Actually, you could dress the set with it already there and just introduce the scene in dim lighting so as not to actually reveal it until necessary. You could do the same with basic photographic direction, particularly since the wall in question really isn't even a focus of the action until the particular moment it is necessary to shoot it.
I had the film short opinion of at least another of the stories in TCF,WL. Actually, now that I'm looking back at them, plenty of them are. To pick only a few: "Redress for Andromeda" (again, student/amateur or even experimental film; makeup effect probably the largest necessary expenditure), "The Road of Pins" (A graduate level film, perhaps, requiring a bit more production value and polish from the actors; also prime material for a integrated arts film/stage project), and "Onion" (which might lend itself well to some kind of short Twilight-Zone-ish format of a short teleplay if only for the SFX likely necessary). As much as I loved the story, "Apokatastasis", is just the kind of story that gets blown up into a needlessly overwrought and producer-meddled "horror" film that would probably make the skin crawl. No offense to the story or yourself (it is, in my opinion, one of the stories that really got me at heart), but I've got a bad feeling about what would happen if a producer got ahold of it.
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Date: 2006-02-20 10:39 pm (UTC)I had the film short opinion of at least another of the stories in TCF,WL. Actually, now that I'm looking back at them, plenty of them are. To pick only a few: "Redress for Andromeda" (again, student/amateur or even experimental film; makeup effect probably the largest necessary expenditure), "The Road of Pins" (A graduate level film, perhaps, requiring a bit more production value and polish from the actors; also prime material for a integrated arts film/stage project), and "Onion" (which might lend itself well to some kind of short Twilight-Zone-ish format of a short teleplay if only for the SFX likely necessary). As much as I loved the story, "Apokatastasis", is just the kind of story that gets blown up into a needlessly overwrought and producer-meddled "horror" film that would probably make the skin crawl. No offense to the story or yourself (it is, in my opinion, one of the stories that really got me at heart), but I've got a bad feeling about what would happen if a producer got ahold of it.