THEATRICAL FILM
WITH ITS NEVER-SEEN-BEFORE IMAGES, ITS INVENTIVE VISUALS, RHYTHM, SOUND, AND MUSIC, THIS FILM WILL TAKE CINEMA GOERS ON A VOYAGE INTO A WORLD OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Adopting a resolutely esthetic and offbeat style, living creatures will be magnified and filmed from new angles. Viewers will be drawn outside their traditional frame of reference, deprived of the visual bearings they are used to, and swept into a whirlpool of images and emotions. Through this wordless exploration, we will speak directly to their imagination and sensations: dizziness, disorientation, surprise, fear, fascination, amusement, amazement. The general public has no frame of reference when it comes to underwater noise. This gives us considerable latitude to create, drawing on the findings of all current research in this field, which has consigned to history the myth of the “silent world”. Planet Coral rustles with a thousand sounds: a parrotfish nibbles the coral, a giant clam closes with a sound like a cathedral door shutting, fish growl, whistle, and burp, and shrimp squeak. The atmosphere evokes the strange otherworldliness of the known. Planet Coral will offer a fascinating spectacle, often funny, sometimes tragic, depicting the life of the inhabitants of this marine metropolis.
The originality of Planet Coral lies in the collaboration between the sound design and music teams, who will work not one after the other but together, to create a truly original, coral-inspired world. This film is intended for an international family audience. Viewers of all ages will share the joy and emotion of discovering this astonishing world as it has never been filmed before. Ideally, pre-production would begin during 2023 for delivery by 2027, to support political efforts in 2028. At this stage, besides the technical development planned over a period of months, considerable work remains to be done in collaboration with scientists to establish the current state of scientific knowledge about coral. A second phase will then entail incorporating this knowledge into a story worthy of winning the hearts and minds of the widest possible audience.
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