Project 4 - Word

You must think up a title to your piece, based off a single word. This word can be broken down to it's basic concepts, or a personal interpretation. Routine, Discovery, Home, Nostalgia, are just a few nouns I can think of, although you can use verbs or any other form of word. Use these or other terms as departure points, try to be metaphoric in relation to them rather then literal, but do use them as a starting point for developing the conceptual aspects of the piece.

Design a short non-narrative film about that word without converting it religiously, and by using styles or motifs such as, but not limited to, patterns, and repetition, motif. You may use found footage. No groups, though.

The piece must be at least one minute long.

Audio

In this work you can use audio, but you cannot use music, any audio you use must be ambient sounds or found sounds they can be structured along with the visual components of the work and share in common aspects of the rhythm of the piece. If your found footage has music, then it must be edited and changed enough to make it your own and to suit the piece.


What do I turn in? two part assignment

Writing Assignment due Wednesday the 22nd of October.

Write a 100 word (or plus) statement about what word you have choosen and what it means to you. Be as visually and emotionally as descriptive as possible, as these ideas can be translatted visually into the work.

Remember that this is a non narrative assignment, so you can't not have a linear plot. No scenes where something happens that directly lead to another. You are going to have to rely more on strong visuals and pacing than dialogue that tells you what is happening.

Create list of what scenes and or visual elements you think would best visually show your concept (tell the “story,” although I am feign to use the word story as I don’t want you to end up with a traditional narrative).

Develop a shot list that is extensive and will allow you to get more then you might actually need.

Video Assignment due Friday October 31.

You will turn in a DVD copy of the movie as well as a web based version posted on the class website.

Items to consider

determine how you can break it up into pieces that can still visually deliver the concept and the narrative yet do so through a rhythmic patterning of the elements of time; forward and reverse, fast and slow frame rate, time-lapse, freeze frame and stutter step and so forth.

Restructure the work to have a poetic phrasing: word, line and stanza

Try to set the work up so visually it feels like we are seeing groupings of poetic lines that have a rhyming pattern set into stanzas

create a montage of separate elements that come together as a whole

think of the kind of message that you already have interest in but may not have already articulated