So, here's the deal. My kids have been playing with 3.75" action figures a lot lately and "mixing" the universes - it's mainly the Marvel Universe figures and Star Wars figures. But there are a couple others (Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Trek, etc.).
We have some cameras and stuff that I was thinking would be cool to use to make a movie with the characters. We've played around with it and tested out how to shoot the characters and whatnot, but I was thinking it would be cool to teach them how to use the camera to create interesting angles and shots. I have iMovie and would take the scenes we shoot and edit them into a movie with sound effects, etc.
The problem is I'm no good at creating a story to shoot, and they don't really know what I'm talking bout when I tell them what we will be doing to the point where they can make up a story beforehand so we know what scenes to set up, what characters should be in them, and how to shoot them.
The only real idea I had was to have Dr. Doom set up a machine that can break into other dimensions which would cause universes to become all jumbled up. So "movie Thor" (one of the figures we have) and "comic book Thor" could meet, and could interact with Luke Skywalker, etc. Dr. Doom steals the Millennium Falcon, etc.
I have no idea how to construct a story to do this. I just have loose ideas, none of them fleshed out or developed enough to be able to plan shooting a scene.
Any thoughts? Ideas?
We have some cameras and stuff that I was thinking would be cool to use to make a movie with the characters. We've played around with it and tested out how to shoot the characters and whatnot, but I was thinking it would be cool to teach them how to use the camera to create interesting angles and shots. I have iMovie and would take the scenes we shoot and edit them into a movie with sound effects, etc.
The problem is I'm no good at creating a story to shoot, and they don't really know what I'm talking bout when I tell them what we will be doing to the point where they can make up a story beforehand so we know what scenes to set up, what characters should be in them, and how to shoot them.
The only real idea I had was to have Dr. Doom set up a machine that can break into other dimensions which would cause universes to become all jumbled up. So "movie Thor" (one of the figures we have) and "comic book Thor" could meet, and could interact with Luke Skywalker, etc. Dr. Doom steals the Millennium Falcon, etc.
I have no idea how to construct a story to do this. I just have loose ideas, none of them fleshed out or developed enough to be able to plan shooting a scene.
Any thoughts? Ideas?