This story is about an Icarus and her muse. Is he an apparition, or just a trick of flickering light putting voices into her head? Genre: Engineering Fantasy This is a 5-6 minute short film I'm making to test out camera, lighting, sound, and special effects before using them in Project Folly. Both short films are probably going to look and sound awful anyway, so I'm depending 98% on deep story and the other 2% on huge mechanical papercrafts that I design and actually build as props---and further yet make available for everyone to download! ;) Both films will use live actors, papercrafted or 3D-printed props all designed by me, a green screen for substituting hand-drawn backgrounds, candles and commandeered house lamps for lighting, whatever my musician mom has for sound recording equipment, and hopefully a camera with accelerated frame-rate ("slow-mo") capability. That last one is a big hopefully, but my regular camera is an ok fallback. Videography was something I learned by doing camera work for some friends of mine who happened to be professionals. Our promotional feature never involved sci-fi or a green-screen, however. Basically I'm making everything up as I go, and watching hundreds of hours worth of special features on all my family's DVDs. :XD: I see little point in taking film classes, since even the career filmmakers (of today) suck at pretty much everything that's important. Like ideas. If 3D and BlueRay truly mattered, no one would still be emulating "Metropolis" from 1927. As a life-rule of mine, I only take advice from people I want to end up like; extending that motto to filmmaking, I only study films that I would want my films to turn out like. "Hero", "Sky Captain", "Eye of the Storm", "Mary Shelly's Frankenstein", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", pre-"Fantasia" Disney animation, "Gaslight", "The Ghost & Mrs Muir", "9", "Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog", and not too many others----most seem to be real oddities in the industry.