Danielle and myself have decided to collaborate for the experimental film task. The reason being is that we enjoyed working together on the mini film about digital materialisation. We also found we had lots of similar ideas for style, lighting and colouring in films. I am proud of the short film we made together and have decided to expand this piece into a longer more in depth experimental film.
The film has a theme of Transgression. As I didn't know what this word meant I decided to look it up online. Here is what I found:
Transgression
trɑːnsˈɡrɛʃn,trɑːnzˈɡrɛʃn,transˈɡrɛʃn,tranzˈɡrɛʃn/
noun
- an act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence.
- "I'll be keeping an eye out for further transgressions.
At first I was a little unsure of how we could link our short experimental film to this idea, but discussing with Danielle we came to some ideas. We also discussed previous works we had watched in lesson for inspiration of a style or look we were going for. Here were some of our inspirations:
Berlin Horse - Malcolm Le Grice
We drew inspiration from this film because of the colouring, Danielle and I have a fascination with colour and want to use lots of saturated colours, this film certainly has that. We also liked the repetition of the clips and music as it was almost hypnotising and that's what we want to try and do with our film but in a more digital way.
Black Ice - Stan Brakhage
This was another inspiration of ours as it used such beautiful colour saturation and layering. Danielle and I enjoyed the calmness of it and the hypnotic feel as it draws you in more and more. Again with the same theme of Berlin Horse, we enjoyed the repetition as it created a sense of known and security and that is something we could think about playing with in our film.
Pipilotti Rist - (Entlastungen) Pipilottis Fehler
We were shown this piece in class and instantly we found inspiration. The colour, framing, lighting and all of it we enjoyed. We especially enjoyed the colour and the interesting underscore as we also want to play with music and manipulate it and make it sound as uncomfortable as the visuals. We both really enjoyed this piece and took notes on how striking the colours were and may try and explore them too.
CONCEPT
The concept of our film is to build on the theme of transgression and materialisation as we really got a lot enjoyment out of exploring it before. With the theme of transgression we want to explore the ways media can break rules and the law, and confronting codes and conventions through the ever growing digital world.
TREATMENT
Theme
Exploring materialisation in the digital world today, reflecting from previous examples such as Berlin Horse and Pipilotti's Mistakes.
Visual and Editing Style
Lots of fast cutting, manipulated images, glitching, colour and chaos of visuals. Bright colours to draw your eyes in and manipulated images to draw you in.
Inspirational Artists and Filmmakers
Malcolm Le Grice
Pipilotti
Nam June Paik
Artists we have explored independently
Luke Jerram - sculpture glitch artist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Jerram
Mathieu St-Pierre - digital film and image glitch artist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_St-Pierre
Neil Krug - Photographer http://www.neilkrug.com/
Sabato Visconti - image glitch artist http://www.sabatobox.com/glitch-photography
Frida Kahlo - artist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
Intended audience and mode of viewing
Personally I feel this film's intended audience would be for young adults to fully grown adults. This is because while there won't be any bad language in it, the scene might be a bit too intense amd overwhelming for a younger audience. Plus the abstraction of it all may be a bit hard to follow for a younger audience. I personally feel maybe young to fully grown adults would be able to connect with the film more as they have grown up around technology and it shaping our lives today. The intended mode of viewing I think would be for the film to be screen in a dark room with the film playing on the ceiling. The audience would have to lie down and there for be below the 'Voice of God' playing through the film. The audience would subconsciously submit to the film. Also the vulnerability of lying on your back allows the audience to be absorbed.
I hope you enjoy. Thank you.
I hope you enjoy. Thank you.
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