I would like to explore interviews of different types of anonymous people. With close ups of only certain body parts.
The faces of these people interviewed will not be revealed. Each person will tell a story. All will be very private, and it will be up to the person being interviewed to choose which body part will be filmed. It depends on how far they are willing to go. I have original music that can be used to add to the content.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Assignment Write Up
The film shoot on Friday September 17 started off rocky but by the end of the night, went really well.
The said shot list was not followed exactly as prescribed above, but we found new direction as we started filming.
It was a very inspiring learning process.
After speaking with Jill after class on Wed., I came to some new realizations concerning the piece and it sparked new ideas.
Being without a vehicle I am limited with what i can carry on my bike, so getting a hold of certain resources is difficult, so i just work with what i've got; turns out i've got a lot! I went rummaging through my room to find tons of things to work with and help with character development for our main subject. Jill had suggested going to Target and buying lots of things to shoot with, then returning them after, which is a great idea, I just had limited opportunities to do that.
I found clothing, instruments, and all sorts of various objects that were representative of our ultra-feminine character. It was extremely satisfying to me, actually placing all the objects where they belonged and making sure they were just right in the space with the lighting. The lighting took up a lot of our shooting time. I'd say with preparation and shooting time the material we have on film took a total of about 6 hours to produce. Our actress we had schedule to be our main character flaked out at the last minute (literally didnt hear from then at all the day of the shoot. Call time was at 7:30pm, i was working hard to find someone around 6pm once i had heard from her. Someone who lived in my apartment agreed to do it immediately, but she wasn't exactly right for the part, but then i happened to stumble into another friend Delilah Heck who happened to have time. So she eagerly and willingly did all that Maggie and I directed her to do, which made it SO MUCH EASIER. All i could think the entire time of how much worse it would have been if we would have been stuck with some difficult actress who wasn't so congenial.
So the idea was pretty much solidified 2 weeks before hand when we first came up with the idea, but it was really interesting how the storyline seemed to grow and develop more with not only the actress we were working with, but the added elements (props, lighting,etc.). The actress Delilah, is a youthful looking 35-year old woman, which wasn't exactly what we had in mind at first, but ended up working better. The tight space in the bathroom was difficult to maneuver in at times with three people and set lighting, but we managed to make it work! I really enjoyed this whole experience. I feel very comfortable working with the all the equipment and am looking forward to doing it again soon.
The said shot list was not followed exactly as prescribed above, but we found new direction as we started filming.
It was a very inspiring learning process.
After speaking with Jill after class on Wed., I came to some new realizations concerning the piece and it sparked new ideas.
Being without a vehicle I am limited with what i can carry on my bike, so getting a hold of certain resources is difficult, so i just work with what i've got; turns out i've got a lot! I went rummaging through my room to find tons of things to work with and help with character development for our main subject. Jill had suggested going to Target and buying lots of things to shoot with, then returning them after, which is a great idea, I just had limited opportunities to do that.
I found clothing, instruments, and all sorts of various objects that were representative of our ultra-feminine character. It was extremely satisfying to me, actually placing all the objects where they belonged and making sure they were just right in the space with the lighting. The lighting took up a lot of our shooting time. I'd say with preparation and shooting time the material we have on film took a total of about 6 hours to produce. Our actress we had schedule to be our main character flaked out at the last minute (literally didnt hear from then at all the day of the shoot. Call time was at 7:30pm, i was working hard to find someone around 6pm once i had heard from her. Someone who lived in my apartment agreed to do it immediately, but she wasn't exactly right for the part, but then i happened to stumble into another friend Delilah Heck who happened to have time. So she eagerly and willingly did all that Maggie and I directed her to do, which made it SO MUCH EASIER. All i could think the entire time of how much worse it would have been if we would have been stuck with some difficult actress who wasn't so congenial.
So the idea was pretty much solidified 2 weeks before hand when we first came up with the idea, but it was really interesting how the storyline seemed to grow and develop more with not only the actress we were working with, but the added elements (props, lighting,etc.). The actress Delilah, is a youthful looking 35-year old woman, which wasn't exactly what we had in mind at first, but ended up working better. The tight space in the bathroom was difficult to maneuver in at times with three people and set lighting, but we managed to make it work! I really enjoyed this whole experience. I feel very comfortable working with the all the equipment and am looking forward to doing it again soon.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
How To Do Your Do
Concept: Our aim is to draw attention to the comedy and absurdity in a simulation of "beauty."
Character: Gladys Faye Jones(1985), a young woman we meet in her home. She wears pink fuzzy slippers, a bathrobe, and she's an all around hot mess.
Prop List:
1) hairspray
2) combs
3) curling iron/rollers
4) pedestal
5) glitter
6) pink fuzzy slippers
7) bathrobe
8) fruit
9) pencil
10) other junk
11) makeup-brightly colored, dramatic stuff
Location: Bathroom at Marcella's Apt
Shot List:
1) Scene opens with Gladys waking up-we see her feet getting out of bed and slipping into the pink slippers.
2) Fuzzy slippers shuffle down the hall and into the bathroom.
3) Fuzzy slippers are shown as Gladys sits on toilet (granny panties).
4) Gladys gets up and stands in front of the mirror-this is when we first see Gladys' face (slow shot from feet up to face.)
5) Upon looking in the mirror, Gladys winces and looks distressed.
6) Then she looks at her vanity. The camera focuses on certain grooming items. Some of these items are random and insignificant but there are combs and a bottle of hairspray-essential to the development of the film.
7) Gladys gets an idea-this is apparent on her face-the scene is shot as if the mirror is the camera, looking at her.
8) We see Gladys' idea-a glorified image of hairspray on a golden pedestal.
9) Gladys then looks in the mirror with the hairspray and comb in both hands. The camera is behind her right shoulder, looking at her, looking in the mirror.
10) She then begins to mess with her ratty hair, pulling things out of the nest on her head: gum, pencils, condom, an old piece of fruit.
11) Gladys begins to brush her hair, occasionally finding more treasures in her locks.
12) Once brushed, she begins to tease her hair.
13) If hotcurlers available, she uses those and sits around reading a book. If not, she just curls her hair.
14) Back to combing and teasing.
15) Random glitter is thrown into the shot and Gladys is pleased. She continues to poof her hair and incorporate the glitter into her do.
16) Gladys picks up hairspray and a fog begins to grow around her.
17) Fog clears (lens should be fogged as well-with steam) and Gladys has a finished product. In addition to this, her makeup is somehow magically done.
18) Gladys smiles at herself awkwardly in the mirror and the scene cuts.
....iNSPIRATION
Character: Gladys Faye Jones(1985), a young woman we meet in her home. She wears pink fuzzy slippers, a bathrobe, and she's an all around hot mess.
Prop List:
1) hairspray
2) combs
3) curling iron/rollers
4) pedestal
5) glitter
6) pink fuzzy slippers
7) bathrobe
8) fruit
9) pencil
10) other junk
11) makeup-brightly colored, dramatic stuff
Location: Bathroom at Marcella's Apt
Shot List:
1) Scene opens with Gladys waking up-we see her feet getting out of bed and slipping into the pink slippers.
2) Fuzzy slippers shuffle down the hall and into the bathroom.
3) Fuzzy slippers are shown as Gladys sits on toilet (granny panties).
4) Gladys gets up and stands in front of the mirror-this is when we first see Gladys' face (slow shot from feet up to face.)
5) Upon looking in the mirror, Gladys winces and looks distressed.
6) Then she looks at her vanity. The camera focuses on certain grooming items. Some of these items are random and insignificant but there are combs and a bottle of hairspray-essential to the development of the film.
7) Gladys gets an idea-this is apparent on her face-the scene is shot as if the mirror is the camera, looking at her.
8) We see Gladys' idea-a glorified image of hairspray on a golden pedestal.
9) Gladys then looks in the mirror with the hairspray and comb in both hands. The camera is behind her right shoulder, looking at her, looking in the mirror.
10) She then begins to mess with her ratty hair, pulling things out of the nest on her head: gum, pencils, condom, an old piece of fruit.
11) Gladys begins to brush her hair, occasionally finding more treasures in her locks.
12) Once brushed, she begins to tease her hair.
13) If hotcurlers available, she uses those and sits around reading a book. If not, she just curls her hair.
14) Back to combing and teasing.
15) Random glitter is thrown into the shot and Gladys is pleased. She continues to poof her hair and incorporate the glitter into her do.
16) Gladys picks up hairspray and a fog begins to grow around her.
17) Fog clears (lens should be fogged as well-with steam) and Gladys has a finished product. In addition to this, her makeup is somehow magically done.
18) Gladys smiles at herself awkwardly in the mirror and the scene cuts.
....iNSPIRATION
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Self Critique
1. When I'm Alone
2. Sense of my own personal place- the world i create in my bedroom
3. My initial intention was to focus in on certain parts of my personal space that revealed different aspects of myself. In this video i am specifically focusing on an environment where one feels completely comfortable, where there are no pressures to put yourself in any particular "place", other than your own. A place where you know where everything goes and you are in control of where it belongs.
I am concentrating on one's personal living space or bedroom. The way that people keep their environment reflects on who they are.
4.i wanted to expose my tendencies to be a slightly neurotic and indecisive dreamer. I waned to try to add relatable aspects, like getting dressed and collected items to connect with the audience. The things i have are not entirely for me, but partially for the public, for guests when they visit my room to elicit another idea of who i am, by the things i own.
5. Set in a sort of "fly on the wall" perspective, I open the film with my accordion playing because it is an important part of who i am, and it is a sound one may hear through the door before entering my room, so it was a very realistic element to draw the viewer into my environment. Then a series of shots of myself, intentionally unidentified, doing other habitual things. My hand lights an incense and slipping my feet into sandals. i find myself going back to certain things, playing accordion, then going to my closet trying to decide on clothing to wear, looking up at my walls. There are empty envelopes pasted on the wall, i start to look at certain ones, because they remind me of people and places. Being a nostalgic and slightly sentimental person, that is exactly why they are hung on my wall. I glance at my encyclopedias, the maps on my wall to elicit myself day dreaming and staring off into space. Then i light incense again to try and do something productive to pull myself out of my dream world. I try listening to records, looking into my trunk full of shoes to maybe pick out a different pair of shoes. Then once i start to feel lonesome i listen to a recording of my grandfather and grandmother's voices on a cassette tape to feel some sort of comfort. I glance at my bed, so's maybe to get in it and take a nap, but i restlessly pick up the accordion instead to play a song again. Then i return to bed. The second to last shot is of the dream catcher to symbolize sleep. I close with the lit incense still burning to leave the viewer with the idea that the cycles of my normal day are never ending.
6. I discovered that there were too many ideas competing throughout the piece. The theme was not cohesive enough to really even discuss any further.
7. The strengths are that the viewer does get a sense of a person being in a place, but the shaky camera work and other technical aspects of the piece are distracting. I have a lot of different ideas to draw from, which is helpful for future work. I think it was interesting having the accordion as the main character for the piece. The shot of the shoes was interesting and mysterious because it was difficult to decipher what it was exactly.
8. The piece overall is too staged. And my shots are too long and boring. I got suggestions to use the accordion music continuously throughout the piece, and to include more mundane objects to have a different kind of balance.
9. The alligator head was kitchy but could be used in a more effective way to maybe show the misconceptions or mass produced ideas of what society or people outside of the Louisiana culture think "Creole" is. It was tough maneuvering the laptop camera to shoot things in front of me. I need to distill this film and widdle it down, create more of a focus. i need to pay attention to my use of sound and rhythm, i need some structure throughout and continuity through all the shots.
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2. Sense of my own personal place- the world i create in my bedroom
3. My initial intention was to focus in on certain parts of my personal space that revealed different aspects of myself. In this video i am specifically focusing on an environment where one feels completely comfortable, where there are no pressures to put yourself in any particular "place", other than your own. A place where you know where everything goes and you are in control of where it belongs.
I am concentrating on one's personal living space or bedroom. The way that people keep their environment reflects on who they are.
4.i wanted to expose my tendencies to be a slightly neurotic and indecisive dreamer. I waned to try to add relatable aspects, like getting dressed and collected items to connect with the audience. The things i have are not entirely for me, but partially for the public, for guests when they visit my room to elicit another idea of who i am, by the things i own.
5. Set in a sort of "fly on the wall" perspective, I open the film with my accordion playing because it is an important part of who i am, and it is a sound one may hear through the door before entering my room, so it was a very realistic element to draw the viewer into my environment. Then a series of shots of myself, intentionally unidentified, doing other habitual things. My hand lights an incense and slipping my feet into sandals. i find myself going back to certain things, playing accordion, then going to my closet trying to decide on clothing to wear, looking up at my walls. There are empty envelopes pasted on the wall, i start to look at certain ones, because they remind me of people and places. Being a nostalgic and slightly sentimental person, that is exactly why they are hung on my wall. I glance at my encyclopedias, the maps on my wall to elicit myself day dreaming and staring off into space. Then i light incense again to try and do something productive to pull myself out of my dream world. I try listening to records, looking into my trunk full of shoes to maybe pick out a different pair of shoes. Then once i start to feel lonesome i listen to a recording of my grandfather and grandmother's voices on a cassette tape to feel some sort of comfort. I glance at my bed, so's maybe to get in it and take a nap, but i restlessly pick up the accordion instead to play a song again. Then i return to bed. The second to last shot is of the dream catcher to symbolize sleep. I close with the lit incense still burning to leave the viewer with the idea that the cycles of my normal day are never ending.
6. I discovered that there were too many ideas competing throughout the piece. The theme was not cohesive enough to really even discuss any further.
7. The strengths are that the viewer does get a sense of a person being in a place, but the shaky camera work and other technical aspects of the piece are distracting. I have a lot of different ideas to draw from, which is helpful for future work. I think it was interesting having the accordion as the main character for the piece. The shot of the shoes was interesting and mysterious because it was difficult to decipher what it was exactly.
8. The piece overall is too staged. And my shots are too long and boring. I got suggestions to use the accordion music continuously throughout the piece, and to include more mundane objects to have a different kind of balance.
9. The alligator head was kitchy but could be used in a more effective way to maybe show the misconceptions or mass produced ideas of what society or people outside of the Louisiana culture think "Creole" is. It was tough maneuvering the laptop camera to shoot things in front of me. I need to distill this film and widdle it down, create more of a focus. i need to pay attention to my use of sound and rhythm, i need some structure throughout and continuity through all the shots.
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