This week in class, everyone had to present their ideas on what they wanted to do further research on for their final project. I did plenty of research prior to the presentation before deciding on what I want to really commit on researching for the rest of the semester.

In the beginning, I wanted to do some studies on frame rates because I find it very interesting and there isn’t much explanation out there that really explains the theory behind why certain frame rates provoke certain emotions in a film. It’s very common that we shoot at 24 fps (frames per second) because that’s how the human eyes see things, but I was advised not to take on this topic as it may be too complex and we wouldn’t have the equipments to explore this subject.

In order to stay on track, I decided to take on the second film technique that really catches my interest, the manipulation of time and space in films. Recently I’ve been doing my own research on films, and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” by Charlie Kaufman really caught my attention. It was because the sudden change of emotions in the beginning of the film and after the credits that hooked me and got me invested in the film. The question of “what the hell is going on?” kept ringing in my head, making me hooked on to the film. And that was the idea right there, how do you hook your audiences to your story, while simultaneously telling 2 separated stories in a different timeline.

What really tickled my curiosity was the way of a non-linear storytelling that I find really intriguing as I rarely take the chance to do new form of storytelling in the fear that my film might suck. I am happy and looking forward to testing this new film technique, and hopefully it might teach me a new way of no-linear storytelling.