After Jonathan Lees talk about his art and the projects he has worked on, I was really impressed by the light drawing images, it got me thinking about having a go for myself so when I went home to work on my memory artefact I asked a few of my mates to help me do some light drawing and here is the outcome:
My Favourite
first attempt
second attempt
Third attempt
Fourth attempt
Fifth attempt
Sixth attempt
Seventh attempt
Eight attempt
Ninth attempt
Tenth attempt
Eleventh attempt
Twelveth attempt
My Favourite
Even though this doesn’t relate to my memory artefact I think that its all influential on the work I produce in the future Jonathan obviously has a lot more production time and more people helping him on his work but I tried to just capture a few ideas I had in my head at the time. Jonathans other piece, the water documentary was very interesting I thought it could be good to make something along those lines but something more personal to where I live (Frampton on Severn).
Hunger:
The Steve McQueen Film based on the exploits of the Maze prison during the troubles in Northern Ireland. The film is very disjointed to begin but draws together by about 20mins into it. There are about 6 shots in the film that are over 4 mins in length and one scene of about 10 mins the shot is of two men sitting down talking you may think that this would get tiresome but the way Mcqueen makes this work is the level of depth the script has been worked on and rehearsed he also seem to make all the long shots very simple composition means the longevity is almost unnoticeable.
Going into the film I didn’t know too much about Bobby Sands and Maze, but in my opinion the film seemed very biased towards the prisoners and very anti Thatcher.
I think that I could take the incredible long shots from the film and put into my work like the idead for memory if i made it into a film I could have really long moving shots with a voice over.
Another director who loves his long shots is Gus Van Sant but he also makes them work really well, i remember watching Elephant for the first time and thinking wow what is this how does a director get away with such long shots the I watched Last Days I really understood that they were there for effect not just because Van Sant thought he was an arty director. The shots used maybe slow but they keep the narrative flowing at the pace the director wants I think this is the biggest skill that this style of film needs is to decide when the audience and the film needs a cut.
The Apology Line:
Another film using these styles that is a bit closer to home is The Apology Line the short by James Lees that uses very considered shots about what is being said on screen to the image being shown.
This is making me think that maybe I will try adopt this style of film making for my final project, the idea that the shots do not directly reference the moving image but obviosly have a link to what is being said.
Youtube
Nick talking on the power youtube today got me thinking about a little presentation I made with Kate Bentley last year
other works by my fair hand:
The video above is a video I created for a level it was my directurial debut it was created in about a week shoot and about a week edit it something I would like to return to in the future with a bit more knowledge I have now
The video below is a little animation I made with flash cs4 just messing around really nothing ment by it its an experiment
