Meshes of the Afternoon

Film maker: Maya Deren
Experimental Film: Meshes of the Afternoon
Year: 1943

This was my second favourite piece out the six or seven we watched. This had the most 'narrative' approach, even though ti still doesn't have a set one. It included repetition, but rather then showing specific objects or words like the other pieces did, it was focuses on this woman who was following the figure in a black cloak and kept cutting back to various parts of her journey. Again it was all in black and white and had a piece or eerie music to accompany the footage. This has shown me that I will most definitely have my piece in black and white, unless my idea changes this and I also think it is essential that I need to include good accompanying music and sound effects.

These shots above were one of my favourites used in the Experimental piece. I love the close up and slightly low angled shot of the eye and the way you can see the light glinting in her eye and this is something I would like it to be interpreted into my own piece by possible doing a close up on a certain part of the characters body. However, due to our ideas being 100% uncertain yet, we will have to wait and see until it comes down to filming and editing our own Experimental piece.

I really enjoyed looking at the majority of the different Experimental pieces, but this was one was definitely my favourite.