With the ending of our trip to Nieuwpoort I can finally manage to put a few things in order.
I've finally come to a working title for my film as well as a short and clear description. 'This reminds me of you'(Workingtitle) is a film about the unspoken intimacy between people and the delicate relationships that are built around that. With this vision I approach people and form a conversation to see what their own perspective and experiences are with this idea.
What I want to accomplish with my film is the translation of this concept to a non-narrative visual collage that focuses on the experience of the intimacy rather than a traditional story telling.
At the same time I'm bringing a tribute to these relationships and people through tiny portraits- Portraits in this case being the actions, places and stories that are associated with them.
Next up I realised I'm somewhat struggling to find a proper question for my thesis.
Whereas I was first concerned about researching poetic film and film poems I quickly found out this subject was difficult and not interesting to pursue. Because definitions around film poems, poetic films, film poetry, etc... are related to historic context and the way author film makers wanted to be perceived at the time it all becomes an endless discussion. It doesn't help that postmodernism managed to completely erase any definition regarding film poems and pretty much made it open for interpretation, turning the whole genre into something vague. If I wanted to continue down this lane I felt like I first needed to give a historical analysis before I could link it to my own work. And I'm not one for beating a dead horse.
Instead I want to focus on the intuitive work process behind these films. And how different artist approach making films in a way that's defined by feeling and not thinking. How far and what I will talk about is still unclear, partly because I have yet to decide on a question- and start research.
Practically speaking I know what I have to do to guide my actual film through a proper development. As I'm currently storyboarding bits and pieces I'm also starting on turning them into animatic scenes. I'm gathering these scenes and acts in a way that I can puzzle them together later into a montage. My deadline for a, more or less, finished animatic is the end of December. By then I also wish to have short bit tested out with actual animation- how I want it to look in my finished film. This way I can figure out how much my workload is and where I need to cut back to safely reach my goals.
During this time I also need to develop my sound concept further, going out in the field and pick up some environment recordings. All in all it'll be a busy month but I reckon it will pay off when I have to start the actual animating.
I've finally come to a working title for my film as well as a short and clear description. 'This reminds me of you'(Workingtitle) is a film about the unspoken intimacy between people and the delicate relationships that are built around that. With this vision I approach people and form a conversation to see what their own perspective and experiences are with this idea.
What I want to accomplish with my film is the translation of this concept to a non-narrative visual collage that focuses on the experience of the intimacy rather than a traditional story telling.
At the same time I'm bringing a tribute to these relationships and people through tiny portraits- Portraits in this case being the actions, places and stories that are associated with them.
Next up I realised I'm somewhat struggling to find a proper question for my thesis.
Whereas I was first concerned about researching poetic film and film poems I quickly found out this subject was difficult and not interesting to pursue. Because definitions around film poems, poetic films, film poetry, etc... are related to historic context and the way author film makers wanted to be perceived at the time it all becomes an endless discussion. It doesn't help that postmodernism managed to completely erase any definition regarding film poems and pretty much made it open for interpretation, turning the whole genre into something vague. If I wanted to continue down this lane I felt like I first needed to give a historical analysis before I could link it to my own work. And I'm not one for beating a dead horse.
Instead I want to focus on the intuitive work process behind these films. And how different artist approach making films in a way that's defined by feeling and not thinking. How far and what I will talk about is still unclear, partly because I have yet to decide on a question- and start research.
Practically speaking I know what I have to do to guide my actual film through a proper development. As I'm currently storyboarding bits and pieces I'm also starting on turning them into animatic scenes. I'm gathering these scenes and acts in a way that I can puzzle them together later into a montage. My deadline for a, more or less, finished animatic is the end of December. By then I also wish to have short bit tested out with actual animation- how I want it to look in my finished film. This way I can figure out how much my workload is and where I need to cut back to safely reach my goals.
During this time I also need to develop my sound concept further, going out in the field and pick up some environment recordings. All in all it'll be a busy month but I reckon it will pay off when I have to start the actual animating.