This week we have started working on Film project 1.

This is also my first time doing a proper film project, so I am actually feeling a little lost in the beginning. For this project I teamed up with Samantha and Kay, because we all prefer making artistic and abstract film. However this film will be longer than the ones we used to make, we decided to add in a little narrative so the film will make more sense to audience even without us explaining the story behind it.

Samantha came up with the idea of the story. A girl indirectly caused the death of her boyfriend and it gave a big impact to her mind, the line between reality and dream started to become blurry for her. I like the story, and my style can fit in very perfectly into this project. After a few discussions, we finished the job distribution. Samantha will be the main director and photographer since she came up with the story, I will be assisting her on the technical aspects and also I am responsible for the abstraction of the movie, Kay will be doing post production.

To make sure we are prepared for the shooting, we started looking for inspiration that can help us in composition, color and order of scenes. We looked at “Lost Highway”, “In The mood for Love” “Playtime” and also a short film called “Wake”. “Lost Highway” really helped me develop ideas of abstraction, the lighting, close-up scenes, cold colors and illusions are very suitable for our project.

On the other hand “In The Mood For Love” inspired us on the scenes of sweet memories and dreams. The red color, and ambiguous vibe is very interesting.

“Playtime” is also on the abstract side, the film itself is also a little complicated and hard to fully understand, but it is the cold color throughout the film that really caught my attention. Because we are making a sad film, we need everything we can get to show a depressing feeling, so we decided to use less color like “Playtime” and try to give our audience a cold feeling throughout the film.

The short video “Wake” is our inspiration for the car crash scene. Because this video is also about someone lost his wife because of a car accident, there are a lot of elements in there that we can learn from. For example, the scene when the car comes right at the viewer’s direction, it gives a little tense to the audience and also clearer showed them there was an car accident although there is no scene showing a broken car or two car crashing.

So far we have planned out most things for our film project 1, everything looks smooth and nice, ready to start shooting.