This week I continued to develop my ideas regarding my assessment 2 project. I found the class discussion on colour grading especially inspiring in my decision-making.

I noticed in my last assessment I didn’t really consider the impact of colour in mise-en-scene, or even the effects of colour grading too deeply. I’m not sure if I’ll have the resources to adequately express what I want to in my film, but I’d at least like to think about it more this time around and play.

In reference to my ‘lonely coffee break’ idea from last week’s post, I was looking into art for inspiration. I consider myself far more of an artist than a filmmaker (I predominantly partook in this degree to learn about different art forms as they pertain to a modern media landscape, rather than a passion for filmmaking) so I really appreciated the video Cat showed us in class encouraging us to use art as inspiration. Below are some possible inspirational pieces I’m considering replicating or taking visual inspiration from within my film.

At night, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1912, 95×87 cm

Female Artist, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

I also found upon studying the work of other cinematographers that I vastly prefer style over naturalism. I feel the whimsy of a Wes Anderson film is far more effective in emotive storytelling than an obsession with naturalism. This also comes back to my identity as an artist first, filmmaker second; film is an art form, and a method of storytelling, why waste the dullness of reality on an infinitely explorable medium?