Firstly, a film that I’ve seen called “Weekend at Bernie’s’ follows a similar premise. “Young insurance corporation employees who discover their boss, Bernie, dead. While attempting to convince people that Bernie is still alive, they discover that Bernie had ordered their deaths to cover up his embezzlement.”
The main points I might take inspiration from is the convincing people the victim is still alive. The following clips are examples of how they did this in Weekend at Bernie’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvITkVaOpUs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd1f5GeUWpg
I wanted to incorporate a drug sequence in order to get more conflict out from the characters. I have a very vague idea of how this will look but I know I want to use 2D animation in live action.
For inspiration I’ve looked at scenes in the film ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ however this does not represent my vision for how it would be filmed particularly because it doesn’t offer much in the hallucination aspect i think i might go down. One aspect to take note of is how the characters look.
Another drug sequence I’ve looked at is from the show “Always Sunny in Philadelphia”. At the end of season 7 episode 13 the gang performs a choreographed dance that looks quite good. At the end, it is revealed that they were on drugs and the dance wasn’t how it actually happened. This is another aspect I’ll look to include in my short film.
Trainspotting, a film that focuses on the use of heroin has a few scenes I’ve looked at. The scene described as ‘Junky Limbo’ shows the character Mark having lots of hallucinations. This is an aspect id want to look into more but on a not so serious level that Trainspotting had done because of the difference in genre.
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