VolaVola/Fly Me – the Movie
a new feature film from Berardo Carboni
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"VolaVola/Fly Me" is a new feature machinima by the Italian director Berardo Carboni (Shooting Silvio - now distributed by 20th Century Fox ).
The project is currently in production in the virtual world of Second Life.
VolaVola is a project for the making of 2 movies from the same script, a first draft in progress is shot entirely inside Second Life with the innovative technique of machinima and will be an animation movie; the other will be made mostly in the real world with traditional technologies and players in flesh and bones. The animated version will not only be the extraordinary storyboard of the movie but will have its own dignity, the two projects will be indeed strictly connected.
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Volavola is about the relationship between man, happiness and time, it’s about emotions getting weak and the need not to get lost in habits, the need to keep searching, it’s also about the natural decline of love and the need to protect it, to keep it alive.
VolaVola investigates how it gets more and more difficult to determine what is real and what is fake. In the two movies indeed we will find at the same time real avatars and real people will act just acting themselves and fantasy characters.
Volavola’s main them is the values of digital society as an important human heritage analysing it from a sociological (although vaguely surreal) point of you, and not from a futuristic one, and considering them as one of the few things to protect in order to make the world a better place to live.
Volavola takes place in the real world, in Rome, where, as everywhere now, more and more often it happens to bump into places and people from another universe.
The second movie, shot thorugh machinima and where avatars act, is intended for niche but popular on a global scale, it will be broadcasted in Second Life cinemas, in streaming on the Internet, as attachment of new technologies and new trends magazines and TV channels with compatible contents.
The movie shot with actors in flesh and bones and traditional technology is intended for a wider audience and is designed to follow a classic distribution route.
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SYNOPSIS
Volavola is a choral story which tries to describe the different aspects of contemporary life by comparing lifestyles, feelings and world views of three different generations.
As the story goes on, the main characters’ events, apparently unrelated at first, link so much with each other to eventually belong to the same family. The three main stories are about Ugo and Francesca, Annalisa and Carlo and Matteo and Sofia.
Ugo and Francesca grew up into a world which seems so far away now, where media used to have no central role in consciences growth and the definition of needs; they live present life but they are deeply confused, filled with a deep sense of nostalgia; they keep looking for a new balance and a new harmony. But they might be lost forever.
Annalisa and Carlo grew into the showbiz and they need to be part of it, to be good-looking and famous forever as in soap operas. Annalisa is a well-known journalist; she is not so young any longer and cannot accept the idea of time going by, leaving evident marks on her body. Carlo is younger than her, but he is not famous yet. Carlo and Annalisa need each other but misunderstandings, their selfishness and their craving for success drag their story in a growing spiral of madness.
Matteo and Sofia are growing now, in the Internet era, they feel distant from the models of the past; they express their identity through new instruments; their future is hopeful and uncertain at the same time: it is difficult for them to sort their dreams without models and reference points. Their story remains suspended in a dreamlike atmosphere, culminating in a no longer linear time and space, as it always happens in dreams, myths and in pure happiness moments.
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