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.