music video.

For the music video project I'm the director, which is awesome it's definitely what I wanted to be. My group and i have already had 2 meetings... we came up with some awesome ideas and i'm confident that this music video is going to be awesome looking. it's kind of scary that we only have 9 minutes of film to shoot with but we have put in a lot ofplanning to what we are going to use each roll for and how we are going to use it. We started out with this really abstract concept of a guy wearing a full suit and top hat reading a newspaper on the beach sitting parrallel to the ocean. A girl walks toward him wearing a tutu or some kind of strange party dress and boots, she sits down back to back with him and neither of them make contact, the guy sees something shiny in the sand and goes to dig it out and he finds its a ring attatched to a finger, surrounded by other fingers. the most interesting aspect of it all is that both remain emotionless and almost melancholic.. this little scene ends with the guy standing up and feeding the fingers to the birds, we are hoping that buy using bread or something we can get an awesome shot of birds hovering the two of them eating the fingers (bread).

That was the core of our idea, then we wanted to come up with other shots that form a montage like effect of this guy and girl in other parts of their world. we came up with the girl smashing items like a mirror and glass vases in the woods with a baseball bat, and the guy opening a door thats taken out of a door frame in the woods, in an alley, and on a beach, so he's basically just carrying around the door. we have other oddshots that we think will look cool like some stop animation of the girl crying pennies, or of the guy dancing alone in the alley, juxtaposed with shots of the guy AND the girl's feet dancing, giving the feel that she's there dancing with him when she's really not.

I'm really excited to shoot this, which i think we are going to start and finish this weekend, and i'm even more excited to see how it all looks when we get the film back. I'm even more thankful that I have such an awesome group with great ideas and dedication..

My self protrait..

For my self portrait i have a lot of pretty cool ideas that i want to use.. one being a theme throughout, the color red and cats. I want both to be interspersed throughout.. i feel like both are concepts that explain me well...the color red has always been my favorite color and i still appreciate its warmth and beauty so much.. i fell in love with brakhage's cat's cradle because of its red imagery..i just felt warm watching it...and i love cats in general... so im sure ill be using a lot of red filters on images and i'm going to film my cat a lot throughout his daily routine..

another idea i had was that i have a box of love letters throughout my life from different boyfriends and admirers.. i think they're funny.. and landmark a lot of my love life..i think im going to get different shots of each letter and record different male voices reading them..i kind of got the idea from the film we watched the other day.. 'talk to me'? i think it was called...

Also....last year i took all of my home videos and transferred them to video files so that i could edit them into a film for my family for christmas.. so i still have all those files of me and my sisters when we were kids.. so im definitely going to put some of that... when i was editing the film i found tiny brief moments in the footage that just really made me melt.. those are probably going to be the parts that i use

i know in class you said you didn't want a lot of voiceovers, but i think im going to use fragmented parts of some of my writing from past experiences that correlate with what is shown.. it won't run together though.. and i'll try to make it all brief so that the voiceovers don't overpower the whole film. ..

i do plan on using a LITTLE music.. just because that's a huge factor in my life.. my best friend and roommate produces music and djs a lot of what we do revolves around music and all different kinds.. i want to incorporate him in the film so some of his original music might be shown over his shots...

for my opening shot i invision myself holding my handheld minidv camera pointed at the mirror where i want to write my name across is with marker.. i think that would look neat and really set the tone..

im sure along the way of making this film i will come up with many more ideas.. but i also think what i've come up with so far is going to make for some good shit!