GarotoNeon

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Note of intent

We see our hometown, Porto Alegre, as a city of departures. A large number of the youth has been moving away to bigger cities, as if Porto Alegre is not enough to them. What is left for the ones who remain here are the memories. We want to work with intimate and biographical themes. We move on searching for honest and sensitive universes. GarotoNeon is a film about a young man surrounded by people that each day seem more distant and difuse. And, just like Pedro, we also wish to perpetuate our feelings through moving images.

Synopsis

Pedro, 25 years old, is abandoned by his older sister, Luiza, who moves to another country. He, a performer for an erotic website, isolates himself in the dark world of his bedroom, in the search of something that can fill his emptyness. One day, he meets another performer, Leo, a 19 year-old boy, that soon becomes his work partner. They fall in love, while thousands of people watch them through the webcam. Tired of the lack of privacy, they turn off the lights. And find out that love glows in the dark.

Visual concept

We want to explore the webcam as a significant part of the narrative. It is very important to create two different worlds – the virtual and the material ones. The camera will be more steady, with slow movements in the material world. It is a colder, less vivid environment. In the virtual one, the characters can manipulate the camera themselves. Cut-ins in the pixelated image will help to create a more lively and free atmosphere. If the sound is realistic and noisy in one world, in the other becomes almost as if suspended, with very little to hear.