FINAL IDEA

Our final idea is to film the motorway from above on a bridge showing the change in the sky and the cars flying by. There will also be information layered over the top regarding climate change emphasised by the change in the sky. All the footage will be spead up to demonstrate the changes quickly and more effectively.

Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance

Another inspiration was this film 'Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance' by director Godfrey Reggio for it's time lapsed footage and changing skys.

'Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance'

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Because i'd done quite a bit of research already on the original idea i wanted to keep some of those ideas in this film as to not waste a whole lot of time. We've managed to keep the idea of one long single shot but just a lot faster than originaly planned. We have also managed to include political and cultural issues into the piece as we intended. I think the only thing we have not included is the americana style that i once intended to use. Saying that the colours in the sky are quite typical of that style.

OTHER FILM MAKERS WHO TACKLE SPEED

'Jonas Akerlund' in his film 'SPUN' tackles speed on two levels, one by creating scenes based around taking speed and two by recreating this feeling through quick edits and spead up footage.

'SPUN'



"Go away fat boy... I SAID GO AWAY FAT BOY" 02:45 minutes in, HA! well funny!

'Black Rebel Motorcycle Club' the video for Stop shown below has more in common with what we want to create in the way that it involves cars spead up at night. Not sure who the director is though. The quality if this video is pretty poor but you get the idea.

'BRMC' Stop;

MO' INSPIRATION

A style of film making that was an inspiration to our revised film was Time-Lapse where you film at a slower frame speed and then when played back faster seems fluid. A reason for doing this is so you can film over long period of time to show change in something quickly which is what kind of intend to do but without using a slower frame speed.

Here is a good example of this;

'Time Lapse Tamato'



Here is another film that uses this technique but is a lot more thought through and with a lot more styleistic intent;

'Time Lapse Video of Guy Driving Across the Country'

SOMEONES THROWN A SPANNER IN THE WORKS!!!

After agreeing with Blue Rinse Vintage store that we could film in their establishment they decided to tell us the day before filming that we could no longer film there. Due to our film being so strongly based on that location we have now decided to come up with a fresh idea based upon speed and influenced by a couple of photos that Paul and I have taken in the past of motorways at night using a long exposure. It will also be showing a change of time from daytime to night time. We also intend on using slow footage to emphasise the faster footage. The film will be shot from on top of a bridge over a motorway filming the cars driving beneath and the sky as it changes. To demonstrate speed we will speed up the footage hopefully creating lines of light from the cars headlights We have also filmed me going up an escelator and coming down a set of sairs over and over again that i would like to loop and layer over the top at points. Reason being that it is very slow and almost painfull to watch which a complete contrast to the fast flowing cars on the motorway.
I think we might use this track by Sebastian Tellier called 'Manty' just hit this link and it will take you to the track.

http://inbedwithdactylo.free.fr/ecoute/Manty.mp3

Also here is the forementioned photo that was an inspiration to us.

FILM STYLINGS

I would like to share with you 2 Beck videos that i think have a very nice style to them and as a result have had quite a big effect on the style of our film. The biggest influence is the colour which can only be described as typical americana. This had a big influence on where we could shoot this film, and after racking my brains for a location i thought of the vintage store blue rinse vintage down by the corn exchange for its colour and colection old american memorabelia.

Beck 'Devils Haircut'



Beck 'Girl'