Over Sunday and Monday I will be filming. I have decided to limit myself to choosing two Lorde songs for now; they will be Tennis Court, 400 Lux and White Teeth Teens. This means that the ‘script’ that I’ll be working with is as follows.
Tennis Court
Don’t you think that it’s boring how people talk? // Making smart with their words again, well I’m bored // Because I’m doing this for the thrill of it, killin’ it
It’s a new art form showing people how little care (Yeah) // We’re so happy, even when we’re smilin’ out of fear
- she has a low, throaty alto that runs the gamut from wistfulness to disdain without cracking. But, still, she has this going for her: her deadpan is entirely purposeful.
- To listen to this album is to be considered, just for a moment, part of the omnipresent, inexplicably vital group of friends that Pure Heroine seems to be filled with
- I’m bored, too, I can feel how sick I am of it suffocating me now that she’s laid it down on the table.
- There iswant, here, already – wanting a million things, chasing them, wanting too much.
- Her voice, normally so low and firm, reaches to the end ofhappy, stretches for just a moment, elastic and strange. An admission, then: terror overlaid with giddy delight. It’s not that you swallow your fear; your fear lives with your joy. You grin and smiling is mostly bared teeth anyway, anyway, vicious and half-hysterical. So happy and so terrified you’re a tiny feral creature, barely a person anymore
400 Lux
We’re never done with killing time // Can I kill it with you?
We come around here all the time // Got a lot to not do, let me kill it with you
We’re hollow like the bottles, that we drain // You drape your wrists over the steering wheel // Pulses can drive from here // We might be hollow, but we’re brave
(And I like you) // I love these roads where the houses don’t change (and I like you) // Where we can talk like there’s something to say (and I like you) // I’m glad that we stopped kissing the tar on the highway (and I like you) // We move in the tree streets // I’d like it if you stayed
White Teeth Teens:
- “White Teeth Teens” is, on the surface, about cliques – really, though, it’s about all the strange things we do to get people to be with us.
- The passage of time is blurred and hazy here; things switch back and forth from present to past from one stanza to the next.
Here are some logistics for filming:
Location: My house, a friend’s house as well as various spots around Jenkins Park in Templestowe.
Actors: The scenes will follow a female protagonist in which multiple people will play, which lends itself into the idea of having various actors all playing the idea of a teenager being alone in their environments but as they will be edited side by side they will still be depicted as being part of a collective.
Crew: While I will have people helping I would like this to remain an intimate crew of three.
Sound: I will not be recording diagetic sound on the days of filming in order to minimise crew members, however the scenes will be scored with the songs which are being visualised.
Production Design: Effort will not be put into constructing a certain Production Design, however it will be thought of when filming as to help enhance the aesthetics of the film.