Kalkin Revelation
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| - | Revelation is the first installment of the story of Kalkin. It shows the slow awakening of the artificial life, and its childish, undeveloped tries to get into contact with Ping - one of the main characters. Kalkin uses Ping's artificial eyes as a way to see, and therefore has a close connection to her already. She is not previously aware of the presence. | + | ''Revelation'' is the first installment of the story of Kalkin. It shows the slow awakening of the artificial life, and its childish, undeveloped tries to get into contact with Ping - one of the main characters. Kalkin uses Ping's artificial eyes as a way to see, and therefore has a close connection to her already. She is not aware of the presence. Throughout this prologue of the full story Kalkin reveals itself slowly and Ping, Azrael and Big Fish are trying to figure out what it actually is that wants to get into contact with them. This part of the story plays only on the anarchic side of the city. |
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| - | ==Act 0 - Title and Establishing Scene== | + | |
| - | We are opening the movie with a flight from way above into the divided city of Berlin (in a map/3D stlye) in the year 2028. One half is very green while the other is white and only has sparse green spots here and there. All the surrounding land is absolutely green with white spots resembling corporate greenhouses here and there (that are huge). We then see the "white" side - its huge clean structures blink up and the text "Bayeonia" comes into view. Scenes of futuristic surveillence cameras/robots, Clean white glassy architecture and people in corporate dress working like robots show up (maybe intercut with robots). We cut back to the top view of the city this time the "east" side blinks. | + | |
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| - | Visions of the divided city in an artistic poster performance style showing various aspects of the Bayeonia (survellience and robot like workers etc.) and a little bit of B. and a map of the city and the wall. | + | |
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| - | ==Act 1 - Protagonist Introduction== | + | |
| - | ===Ping's point of view=== | + | |
| - | Zooming out of poster performance and showing Ping being distracted by a beautiful butterfly. she watches it for a couple of seconds and shortly later we see her incorporating it into the poster piece. | + | |
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| - | ===Az's point of view=== | + | |
| - | Training in one area - jumping over a railing, stretching, different vaults. Working hard, very focussed. | + | |
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| - | ===Big Fish's point of view=== | + | |
| - | Doing some nano-bot tests on a disembodied blind eye, connected to a screen. He drops some liquid onto the eye and, part digitally and part biologically, the eye changes slightly and a picture of the professor forms on the screen. However, after a few seconds the picture starts breaking up, and the eye starts deteriorating, maybe turning black - the experiment was not quite a success. | + | |
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| - | Maybe there is a screen in the background showing the Game of Life with very complex patterns. | + | |
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| - | ==Act 2== | + | |
| - | ===Ping's point of view=== | + | |
| - | Packs up her stuff. Walks through the city, perhaps meeting someone on the way. Makes a minor installation on the way with just the butterfly (not important) and then finds a good spot to put her final piece up. When watching the installed piece there is a brief moment where the signal cuts into a stream of binary numbers - 'LIFE' in binary code. | + | |
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| - | Then she rewinds to check if it was a mistake she made. But there is nothing but the original piece of visual showing. She has done her job for the day and rolls an old-school spliff and climbs a building to chill over the city (to watch the sunset perhaps?) after wandering around a bit. | + | |
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| - | ===Az's point of view=== | + | |
| - | Preparing for race, signing in at start line. Maybe puts a small bag in a locker. | + | |
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| - | ===Big Fish's point of view=== | + | |
| - | Checks e-mails - many pleas for help and questions about nano-technology and other high-tech systems. Perhaps some error messages on the screen to show problems with the network? | + | |
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| - | Prepares some small plants for Ping's arrival. | + | |
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| - | ==Act 3== | + | |
| - | ===Ping's point of view=== | + | |
| - | From the viewpoint of the roof top she sees Az and other runners running past in the distance. Then focuses on Az running in the street below and slamming into a door (slapsticky). After a few attempts to run through the door he sees her laughing on the roof briefly. Feeling caught redhanded - even though she is innocent of manipulating the door - she grabs her stuff (perhaps dropping something to give him a lead). | + | |
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| - | Az - pissed off - takes a different route. | + | |
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| - | Ping runs off laughing ('oh it was funny'), running down the stairs into an alleyway and turning around to check that he is not following her. Then she goes to Big Fish's greenhouse and tends his plants. Eats something picked from the plants - tomato. She shows the professor the loop of Azrael running into the door - they both laugh. She makes a new loop of it and on the way home sprays it onto several walls (at least three). Caption next to the loop "Wonders of modern technology" or similar. | + | |
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| - | She goes into her apartment. Changes the walls (screens) to a relaxed midnight ocean setting and goes to sleep. | + | |
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| - | ===Az's point of view=== | + | |
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| - | ===Big Fish's point of view=== | + | |
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| - | ==Act 4== | + | |
| - | ===Ping and Az=== | + | |
| - | She gets woken up by a knock on the door and kind of sleepwalks over to the door, opens it. Az pushes in - they have a fight. Somehow her eyes get covered (by t-shirt being pulled) and she freaks out and pulls out a small spray can and sprays it into his face. He immediately falls asleep. | + | |
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| - | Black out | + | |
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| - | He wakes up and she is looking at him, maybe having just fed him some sort of cure. | + | |
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| - | They sit down and converse. Converstation sequence with scripted words on the wall out mouth etc pp. | + | |
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| - | * Az: "I lost because of you!" | + | |
| - | * Ping: "Why me?" | + | |
| - | * Az: "You were fucking around with those doors!" | + | |
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| - | Az gives Ping the chip he pulled from her installation and gives it to Ping. She plugs it into her wall and it shows Az running into the door. | + | |
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| - | * Az: "Who if not you?" | + | |
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| - | The moment she shrugs somethings happens - A binary code rifts through the loop - "IT WAS ME!!!!" (un-readable) | + | |
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| - | They both look really puzzled. | + | |
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| - | She has a brainwave and looks through her recording database and finds the place where she recorded the installation from the beginning of the film (butterfly loop) with the code appearing shortly. | + | |
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| - | Ping pulls out her floating nano-screen and puts in the binary code that is then translated into ASCII characters that spell out "LIFE" and "IT WAS ME!!!!". They look puzzled. | + | |
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| - | Az proposes to see Big Fish to find out who is sending the messages. | + | |
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| - | * Ping: "Big Fish? You know him?" | + | |
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| - | Az nods. | + | |
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| - | looking puzzled again. | + | |
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| - | * Ping : "Ok good idea!" | + | |
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| - | nodding, they leave. | + | |
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| - | ===Big Fish's point of view=== | + | |
| - | Sits down with a big old book about artificial life, and a glass of wine or similar. Slowly falls asleep, reading. Dream sequence with the characters on the page turning into the dots in the Game of Life, then creating some sort of face. | + | |
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| - | ==Act 5== | + | |
| - | ===Ping, Az and Big Fish=== | + | |
| - | They arrive at Big Fish Laboratory. He looks shocked and surprised to see them together and asks them in. Ping shows him the loops she recorded with the binary code in them. She gives him the chips. They wait for Big Fish to check on the chips. The power cuts out. Big Fish turns on some strange-looking floating nano-lights. Big Fish fiddles with something. The power comes back on. Chips are fried because of the power cut. They look disappointed. Then they decide to go to the sliding door to check it. Whilst they are walking, the street lights flicker around them and signs are changing behind their backs and other electrical abnormalities (which they don't notice). They get to the door and place sensor by it - which strangely opens and closes on its own. Big Fish picks up a signal and with the data collected reassures them and returns to the lab to research it, and contact his hacker friend. Ping and Azrael go off and have a conversation in some shady underground bar. On the way, two or three street sign change to a "Hello! I am here!". One of the two trips over a Kalkin installation but still isn´t recognizing it as such. They go through the city and go to the park and then a hello appears in her eyes. | + | |
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| - | They all go back to the lab and they call a hacker who says he does not know anything and that he would call them back. Big Fish analyzing the signal they picked up sees the connection extend everywhere on the vast network. | + | |
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| - | When he comes back to tell them there is no | + | |
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| - | ===Big Fish's point of view=== | + | |
| - | The professor nods in amazement. | + | |
| - | He takes the chips from Ping and inspects them closely. | + | |
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| - | ==Ending== | + | |
| - | ===Ping's point of view=== | + | |
| - | She goes to some open space and relaxes, looking at the stars. Maybe she smokes again. As she watches, some of the stars start turning into the butterfly from earlier. She enjoys it a while (thinking it's maybe a hallucination) but then rewinds her recorder to see it again and the butterflies are still there - she really did see them. | + | |
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| - | ===Az's point of view=== | + | |
| - | He is returning home and looks at his tracker but it shows an error message "NETWORK BUSY" or similar. | + | |
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| - | ===Big Fish's point of view=== | + | |
| - | The hacker shows him a normal connection to control the door (a single link), and then a hacker's connection to control the door (four or five links), but Big Fish's data shows links from every possible direction, pulsing and moving like a computerised brain-scan. | + | |
Current revision
Revelation is the first installment of the story of Kalkin. It shows the slow awakening of the artificial life, and its childish, undeveloped tries to get into contact with Ping - one of the main characters. Kalkin uses Ping's artificial eyes as a way to see, and therefore has a close connection to her already. She is not aware of the presence. Throughout this prologue of the full story Kalkin reveals itself slowly and Ping, Azrael and Big Fish are trying to figure out what it actually is that wants to get into contact with them. This part of the story plays only on the anarchic side of the city.