Film and Space project - brief 05 (development)

shot of final flat 2, looking distorted and out of place ( using projector and made image)

Follow on detail on the story-board drawings (more to follow)

Test shots and sketch drawing for stage set up last scene flat 2.

Figuring out sequence of events throughout the Film-

Scene 1 - Flat 1 – * Grabbing of cape from the wall (note – tutors said to take out phone in the filming part of this scene- photo shop)

* Walking down the spiralling stairs (change of shot views and angles, linking together to create disrupted imagery)

* Exiting the residence with the end shot from above.

Link between scene 1 and 2 – Looking at linking scenes with either shots of buses or undergrounds to represent the idea that little red riding hood has changed locations.

Scene 2 – Piccadilly - * Walking down Burlington Arcade (disappearing from view)

* Using the reflection from the bubble instillation at the royal academy of art. (We cannot directly show the installation so we will come up with a way to film the reflection without directly giving away on the film what the mirrored objects are.)

* Trafalgar Square, again we cannot directly use the exhibition of the roots but we can use the twisted forms of the roots but filming up close and abstracting what the objects as a whole are.

Linking between scene 2 and 3 here we are beginning to show the confusion between the wood and the city interlinking shots and blurring images together. This will aid in representing little red riding hoods distortion of reality.

Scene 3 – Wood - * shots and filming sequence of mixing between distorted images of the wood and little red riding hood.

* Use of point of view from both little red riding hood and the wolf (creating the impression that the viewer is part of the film allowing them to look from both angles)

* The ending of the wood scene beginning to blend with the following wood scene with the use of interlinking images of the city and wood. Merging together images to disfigure the faces of passers by in the city adding to the dilution that little red riding hood is experiencing.

Link between scene 3 and 4 occurs during scene 3. Images blend together and the transition between the two scenes occurs.

Scene 4 – City - * Shadow themes

* Using different angles

* Shooting from the top of building and filming while following little red riding hood. Using both from the wolf and red riding hoods point of view.

* Showing her progress through the streets, manipulating footage we have taken, of people’s faces and of the bodies.

While working through the film we looked at various movies and clips to get inspiration for types of filming and ideas on what to film. Films that we have looked at are “Nostalgia” and “don’t look now” as well as kids films like “Mary poppins” and “bed knobs and broom sticks”. We also looked at films on you tube such as

- "confessions of a agoraphobic (flaneur" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_eq_X_xG6I)

- "lulu lives here"

As well as films we looked at music and music videos such as

- high contrast “ Days go by” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OVOG108yQY)

-massive attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftOy8kz7aE)

both use dramatic and unusual ideas for their videos.

For the final scene ideas for filming –

- Having the projector turning twisting the room out of context.

- Little red riding hood turning and climbing with the room.

- Twisted vision.

- Figures behind the fabric on the walls and on the floor.

- Ceiling falling down.

Notes from 27/11/09 – Talk with Tutors

We will take notes on what has been said in this discussion as use it to redevelop areas of the film. The comments from the tutors were both positive and negative; the negative were constructive comments that we can review and see where we have gone wrong, these will be taken in to account throughout the next week when we are editing our work.

Comments from the Group

- After just exiting the flat add in footage shot down by waterloo of the waters edge and walking through the crowd.

- Trees / Wood add in slots of the city (overlap/ and over lay shots)

- When Little Red Riding hood exits Burlington Arcade cut shorter the end part of the shot we do not need to watch her walking down the street.

- Shorten the bridge scene shot in waterloo, as well as this lengthen the time when the bridge shot merges with the street pavements. Changing the degradation of colours to allow them to switch with a smoother transaction.

- Watch “Don’t Look Now” and reference in research.

Tutors Comments

- Have voices coming from nowhere working with the scene or with the music, use these to create and initiate an emotion. This adds a layer of uncertainty.

- NO TEXT, however with voice can be used but must be edited with care so as not to make it stick out with a sore thumb.

- Some scenes last way too long, change to see what brief and blunt shots would look like instead.

- Shots of character in some parts are too long; we know at the beginning that she is human. However fleeting glimpses of her would create this illusion that she was no human but was an animal or minster.

- Trying just to get the cape in the shots.

- Take out the shots of the metro not needed. Instead snap shot of her entering the train station, the one of the getting on the escalator, then the footage of her going down the escalator. However cut short the end of the escalator footage till just after she appears. Then jump straight to the footage of her getting on the train. Short and sweet!!

- Reduce the amount of effects used; this will create continuity, understanding, and relation throughout the movie. Understanding the function of the effects used allows for the movie to flow.

- NO pop and NO jazz, no music that is noticeable to the viewer, best thing to do is to make our own music and make it suit the film adding understanding,

- Maybe listen to the “Don’t Look Now” sounds track, the music used is obscure and fits the action-taking place. Also look at the sound track for “Stalker”.

- Reduce the amount of wobbly footage. However the use of some is good as creates an uneasy feeling.

- Use sounds that make the viewer feel uneasy such as screeches, loud piercing sounds, loud busy noisy places etc.

- Try to link scene more coherently such as the woods scene and the use of Trafalgar square, the mirror bubbles and the convex tube mirror. Maybe look at making this some form of disjointed imagery.

- Reflection of cape linking with city scenes, not having the mirror bubbles right before the convex mirror shots.

- For the end of the film, Little Red Riding hood could be consumed by what she views as reality; which is not reality in fact. The sheets surrounding her could engulf her, these might symbolise her imagination and her thought pattern.

LOOK AT AS A GOUP FILM CALLED THE RED SHOES….

Music video for red shoes by Kate bush

Look at the Red Shoes story by the Brothers Grimm.

Film and Space project - brief 05

Film and Space project - brief 05

Began by playing with the idea of a storyboard based on film and space, as a group we came up with an idea based on the way in which different people view and perceive a space. The way in which the way in which aperson deceives a space can be altered by fact

ors around them or by their own changes for example schizophrenia. A schizophrenic sees a place in a distorted view -

Definition

Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder (or a group of disorders) marked by severely impaired thin

king, emotions, and behaviors. Schizophrenic patients are typically unable to filter sensory stimuli and may have enhan

ced perceptions of sounds, colors, and other features of their environment. Most schizophrenics, if untreated, gradually withdraw from interactions with other people, and lose their ability to take care of personal needs and grooming.

From this we have developed our ideas further; we found that we needed a story to base our ideas around. The story had to be well known for reasons such as the ability to understand what was going on without having to narrate. Also we could distort the original story and the viewer would still understand the basis of what we were aiming to create and show. We chose as a group to use little red riding hood; but to manipulate the story to our needs we rewrote the script however we still kept the story pattern of the little girl, going to her grandmar and the big bad wolf.

These are examples of the storyboard for the red riding script.

19^th November

Yesterday we were checking out locations for filming little red riding hood in the woods. We chose Hampstead heath in the end as it will allows us when filming to get a variety of different shots and affects; due to the changing in height and density of the trees and because of the contour of the land it gave us lots of directions to shoot from. For the filming we will use both moving image and still shots merging them together to form disjointed imagery. This use of disjointed imagery represents the way in which little red riding hood; who is characterized as being schizophrenic, would view her surroundings.

Today we used our city location in Green Park to film little red riding hood in a more industrial built up environment. We took again still and moving images , however we will manipulate these images to better represent how little red riding hood is feeling and what she may be seeing. This allows us to show a different representation of the city and the way in which the space has changed through the eyes of one individual.

Here are examples of some of the shots and angles for the city location.

22nd November

On Friday we spoke as a group with the tutors about what we had done so far with the project. We presented our proposal of basing our 20-minute film clip around the story of little red riding hood. When we presented the film clip of the woods; which we had previously been working on, the comments were constructive stating that the work was good and that we should push ourselves to do better.

We got on to the topic of the story line and weather we could divert further away from the original story eg. When we showed the clip of the forest of little red riding hood being followed through the wood by the wolf, the tutors were impressed with the quality of the work. However the discussion came around to the fact that it was too similar to the original story and maybe we could come up with a more original idea. Challenging what we had already done in to a more twisted idea of what little red riding hood was seeing. How we could show what she and the wolf were feeling at the same time.

Other topics we discussed were the projections of little red riding hoods second flat on to sheets, which are twisted out of shape with the used of cardboard structure.

The shapes created on the cardboard will distort the projected image, creating a disturbed image of a room. The use of the projector and white sheets means we can shift between different rooms without having to use actual furniture, the cardboard can represent the form and position of furniture within the room.

While watching film footage taken by other groups we came across the idea of interrupting the footage with finger blocking the view of some of the screen, or hair blowing across it. This we thought would make the audience feel that they themselves were the wolf and that they were the ones watching little red riding hood on the journey. This might have an interesting affect making the view feel uncomfortable and uneasy about what they felt they were doing.

Other ideas that were discussed were crumbling trees and the idea of entrapment.

Over the weekend we were given “Space and Imagery in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalgia: Notes on a Phenomenology of Architecture” to read. Thrilling as this piece of reading was (not) it was however interesting in some points. Points on which we could take away to include in the development of our film would be changes in intensity of action increasing tension within the film, Ideas of diffusing figures and spaces as well as playing with the tone of colour and tonal value. This would enable us to “abstract the images and weaken the illusion of reality.”

So throughout next week we will further develop the ideas and base of our film and experiment with new methods of filming.