Project brief 4 Work in progress:
As a result of my academic progress throughout the semester I have chosen to collaborate a cluster of ideas I have been sitting on for the past few months. In this project we are asked to use only old media or a mixture of old and new media. I have chosen the latter as I believe its important to contribute to both ideas as old media is dying out, why not use it in areas that we can no longer with newer technology and ideologies?
Overall I am hoping to produce a music video based around old aesthetics, music, technology and new technology. Yesterday I had an appointment with the owner of North Melbourne’s Lithuanian club to view the interior and architecture of the space I could potentially work in for my music video. This was a huge success as I underlined I was a student filming a low impact film clip, he agreed to let me film there next Wednesday morning, empathizing with me as he is a previous student of RMIT and wavered any fees. The architecture and interior design at this establishment was old and a little medieval looking and reflects Lithuania well, also contributing to the aesthetic of the old feel I am looking to create in my film clip. I have also hired a camera, lighting and dolly tracks from RMIT and have ask Nicholas (Max) Paton to assist me in the production of this video.
I am producing music with my former project 3 interviewee Louis Quinn as we both bonded over the process of creating music with a mixture of old and new technology. We will be creating music on an electric guitar, hoping to create a spooky and surreal sound to match what I am hoping to produce physically and creatively that till mesh well with what my audience will be viewing with their eyes.
I now need to produce a short script which I am hoping to create on a typewriter. As I’ve only ever used script software for all my productions it will be interesting to challenge myself by using a typewriter and seeing how my thought process changes when typing on a completely different device with no other distractions besides the object I am using in front of me.
Now thinking more deeply about my music video I will possibly have some actors involved, but mainly want to focus on old aesthetics during the filming process. For example, I am hoping to place emphasis on an old Fender guitar and the small intricate details that make up the guitar itself. I am also going to re wire an old television so that static moves on the screen with the music, adding to the old aesthetic feel, and the mixture of old with new.
During the editing of this video I am hoping to have a lot of long shots with not much cutting, and possibly adding filters or even black and white to attribute to the old feel I am looking to re create. Overall this project is still young and a large work in process that I need to put some deep thinking into.