Inspiration

In this following music video that was made within my same 6th form group when completing A level media, I remembered a couple of really good shots that were quite 'out there' and I think if we incorporated them somehow into our Experimental film and putting our own twist on them it would look really effective.

The first shot we really liked was the one of her smearing out words on her chest almost to 'make them go away':

So, we used a similar shot but had me looking directly straight down at the camera (in order to make a better connection with the audience and that's one of the main points in Experimental film making - to get the audience connected with the footage in order for them to make/create their own interpretation of it). Also, we wrote the word "IDENTITY" across my chest in a bold pink lipstick to contrast with the dark eye make up used to portray the "dark" side of her personality. We surrounded this with question marks to add to her confusion.

Another shot i really liked and showed to Hannah and Natalie is where the girl in this music video is lying down on the floor upside down to the camera and is surrounded by news paper cuttings of various things (music themed as this was for a music video). It shows her picking some up and placing them down, but also screwing and ripping some up too.

So, we then took inspiration from this and decided to have me lying upside down facing the camera and again looking directly towards it. We filmed it in a number of different combinations, both with the "dark" character and both with the girl in her "normal" state. WE then filmed it with just the words, just the images and then both together. Also taking it in turns to pick up, drop, screw up and rip a few. I think this really looks effective and we are unsure whether to put it in colour or keep it in black and white, but when it comes to editing I'm sure we will make the correct decision in order to fit the Experimental brief to the best we can.

I'm glad I found this video when doing some research as it has given us many ideas to put into our project that by making them unique to these original shots, we can really make a good Experimental piece of work.