POETIC LOVE BRIEF

One major piece I am developing utilising these influences is a short poetic documentary exploring the nature of love through the eyes of my 92 year old grandmother. Within the context of her two good marriages and lost first true love I will frame the three stages of love: lust, attraction and attainment. the documentary.

I aim to recording only audio recordings with my grandmother. The idea behind this is twofold. Firstly it will allow for a more natural state of recording my grandmother. She is not too keen about being interviewed on camera and in my opinion will lead to a more naturalistic and less forced interview. especially with some of the more delicate topics we will be discussing. Secondly it avoids the conventional “talking heads” by taking them completely out of the picture and will force me into creating more interesting imagery. This audio will then be listened to and edited to create a sound-track that will suggest imagery to accompany it. It combined with a real collage of the cinematically shot footage, animations, archive footage, re-enactments, creative audio and motion graphics. The intention is to aim for a mix of strong imagery and a flavour of avant-garde to bring images to the audio and create an abstract visual sense not merely visually showing what is being discussed but interpreting it and adding a sub-text. Initial ideas include contemporary set re-enactments by family members, use of film clips using "fair usage" policy to bring scenes to life and play on the theme of pairs. This will be coupled with lots of very cinematically shot images of my grandmother in her environments. The aim for the dissemination and exhibition of the piece is for it to be aimed at an online audience, for film festivals and potentially a TV audience. I want it to act as a calling card for my work and a documentary filmmaker and artist.