1 Minute Film and Presentation

I have since changed my idea for my short experimental film. I instead filmed paint dripping onto leaves instead of rain for my idea of a colourful and toxic ecosystem. I filmed it in a park not too far from where I am living in Sheffield and got a friend to assist me in the pouring of the paint. 

I also got some really beautiful still shots of the plants after they had been doused with paint. I wanted to capture beauty with my 1 minute static film and I hope I really did. The problem is that I only really got the beauty, no real substance, which I wanted to gain. 

When I went in for my tutorial, the idea of working with a power station was suggested and I found this something to really think about. Some of the experimental films I had taken inspiration from had relied heavily on other locations, but as mine is a single shot I found it much harder. I think having a man made structure in the background would be a good idea, and refilming it to be in a space that is much less noisy is also a good idea.

Some of the inspirations I had came from 'Foxes' by Lorcan Finnegan, shown here. Although technically this is a live action almost drama piece, the shots and the cinematography of the nature are the things I was focusing most on when I watched it and allowed myself to become enamoured with the piece. This has been a particularly hard exercise for me, as I haven't been entirely sure what I was wanting to show until I started to look at the effects of man on nature.

My original idea had been almost drama like, but I had realised that there was nothing that would have stopped me from making the film that I had planned in the drama module, which showed that it was the wrong thing to make for an experimental. Therefore, I started to look around at things I was passionate about and the environment is one of them.

Another film I was inspired by, but involved a lot of archive footage was 'Humans and the Nature' shown here, which I think really shows gritty and hard footage of the world with humans interference (e.g. nuclear warfare) and it really hit home for me the concerns of environmental damage that's happening because of our species. This was something that I wanted to portray in my own film, and I'm not sure I'm 100% there yet, but will mention this in my presentation.

References

Foxes (2011) Short Film. Dir. Lorcan Finnegan, Lovely Productions, Ireland.
Humans and the Nature (2011) Short Experimental. Dir. Clement. Self Produced.