I thought of this script idea, that was equal parts simple as it was ambiguous
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Idea Development Part 2
I think back now to a karaoke video that I edited after starting off my year ending up at a lake in the Gunma/Saitama prefecture, filming ducks and swans and feeling that the ambiance of the shots was in line with a “karaoke video” so I made one using the footage. But this is an idea that maybe had more than zero thought, with more than zero preplanning or consideration really.
But also I started thinking about Andrew Thomas Huang’s work, beginning from this FKA Twigs video that just got released called Cellophane, which seems like afairly big budget extravagant execution of a idea that maybe has a foundational grounding on something that is relatively simple. FKA Twigs engages in a poledancing routine as the lyricism and overall feeling of the choreography concerns perhaps a failed relationship, then in the video, FKA Twigs is just perpetually falling. I started trying to look into Andrew Thomas Huangs other work and came across some ridiculous stuff
This film that is soon to come out and his other work seems to highlight such bright colours with, like darkness and it highlights it so much more? As a group we’re going to try to build on scenes that are of a particular style too. They are of a “hip hop’ style, but the structure of the idea involves a car scene, and a flash back desire. In my head I picture this as something that is inherently existential… I wonder what the others think
Idea Development Part 1
I keep on gathering ideas and thoughts of what I like to see when I’m watching a film or a piece of media I guess, but I’ve been thinking the most lately about marvels in music video, whether it be homage, or just absolutely spectacular…
Some work I think I’ve really enjoyed is my friend Eva Lazzaro’s recent video work (I feature once), but it is by-and-large a fine tuned effective application of a simple idea. These small simple ideas I feel hold all the gold at the end of the rainbow. In this Skydeck video it is quite silly but the lyrics we were instructed to read were just the incorrect ones, meaning that everyone is just a little bit off, then we have a Good Morning video that is just an homage to the Arctic Monkeys Cornerstone video
I think that basically something I’d like to be thinking about more is how I like to drench myself in simple ideas, these are both videos that involve not getting bogged down in the thick of it all – though I guess the boundary that lies here is difficult as the small things stuff is confined in a bigger context of film, and not shorter sequences? That said I’m still trying to make it a bit more simple though.
i’m tired, what do i do
Being tasked to write a blogpost for a scene concept admittedly has at this point in time left me a little lost. I should have considered it earlier but I was on radio last night from 2am to 6am and am now making a concerted attempted to meet this deadline although I am at work with quite little energy in the tank.
As I’m writing this though, I’ve started to think about a scene concept that confronts or concerns the state of mind that I’m in. The other day I watched this film called High Life with rRobert Pattinson and in the opening scene RP is comforting a baby, and the sound design really communicates like a reaction similar to an ASMR reaction, and other things to note aboout this film is that the entire set design is a full scale version of “cheating it” in the way we do in this studio, as the setting of the film is a spaceship, and of course Claire Denis didn’t have one, but rather created a spaceship through different filming locations
That latter point was mostly an aside though, the former point in regards to the use of relaxing ASMR in sound design to further communicate scenes that induce or facilitate tiredness is something I have been thinking about now. That is, shots or scenes that facilitate tiredness, trying to work out what can cause this and what facets are worth considering to facilitate this. Instantly I can think of a few points
- slow temporality
- ambient/amsr sound design
- the tone of voice of actors, very considered, calm, collected
- colour grading, maybe more dimly lit?
Another show that really does induce a similar situation is the Netflix television show Samurai Gourmet, as it very much induces or breeds into ones tiredness.
When I think about what it is about these shows that is causing this I think there is sound that is extremely ambient, and in Samurai Gourmet there is a distinctly relaxing tone of voice that is so soothing, and in High Life and Samurai Gourmet the shots are very static and seamless and relaxing
What I think when I mean a scene design that is very cnducive to a tired mood, and in order for this to be the case pretty much everything has to be relaxed a bit more. Action films are not what i’m thinking about; obviously.