Director.
I will be pitching in tomorrows class an idea for a physical theatre film piece. I want to use theatre as a stem for the film. I want to ahve aroud 10-12 actors working within a certain idea, for example relationships. They will create montages, freezeframes, soundscapes all around the ideas of relationships. We will create an abstract piece of theatre both live and on screen.
I would like to use the physicalisation of what a relationship means, movements in unison, words, conflicts, both physically and emotionally and then relay that onto the screen.
I would like to use both rehearsed movement and 'acting' wihtin the film but to animate that movement in order for them not too look like people but just lines and shapes on the screen, using images and shapes to create the idea of relationships.
I would like to use people wihtin the audience or perhaps just within the surrounding area so that the piece may begin wiht just two people on stage facing the audience wiht just two red lines on the screen. Automatically an audience would create the idea of a relationship both on and off screen. We will then continue to use this idea of shapes with people and 'drawing' this will should de-humanise the people to be subjects.
When i watch experimental film using fingerpainting and shape symbolism, im always searching for a human connection, not a narrative but just something that i can empathise with, and id like to give the audience those shapes and a feeling of realness.
I would try to stay away from what you would assume is acting, and try to show the actors as just people moving through the space. possible using styalised movements, unison, repetition, retrograde, creating a piece of theatre on the floor that is represented on screen!
It sounds kind of a dramatic idea, but im certain it could come off well, maybe even using some objects of concentration for example a rose, chocolates, babys, blankets, you know just for fun!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
DIY Cinema!!
"Craved a new cinematic experience"... good qoute but isnt that what we do everytime we go to a cinema? we go there so that we can find something new? well i do... haha but anyways more to the point.. how did i now know that this existed... WE NEED ONE here.... when ca we start it? how do we get the films? Im thinking we just use a class in Kenan every monday or sunday or something and we dont charge, people can bring cookies and coffee and we can watch a film we wouldnt usually see.. I want to do it!
But yer she talks about alot of interesting stuff, the whole definition of Art Cinema is always going to be a little ropey and other than the quote i didnt really see where she waws going with her definition but i guess the point is what micro-cinema is, which is no budget, no markeing and no big stars, which works for me... thats us, we could show our own films. Its what films are made for, to show them to an audience so what better than in an enviroment where afterwards you can stand around and debate what it is that you loved or hated about a film, rather than just walking out with nothing more to say.
I think its a great idea, and if anyone wants to join me in trying to get it started please let me know.
But yer she talks about alot of interesting stuff, the whole definition of Art Cinema is always going to be a little ropey and other than the quote i didnt really see where she waws going with her definition but i guess the point is what micro-cinema is, which is no budget, no markeing and no big stars, which works for me... thats us, we could show our own films. Its what films are made for, to show them to an audience so what better than in an enviroment where afterwards you can stand around and debate what it is that you loved or hated about a film, rather than just walking out with nothing more to say.
I think its a great idea, and if anyone wants to join me in trying to get it started please let me know.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Producer...
yey.. Im excited to get started on the project we have already had quite a few production meeting and i think our ideas are pretty much on our way... really ewxcited to start to work with the band.
being a producer at the moment has been pretty hard core organisation which has been fun. Im pretty bossy and i think thats worked in my favour, tryin to get everyone organised as to where they should be and bullet pointing everything that they needed. Which i dont think they ahve minded too much.
We are really working as a team in regards to the concept, and brainstorming alot of ideas as to how the abnds style and what we want to do should work together. And as a group I think were going to be really productive, its exciting because we all have really differen taste in music and ideas that we can bring into the film and so we should come up with something interesting.
the band are really kool to so that helps!
being a producer at the moment has been pretty hard core organisation which has been fun. Im pretty bossy and i think thats worked in my favour, tryin to get everyone organised as to where they should be and bullet pointing everything that they needed. Which i dont think they ahve minded too much.
We are really working as a team in regards to the concept, and brainstorming alot of ideas as to how the abnds style and what we want to do should work together. And as a group I think were going to be really productive, its exciting because we all have really differen taste in music and ideas that we can bring into the film and so we should come up with something interesting.
the band are really kool to so that helps!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Self portrait...
So kinda daunting at first.... mostly because I kept thinking of all the different ways that i could take it, you know as you do... dramatic funny etcetcetc... but pretty much realised I wanted to show as much about my life and who i am as i could but the Bottom line is Im not really sure who I am, thats not wierd right? Oh well I just dont who I am right now you know....I guess I'm not sure i ever will, Im learning and changing and becoming different everyday because of the people i meet and what they show me!!
so I figured showing something truthful and real about Me would be pretty difficult, But then everything i had been thinking was the self protrait, the way i change my mind all the time, create interesting situations for my self, almost like a rollercoaster! And yer i do think about what poeple think of me not in like a self obssessed way (well i hope not) more in a, what does that say about me and what do i come across as. Its nice to know that people think your funny, or sweet or pretty, so my first idea was to use what my friends say about me as my soudtrack to my Film, just basic thoughts im not going to be there when it records im just going to let them say what they want and then use it later on. They will hopefully show through their thoughts who I am, and hopefully Im going to get some interesting bits of information from them, to oppose the images i will show.
So I'm a theatre major too, By the way, I do a split equal degree at home, so im pretty dramatic, an actor i guess by trade so far, as thats mostly what ive done other than directing theatre, so when looking at a film I think about it dramatically, theartrically always about what the audience thinks. so my audience is the world and the people around me. Theres a really good quote about actors that i think pretty much sums me up, "actors have a perculiar quality of incompleteness, a kind of uncertainty or Vagueness, because he is in between...when an actor is not firm in his identity, he needs support and strength, instruction and guidance,"- William Ball. I can be unsure because I havent been dealt that character to play yet, I havent found who Im supposed to be. Does this make sense?
Anyways... So im going to use my friends thoughts as my soundtrack along with myself speaking that quote.
If my friends dont say what im expecting i will be really really shocked..... they will say what a bubbly friendly outgoing girl i am who doesnt care about what people say! (by the way its funny writing this for a whole class to read, cos it would be wierd saying this to my friends who i hang out with everyday. funny!! huh!!) but I know thats what they'll say, cos thats what I make people think, 'Im so confident I can take on the world, Im happy and funny and make everybody laugh cos im 'bubbly'..." The amount of times somebody has called me bubbly in my life kills me... what the hell does bubbly mean!!
Anyways the point of this mummbling is to explain that what people shows on the outside isnt always what they feel on the inside, and without getting to dramatic about life... people see me laughing and joking about stupid things normally ripping the piss out of myself... and think hey shes so happy, but I had issues just like everybody has and people dont know the history that people have, NOBODY knows!!! B can easily be hidden from what your truly feelingand will never know whats really going on. People can put up fences and fronts and pretend everythings ok!! so thats what im going to show! that You never know whats going on in somebodys head. and just cos i was always laughing and 'got over things' it wasnt all happy-go-lucky!!
Who knows what will come out of it but thats pretty much my rough outline of ideas!
so I figured showing something truthful and real about Me would be pretty difficult, But then everything i had been thinking was the self protrait, the way i change my mind all the time, create interesting situations for my self, almost like a rollercoaster! And yer i do think about what poeple think of me not in like a self obssessed way (well i hope not) more in a, what does that say about me and what do i come across as. Its nice to know that people think your funny, or sweet or pretty, so my first idea was to use what my friends say about me as my soudtrack to my Film, just basic thoughts im not going to be there when it records im just going to let them say what they want and then use it later on. They will hopefully show through their thoughts who I am, and hopefully Im going to get some interesting bits of information from them, to oppose the images i will show.
So I'm a theatre major too, By the way, I do a split equal degree at home, so im pretty dramatic, an actor i guess by trade so far, as thats mostly what ive done other than directing theatre, so when looking at a film I think about it dramatically, theartrically always about what the audience thinks. so my audience is the world and the people around me. Theres a really good quote about actors that i think pretty much sums me up, "actors have a perculiar quality of incompleteness, a kind of uncertainty or Vagueness, because he is in between...when an actor is not firm in his identity, he needs support and strength, instruction and guidance,"- William Ball. I can be unsure because I havent been dealt that character to play yet, I havent found who Im supposed to be. Does this make sense?
Anyways... So im going to use my friends thoughts as my soundtrack along with myself speaking that quote.
If my friends dont say what im expecting i will be really really shocked..... they will say what a bubbly friendly outgoing girl i am who doesnt care about what people say! (by the way its funny writing this for a whole class to read, cos it would be wierd saying this to my friends who i hang out with everyday. funny!! huh!!) but I know thats what they'll say, cos thats what I make people think, 'Im so confident I can take on the world, Im happy and funny and make everybody laugh cos im 'bubbly'..." The amount of times somebody has called me bubbly in my life kills me... what the hell does bubbly mean!!
Anyways the point of this mummbling is to explain that what people shows on the outside isnt always what they feel on the inside, and without getting to dramatic about life... people see me laughing and joking about stupid things normally ripping the piss out of myself... and think hey shes so happy, but I had issues just like everybody has and people dont know the history that people have, NOBODY knows!!! B can easily be hidden from what your truly feelingand will never know whats really going on. People can put up fences and fronts and pretend everythings ok!! so thats what im going to show! that You never know whats going on in somebodys head. and just cos i was always laughing and 'got over things' it wasnt all happy-go-lucky!!
Who knows what will come out of it but thats pretty much my rough outline of ideas!
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