For our week 7 crit panel, we had to present our film ideas that we’ll be working on for the next 6 weeks. Here is the transcript of my presentation:
Main observation: The Eb and Flow of the Anthropomorphised Object
It’s kind of sad that our phones are in a perpetual state of dying. That we are in dire need of them that much, as soon as they are about to leave this world in the most serene way, we tear them back into reality for our own selfish gain. We anthropomorphise them, we act as though they are our friends, we call them names, shame them, even hit them when they do us wrong somehow. And yet they are not ultimately human, as we wish they were. They are there to serve a purpose, there as our tools, with a battery life we choose to either prolong, or allow to eb into darkness as we no longer have a use for that phone anymore. No, we have a shiny, new phone. A new phone that is yet to know what it is like to be our electronic slave.
CONCEPT
- Exploring the way we interact with the world around us
- The delusions we create in order to feel secure and survive in our own versions of reality. How we understand our world
FORM
- The film will be around 5-6 minutes containing around 5 moments or vignettes and will follow the style of Jane Campion’s Passionless Moments, a film showing the strange, eclectic moments of suburban life, with third person voice over.
- The film should follow a more coherent and connected narrative than passionless moments, rather than just being connected by place.
- Examples of moments that could be in the film include watching birds fly in the sky and imagining what dance they must be performing; How we treat our phones; The evolution of phones to become more human (e.g. Siri), and yet the loss of the human element, as they are made solely as a tool and for our own gratifying purpose; How we treat animals; How we treat other objects and situations (the idea of order being better than chaos)
Poetic voice over will explain and satirise the moments. It will also aid in creating coherency between moments
The development process of the film will be a combination of scripting and continued observation.