Quick Idea Example

Just a rough idea of what I'd like to do, perhaps editting the sky to move as well but still early days and we'll see where it goes

3 Gust Concepts

Struggling to find the line between abstract and overly stylised, non-narrative garbage, but I think I may have something.
In no particular order, my ideas are as follows:

1. Whiteboard- Using a whiteboard follow the lyrics of the track, possibly including doodles decorating/following the text

2. Night/Day- Showcase city life at night photography but use a mask to change the night sky to daylight. (Perhaps include vice versa)

3. Hybrid- Showcase afforementioned stills interchanging with Whiteboard stills of final words in sentence blown up and decorated

These are just the initial ideas I have had, I am still unsure as to what track I may be using and trying to determine which one would be complemented most by either of the concepts .

More to come so watch this space.

Return to uni

Back after winter break and gonna jump in straight away with a new edit I did today, just some arbitrary shots taken around Nottingham City Centre. Had to do a little editing on them in photoshop just because i didn't like the way they came out, then with a little Premiere Pro magic made this, enjoy.

Its Friday!

This weeks theme, as I treated myself to finishing the essay with a film, will be films. Specifically the ones with extremely clever concepts. The one I happened to go and see being one of them. In Time, the new film starring Justin Timberlake, paints a picture of a world in which Time really is money, and besides a few obvious puns such as the protagonist running around with stolen time, not to mention the over use of the expression "Wasting time", Director Andrew Niccol has done a great job. Definitely recommend it to anyone looking to kill some time, yeah, I said it.

The second is a film soon to be released called The Darkest Hour, which sees earth plagued by an invisible invader that devours energy. I can't say much other than that the trailer is awesome and it has Emile Hirsch, who is also awesome. Clearly on to look out for.

That all folks!

Its That Time of The Week, Friday Favourites

So today I thought I'd go for something classy, tasteful and artistic, so this caught my attention while I was looking through the BBC films website. It's a Short Moving Image piece by Graham Young entitled Still Life With Smoke and Mirrors and, for lack of a better term, thoroughly wrinkled my brain.

The next was just a viral one, I think I lost too many brain cells trying to work out Young's piece earlier so i needed something safe, so without further ado, Click Here.

That concludes this weeks friday favourites.

Final Pitch

 Right, due to the last two weeks of failure i have devised two pitches, which i have titled "Safety Net" and "Ambition". Safety Net, the top image, will consist of an extreme close up of someone's eyes and whenever they blink you see through the eyes of a homeless person, be it digging through trash for food or a dark alleyway to sleep in.I've decided to also keep the voiceover of a homeless person's back story as that provided much of the gravitas in my previous failed pitches.

The next storyboard is not much of a storyboard as embedding images in paint is damn near impossible and my laptop refuses to run photoshop. This idea is much the same, only more ambitious, innovative, creative and every other adjective its predecessors missed. The idea, suggested by Karl, was to have the close-up on the eyes but, rather than switch scenes, embed the alley/trash/feet footage into the eyes and truly see through the eyes of a homeless person, again keeping the voiceover. This was my initial idea, however when I went about trying this I wasn't exactly sure how to go about doing it and couldn't find anywhere online suggesting a solution. This is when I developed the safety net idea, just in case this one falls through.

The New Idea

After the failure of last weeks pitch I decided to abandon the Original idea and go with my second choice and modify it slightly.

The idea was to have the advert shot at the level of a homeless person, comparing the differences. The new idea is to have a 1st person time lapse from the perspective of the homeless person, with a voiceover, if possible performed by a homeless person, if not then an actor, reading on of the stories framework have.

I've decided, based on the 151s battery life & memory capacity, to shoot this roughly 30 minutes before dusk, so as to incorporate the sunset and give the greater impression of time passing. If not I was planning on shooting at rush hour on a busy street, to get the biggest crowd as possible to show the extent to which homeless people are ignored by the vast majority.

I was  planning on shooting it one of three ways:

A- Camera tilted up to show faces

B- Camera deliberately tilted in a way that doesn't capture faces

C- Camera not at all tilted so as to film from the waist down

With A the idea is showing the faces of the people who ignore homeless people, and showing how many of them there are. Many people see homeless people as faceless urchins on the street, however they see the people who ignore them.

B is shot in a way that does not show faces, to make the crowd the faceless entity and emphasise the girth of the crowd.

I liked C as a shot as it shows the level at which the homeless are put on, as a lower being. With the camera filming mostly feet it will show the contrast between the crowd moving around their day to day lives and how a homeless person may be in one place for whole hours of the day.

I plan on talking to framework to see if one of the people they help would like to tell his story for the voiceover, and if they are unhappy recording then i will get an actor for the voiceover instead.