Film Work

My Work:
The main theme of the work is 'Stories' and so I had to get to work on ideas which involved this theme. At the time, someone in my family was celebrating something and so there was a lot of congratulation things about the house. This gave me the starting point for my film work. So I decided to create a film where a man walks into each scene and destroys one of the props. Here is my drawn storyboard:

The lines at the bottom of each photo show which way the person in the film should go.

The lines show which direction the person enters the scene and which direction they leave in. The props that I will use are:

• A balloon
• A card
• A banner
• Flowers
• Champagne
• Cake

The clothes that the person will be wearing are suit type clothes.
Constants in the film will be:

• Suit
• A plain background
• No face
• Stiff body language
• Celebration music until object destroyed
• Person enters and exits in opposite direction to the last scene
• Transitions between scenes is the person walking out of and into camera shots.

When I was deciding on a song, I thought that 'celebrate good times' would be a good choice. I then thought that I could play the music when the person goes into each scene and then stop the music when the person destroyed the congratulations thing.

Here are my storyboards in photos:
 Banner Storyboard:

 Cake Storyboard:

 Card Storyboard:

 Flower Storyboard:

I had originally planned to include the person's face in the film however, when I started filming, the camera position meant that the person's head was cut off. I thought that this was a good idea becuase it doestn't show the reader the person's emotions which can give away a story behind the person's meaning for destroying the congratulations stuff.
I think that this film is good becuase there is no face and a plain background so it doesn't suggest any motives of why the person is destroying the congratulation stuff and so it leaves the viewer to come up with the reasons why the person is acting the way he is. I think there is a lot of possible reasons to why the person could be acting like this and so it is whatever the viewer wants it to be, it is their interpretation that is important.
My film does relate to the film's of John Wood and Paul Harrison becuase they both have some themes which are the same, such as the plain backgrounds and the actions of a person. The difference is that my film doesn't use geometrical shapes etc but instead has a meaning behind the story.
My idea was to have this film as a final piece, however, the quality of the video wasn't very good so I had to come up with something dramatic. Instead of trying to do the film again, I decided to use it but in a different way...

At the time I was doing a gallery board in which I would show my work for this project. Becuase of this, I had to take some photos to support the film, here they are:

These photos then gave me an idea for my final piece. I got to work on ideas that would create my final piece when I thought that I could involve these photos in it with the film. I thought that becuase the film was blurry, it looked like somebody's thoughts so I decided this as the basis of my final film.