When I got wind of this assignment, quite uncharacteristically I instantly had an idea. I imagined the final piece being a sort of mixture or at least being influenced by this:
And this, which Thump on YouTube describes as “like a Wes Anderson Movie on techno and acid.” Pretty spot on?
I created a small mock project to try out some ideas, and it was looking like it had potential. After a few days though, I was struggling to think of ways that these quick cuts would represent my personality. I found myself just waiting for inspiration to strike, and it wasn’t a pro-active approach to the assessment. I was stuck in the mindset of making something cool rather than meaningful. Back to the drawing board…
All this editing talk coupled with the inspiration courtesy of Ross McElwee’s ‘Time Indefinite‘, I have decided to film/photograph everything and anything to build up an archive to work from. ‘Blood In The Gutter’, although focused on comics, definitely applies to film. Going from panel to panel is the same as going from shot to shot in a filmed production. I like the openness for interpretation in comics. I haven’t read many, but this reading opened my eyes to art of story-telling and difference in western and eastern traditions. Now I plan on transferring this interpretation concept to my project brief. Editing to ensue…
I’m still pretty keen to make something that binds the music videos above, but maybe for a later project.
– Gabriel