Sketch / Outline

Very rough sketch of some ideas for the story line for the Pattern Recognition video and the visuals used to convey it. Still a lot of work to do to refine this and get pacing, etc. but it's a start.

Visual themes: backgrounds are speed blurred: buildings are vertically speed blurred, street level is horizontally speed blurred. Superimposed on the blurred images of buildings and cars is a pencil sketch or high pass filtered outline of reality. People have the ghost-like presence of time-lapse photography, moving ethereally like partially transpartent shadows with blurred
details and outlines.

Intro:
perspective shot looking down the neck of a bass guitar.
The 4 strings dissolve into a speed-blurred vision of a highway at night, 2 strings glowing red, 2 white.

Zoom down the highway. As it dives into a tunnel, continue zoom into a shot of a man looking into a store-front window at night. Zoom in on the main character's reflection in a window of a shop that sells robotic parts and android accessories. His face is in darkness except for peripheral highlighting, edge lit jaw line, brow. Continuing the zoom, from the rear, we seem him slot a .5"x2" black cartridge into a slot near the base of his skull, and we zoom in front of the cartridge, racing along fibre optic pathways. As the cartridge engages, our point of view flips to his point of view. Zoom in on the reflection of shaded eyes as the pupils and sclera suddently glow white. (possibly from the reflected headlights of a passing car??). The gleam suffuses the character until his reflection is glowing like a lightbulb, as diffuse and semi-transparent as the greyish ghostlike people that stream past, but with an intense light radiating from him.

He/we turn down a back alley. A discarded android replicant / Asimo robot is lying broken against the left wall. On the right side of the alley is a fire-escape with a bare lightbulb suspended above the top landing. A vertical sign that reads "VIVID" in shades of neon purple and white identifies the door at the top as leading to a club of some form.

We ascend the stairs to the open door and the view is chaotic - a band is playing pattern recognition, shadowy movement swirls through the crowded dance floor, hexagonal tiling pulsing to the music. The scene zooms in on a light source and floods to white.

Sunlight streaming against a white wall. Backing up shows the shadows of the window, with a rear-view of a man (the protagonist??) sitting on the edge of a bed (slotting in a cartridge??) Zooming in, the view flips to his perspective.

The panes of the window multiply like cells, become the projections of a rapid cascade of image sections, speed blurred puzzle pieces that rearrange and snap into flashbacks of the preceding scenes, or into abstract geometric patterns, or into ??? Data readouts are superimposed on the display, as well as outlines in white - e.g. Bato's visual display in Ghost in the shell 2, or the terminator's visual display. Scenes of dna spiral helixes, neurons and glial cells, computer lights flashing, 7 segment number sequences or binary data flows against gradient backgrounds.

The eureka moment is a memory image. (Perhaps some photograph of an Aibo remote controlled robot dog in someone's arms??) The speed blurs snap out of existence. The sky is cloudy with sun rays streaming through. There are flowers and birds. We watch as it digitizes and pixelates into larger and larger blocks and dissolves to black.