Currently I am still toying with several ideas and a 1-1 tutorial is a good time to catch up with all of these and take stock of where I am and how to move these forward. Currently I have lots of ideas on the drawing board with some on the back-burner and others brought to the front. I feel I need to push on further with these but as of yet none of them have me fully fired up to concentrate solely on developing them.
GLOBAL WARMNING
These is the idea that I have been researching and spending the most time on to date and have created an outline test for an installation. However I am not all that happy with it as it is and it needs further development. There was some good feedback from my peers concerning this though andI am currently working through this. However one issue I have continually had is doing a lot of research for one project and then only creating one piece of work for it. What I intend to do as well as looking at developing the installation idea is looking at other ways to communicate the message. This will fit in really well with the modules aims which is to create a body of work too but the central theme will be global warming.
One of the issues levelled at my installation ideas was that the message has become dull and laboured and what is really needed is new and interesting ways to communicate it to an audience. I will explore this and possibly online virals, micro-docs, fictional or semi-fictional works, spoofs, TV adverts and motion graphics to see what other ways may be able to communicate the message effectively and interestingly and perhaps entertain and engage the audience first and foremost but also inform and educate second.
I was recommended some interesting artists and filmmakers to look at (Phil Coy, Bruce Conner, Terrence Davies and Cory Archangel) films Plastic Ocean and exhibitions such as Offshore in Hull to look at by my tutor.
JANES WALKS
A collaboration with another student (Sara) on the course to create a record of an Art walk she is doing. I will be acting as camera and documentarian of the walk but more discussion is needed as to the true nature of the piece being created. A simple document or record of the walk? A homage to Jane Jacobs the academic and writer on urban life and living which the walk is part of a celebration of her ideas? A documentary on what walking as art is and could be using this walk as a window into the world of walking as art and practitioners? An art film piece in itself dealing with and celebrating all of the above possibly.
In terms of what I could get out of it simply recording it and editing it are not what has got me interested but I feel I could use the walk to create an art piece celebrating a lot of the above. Possibly using IV's, commentary, Sara as a presenter and guide to communicate what the walk is all about. This will also open lots of opportunities for creating a visually and aurally interesting art piece and not just a run of the mill documentary. It would allow use of studio footage, possibly green screen kinetic typography and interesting use of motion graphics to create the documentary which are all ideas I am keen to take to the next level.
ANONYMOUS
This started off as a documentary idea around a character who wanted to remain anonymous (graffiti artist) so the film would rely on lots of interesting filming techniques, effects and motion graphics to keep them anonymous. It was more about exploring these techniques but marrying them with a subject matter that suited them. I still like the idea of this but have been looking into taking it further and either making it a scripted reality documentary.
Another possibility is to simply find an interesting character and explore them using some of these techniques to push the boundaries of documentary filmmaking and explore the "truth" and the grey areas between fact and fiction. I like the possibilities of this and possibly exploring the multi faceted educations, ideologies, morality, belief system, loves and hates of one character may also suit itself well to this multi-faceted technique.
I have approached a friend who I think would make a really good subject matter and we are in very early primary research discussions on how this piece could work. Possibly some sort of visually and aurally stimulating scripted reality style doco. This idea is a little on a back burner but I will continue to ruminate on it and research and develop it in the background.
CINEMATIQUE
The purpose of this piece is once again to push the boundaries of what constitutes a documentary by creating a site specific work celebrating the joy of cinema going. I envisage lots of little screens replacing the heads of the audience in a cinema auditorium and each one being a mini documentary of one audience member and cinema going fan from somewhere in the county. The audience could then move around the auditorium and build their own personal documentary by choosing who they wanted to hear from. I have started to draw up rough visuals and to explore the questions and mood and tone of the piece. as well as this I have been investigating how technically (iPads, mini screens) it could work in the cinema environment. I have also been considering what could go on the big screen and researching the ideas of audience, group sharing of texts and notion of looking.
Moving forward I will aim to move this idea forward by doing a visual mock up of how the piece could look, develop the questions and look to film some tests and get an iPad working or possibly even e few
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