Group

Possible group : Me, Abril & Nina

Ideas we have come up with :

• How music effects the brain- maybe show wave lengths, use coloured film- scratch the film to match different sounds/genres of music? 
• Dreaming/lucid dreaming- I really like this idea - i thought film people and then draw/scratch/paint the dream on top of the 16mm film? or add tiny picture inserts
• use colour film for dreams and black and white for nightmares? perhaps do both in the same film?
• Use both digital and film footage- perhaps use inserts of digital images and put them on top of the film footage- sort of double exposure 

I actually try to write down most of my dreams before I wake up so I can remember them- maybe Nina, Abril and I could all do this and create an idea from it??

Bolex Camera test shots - UNFINISHED

Today we did test shots using a Bolex camera.
I found it a bit difficult to set up, but once we did filming was enjoyable. I hope that the aperture and exposure etc was all set right because the view finder is really dark.
I'm thinking of using a Bolex for my final piece, but I want to see how the test shots come out before I make any decisions. I like the idea of using film and digital footage together, I also want to play around with double exposures. I really love the grainy effect film footage has.

Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse that uses infrared film for his photography.
http://www.richardmosse.com/projects/heat-maps



I really love the way these images look, the colours are so vibrant.
Richard Mosse plays around with different colour temperatures in his work, another piece I find really interesting is called Heatmap:

Mosse has documented refugee camps and staging sites using an extreme telephoto military-grade camera that can detect thermal radiation, including body heat, at great distance. The camera is used against its intended purpose of border and combat surveillance to map landscapes of human displacement. Reading heat as both metaphor and index, these images reveal the harsh struggle for survival lived daily by millions of refugees and migrants, seen but overlooked, and ignored by many.

I really like the idea of playing around with different qualities/colours/conditions of film in the project, maybe even filming both on 35mm and digital to compare the difference.

Initial Ideas

• Buy old footage online & cut to re-create a new moving image piece- archive footage
• Play with colour- negative film/ infrared film 
• Dip films in chemicals/ scratch film/ paint films to distort the image
• Play around with existing footage
• Take clips of political/world wide issues & cut & add positive up beat soundtracks
• Multi screen - political parties/police next to pigs
• Animal cruelty videos next to mc donalds/ steaks etc
• Play with lighting- deliberately over and under expose 
• Compare visual cultures
• Compare old& new controversy- how it seems we're going backwards instead of moving forward
• Still life- just have one part of the image moving. GIFS