this weekend completed all my shooting...might do some additional shots later if needed, or inspired
sound issue? filmed sound won't work completely. need to solve..go out and get sound?
today will attempt to transfer shots from tape to hardrive so i can work while out of town this week.

random brain spilling

bubble gum pop connective thread ...things that give/renew, things that take away....change of states, pop

return of animation:gray garden...dark matter: consumption...the bubble pop:bus change/release....bound by time: grandfather clock man....walking disappearing peoplle

piece is an infinite loop, evidenced by ending, bus comes back at end but not on it, outside of it ...inside and out of it...our existence is on a bus, and we're trying to get out of it, watching our old selves come by (all characters originally on it)

black paint
gum
tarp
gray paint
art building? hose down
bus --> know times

Actors:

bus: ---
dark matter: becky/rocco
grandfather clock: dad, male actor (mike...mark (umbrella man))
statues: reanimation girl....julia/alexis/other male/clcok man...possible other male
walking:where? julia/alexis/random others? lisa chase

transition --> sillborn baby look from g-pa clock to still garden
bus --> foreign finger popping, the forces you never know when where who how they will strike
stain on g-pa's shirt trans from black paint



on the bus...dark matter...clock man....stillborn garden...walking to road

Alright....tonight's gonna be a long night but i've changed by idea. after really getting into the project some adjustments were needed. all i'll say for now is that my projects kind of about reverse birth.

aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

yea....i definitely learned something. i learned that my idea isn't working at all, it's coming out reaaaalllllyyyy cheesy. so...uh, i'm in the process of trying to save myself.

Sentiments

Here are some of the emotions I want to play with in this film:

"One by one I watch them leave my side, leave the darkness, leave this misery that wraps me round and round and under. I watch them fly. To be great, to know greatness, one has to have visited the deepest pools of sorrow. Why am I still here? Why am I still here?"

"Maybe aviation has become a fruitless dream. "

"They mistake my strength, and slap my hands harder. But what they don’t realize is I’m not who I used to be. I am Icarus, fallen from high sky. Burnt by a sun. I sleep in an ocean so slow and cold that even I cannot wake from this slumber, no matter how hard they shake me. I was broken by the time I arrived. I can't."

Official Idea

Sorry for not posting sooner! We just now got Internet in our hotel rooms!

OK, so the final idea I'm going with is a very intimate look at someone desperately trying to hold on and pull him/herself up. This is going to be demonstrated literally, in that I'm going to have a person hanging off a ledge, trying to pull him/herself up. There are going to be others hanging off as well. Somehow, they manage to succeed, they reach their goal, they pull themselves up, they leave the threat of the abyss. But the character of focus, no matter how hard they try, no matter what they do to attempt to control the forces around them, they cannot pull up. My film will focus on the emotional hardship, the breaking of strength, and what happens when strength/hope/happiness runs out....an imminent fall? The juxtaposing element will be a kind of smiling face constantly facing the protagonist, almost mocking, almost benevolent, almost sadistic, maybe angelic that constantly taunts the person hanging. It is the constant view from up above, from where the "hanger" wants to be, the hand that is seemingly being offered in aid, something that has control...but that can't be grasped either. It is something to taunt you to insanity and magnifies the utter failure in the inability to pull upwards.

This will be shot in the dark. Use of lights will help visibility. Still considering various optical effects. Storyboards in formation. (Would post them but in lack of a scanner...bah) Have actors and film date set.

Start up

Hey guys!

OK, so this is the start of my blog...

ASSIGNMENT ONE:

My brain's been kind of dead recently, but here's a meddely of things that have been swirling around up there:

Peephole/keyhole --> shooting through that
A light source above a fan...light getting sprayed around
Mirror on the floor - somebody walks across it, record that
idea 1: maps of light ...man's illumination, loss of knowledge, lightness and darkness, evolution, following maps of light, navigating by light, constellations, shadows...

idea 2: city of shadows (wrote a poem about that)......................how the hell am i gonna do that?

idea 3: allegory of life...people in a room, the clock = the light of the sun moving across the floor (shining thru a window), as the day sets life closes, day closes, possibilities close, human emotions, shadow cast faces, interacting all with a chair, solo, barren feel......CLICHE?????

idea 4: randomness...trying to figure out how to pull this one together: trapt by light, lights changing the dynamics of the environment : dude walking down the street at night, (using car headlights) strong beams of light shine, more shine, enclosing him, they have a "weight" and "force", can push and pull him...new scene: bowl of white paint, bowl of black paint..character dips head in black paint, everything goes to black, absence of light...dude dips his head in white paint...everything goes to white....how do i eliminate a shadow? bah

i'm a little worried. i can't really seem to settle on something i'm happy with. so far, i think the trapped by light (headlights of a car, me-he 0_0) is my number one. prrreeesssuuure. gah

jill