In week 3 Paul had us undertake an exercise where we would brainstorm some ideas and write them down into a list. One list for actions, one list for places, one list for people and then a final list for ideas we want to explore for our pitch in week 7. Being a Thursday morning I was quite tired and the whole idea of writing some creative ideas for actions, places and people was hard. Luckily the night before I was doing a reading for my cinema studies class and was really intrigued about what I read that i wanted to experiment with for my pitch in week 7 and that was the only thing that stuck in my mind.

Action Lists

Real Life	Cinema	Imagined
-Getting on and off trams/trains	-Shooting guns	-Flying
-Getting out of bed	-Driving cars	-Floating
-Walking	-Flying spaceships	-Falling
-Making breakfast/lunch/dinner	-Fighting 20 guys
-Talking on the phone
-Riding a bike
-Training at the gym
-Fighting
-Swimming

 

People list	Location list
-Chris B.	-Jungle/Forrest
-Peter F.	-Mountains/snow
-Gareth	-Ruins/old buildings
-Tom Q.	-Beach
-Sam R.	-City/Country
-Tim J.	-Restaurants
– Elizabeth W.	-The gym

 

So what is the purpose of all these lists you may ask, well at the time i asked myself the same question but upon reflection i understood that these fast thinking ideas are used to help us spark up something imaginative. I could easily look back on these lists and come up with a great narrative. I think that we can also look back on these simple lists and apply them to our final pitch in week 7. I dont want to trap myself into coming up with some great narrative for my final assessment task i want to just create some amazing shots.

Experiments and ideas for pitch in week 7

-Frontality

-Depth, volume

-Foreground, Mid ground, Back ground.

-Guiding the Audiences eye.

-Short shots with colour.

-Tricking the audience to assuming what will happen.

 

What i plan to do it undertake some varying experiments that incorporate  these ideas, I have recently watched a T.V series called american Gothic that uses some unconventional shot construction that i will explore in my experiments. I also have always enjoyed this music video by the artist Toro Y Moi that has an interesting shot that incorporates fast movement.

Toro Y Moi – So Many Details  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0_ardwzTrA

 

American Gothic – Sourced from YouTube clip  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7qmrLanLeU

I hope after a few experiments a constructive idea for my final pitch will surface. So many more experiments and examples to come in the following posts but until then this is Lance signing off.