Major Project Unit: Idea Development

The start of a brand new unit, collaborating with Lauren Howard, to combine our skills and ultimately create something we'd both be proud of to include in our portfolios in the future. We began our first meeting brainstorming ideas, and realising what our individual strengths are to define our roles on the project. The requirements of this unit is to collaborate and create a 15-minute production which will be viewable online via a specially created website. Here are the notes from our first meet. 

Experimental Drama (3 x 5 minute episodes)

Style:

-art-house

-stylish, expressive

-time-lapse (Rose)

-little or no dialogue

-choreography

-dropping out-of-focus intentionally 

-characters breaking the forth wall

-use of metaphors

-reversing footage and changing speed

-subtle changes of colour and light intensity, perhaps verging into black and white

-layering footage

-overhead shots

-jump cuts

-macro

Themes:

-drug abuse

-relationship (represented by the Rose - frailty, beauty, delicate)

-behaviour

-never-ending cycle

-paranoia

-beauty

-confusion

-anger

-frustration

-love

-passion

-losing control

-highs

-withdrawal

-realism

-violence

-loneliness

Story:

-couple, male and female late 20s, early 30s

-empty room, pool? park?

-3 stages - changes, heaven, earth/limbo, hell

Inspiration:

-'Candy'

-'Sigur Ros' Fjor Piano

-'City of God'

-CH4 MDMA Documentary with Keith Allen

-'Waking Life'

-'The Machinist'

-'True Blood'

Music:

-atmospheric 

-ambient

-experimental

-drone - bug/siren

-repetitive

-low hums

-old TV static

-glockenspiel

-piano

-underwater voices

Ideas:

-use of a Rose - thorns

-eyes dilating

-skin/vein twitching

-breathing 

-train tracks

-tattooed or scarring 

-a moment of pitch black with sound panning left and right

-characters film each other 

-underwater filming

-nose bleeds 

-mirrors

-montage?

-rain (glitter? shower?)

-smog machine

-v/o -thoughts, overlaps, dream-like

-painted walls

-scrubbing

-poppys - symbol for herion

-gangrene - arms, painted 

Title Ideas (translated):

-oblivion (Italian - Oblio)

-descent

-cycle (German - Schleife)

-seasons

-neverending (spanish - interminable)

-poppy