Standing in front of your peers and presenting an idea is always daunting to some extent; even more so when your idea has not been completely developed.
Graced with the presence of two industry professionals, I pitched my research idea that will be developing over the next 5 weeks of the semester. After lots of chopping and changing of ideas (Sorry Robin) I decided that I would focus on the coverage of dialogue within scenes, and particularly, how this coverage induces tension and suspense in a very intense manner.

The feedback I was given was extremely helpful – my idea seemed to be well received particularly when I pitched the concept of using scripts from other movies/plays and re-interpreting them through different coverage in order to induce different sentiments and moods.
I intend to experiment with not only dialogue and coverage, but also with sound and editing. I will explore the effect that music and dialogue have within a scene and explore whether intensity can be brought to a scene without the help of non-diagetic sound i.e. music.

My idea to explore dialogue stemmed from the exercise we did in class last week; I had chosen a monologue from a musical and gave it a completely different context, filmed it with different coverage, and ultimately, gave the monologue a different tone. My intention was not to bastardise the monologue or express distaste with the original context, but rather to test whether something such as coverage and pacing could completely alter the atmosphere of a scene without changing any of the dialogue – and I believe I was successful.

Executing this idea will not be simple, and I am aware of that. I intend on starting small – perhaps recording myself and my voice at the beginning in order to establish a starting point from which the idea can develop into something more creative and aesthetically pleasing without losing sight of the original concept. I intend to create something high quality, and not to treat this as another mere exercise.