast, set design, post-production and marketing.
The cast and crew for 'Margot' will be kept to a minimum to keep down costs. We have an excellent small team of professionals who have credits ranging from 'House of Dragon' to 'The Crown' and everything in between. We have already secured a location and so our budget will be split as follows:
Budget: £7,000 Cast & Crew Salaries: 50% Travel & Expenses: 10% Insurance: 2% Equipment: 12% Post Production (incl. VFX & Sound Design:): 16% Marketing: 8% Donations: 2%
Film Donations
Any contribution towards making 'Margot' a reality is greatly appreciated. As the film deals with themes of memory loss and violence, we will be donating a portion of the profits to Dementia UK and Women's Aid.
https://www.dementiauk.org/get-involved/donate/
https://www.womensaid.org.uk/give/donate/donate-now/
Photo credit (as seen above): Anthony Dodd Mantle