Spring 2017 Previsualization

     In our High Rise previsualization final we chose to use the excerpt from pages 66 and 67. We felt that these scenes did a great job at describing and setting up the differences between the social classes. For our project we decided to do an establishing shot of all the different social classes as they carry out their daily lives.      The opening shot starts with the lobby, where the different classes interact with each other. As the camera moves upwards really quickly, floors in between are blurred out. This is meant to give the viewer an idea of the length of the building. After the rapid upwards movement, the camera slows down to show the lower class. We specifically wanted the person in the lower class to just come back from an overnight shift from work. We wanted the person's life to look sad and distraught. Then the camera moves up again and skips the other lower class floors. The camera then stops at the middle class floor. This scene shows the...

High-Rise Excerpt pgs. 66 – 67 “In effect, the high-rise had already dived itself into the three classical social groups, its lower, middle, and upper class. The 10th-floor shopping mall formed a clear boundary between the lower nine floors, with their ‘proletariat’ of film technicians, air-hostesses and the like, and the middle section of this high-rise, which extended from the 10th floor to the swimming pool and restaurant deck on the 35th. This central two-thirds of the apartment building formed its middle class, made up of self-centered but basically docile members of the professions – the doctors and lawyers, accountants and tax specialists who worked, not for themselves, but for medical institutes and large corporations. Puritan and self-disciplined, they had all the cohesion of those eager to settle for second best. Above them, on the top five floors of the high-rise, was its upper class, the discreet oligarchy of minor tycoons and entrepreneurs, television actresses and care...