So carrying on from last week I used the fabric I bought as a filter, I filmed the scene from Cinderella where she is singing - 'A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep'.
I filmed this through the fabrics in order to get the hazy blurred effect as this relates to my research on dreams, particularly from my interviews exploring how people would describe dreams. This idea was inspired by one of the exhibits in the Saatchi gallery which I mentioned in a previous post. I liked how the filming of the video distorted the footage, so carrying on with the idea of distorting images in a dream like way I created my own version. I created four different versions each featuring different fabrics as filters.
I really like the effect the different fabrics create I think my favourite are the last two especially when it's been filmed through the matte PVC. I think its interesting how you can't see the film but the colours and light still come through which create an interesting effect because it distorts the original film. I like the distortion because this reminds me of dreams, due to how its so unclear what the original film looked like. I think that by me doing this I am able to further my research as I've researched into moving image as well as developing that. However now I am unsure of what to do with this research. I have a few ideas the main one being I'll take stills from my films and develop off of that or even possible interview more people asking them what they think of the film.
So moving on from this and exploring a different aspect of my research. I looked at my three main focusses of research which are the Romeo and Juliet quote, the Cinderella Quote and the Laura Mulvey theory of Voyeurism and Fetishism. To develop these I wanted to take my own photographs that represented these key ideas. So I started brainstorming ideas first looking into the main ideas I had from the Romeo and Juliet quote, looking at my interviews and imagery. I also wanted to incorporate the Levi Strauss theory of binary opposites. In order to do this I chose the most significant elements so for Romeo and Juliet I thought of Beauty VS Destruction, for Cinderella I decided on Hazy VS Bright and for Laurau Mulveys theory I went from Voyeaurism VS Fetishism to The Modonna VS The Whore. I then developed these initial ideas into how I could represent them in photography.
For Romeo and Juliet I thought of the having flowers burning to represent the natural beauty of their love being the flowers, being consumed and destroyed by their irresponsible haste which would be represented by the fire as this is the destructive element. For cinderella I liked the idea of light trying to shine through fabric that distorts and blurs it much like my dreams idea. Such as the blurring and unclear haziness that distort to bright shiny hope that dreams possess. Lastly my idea behind The Modonna VS The Whore, I struggled on initially because I couldn't really think of an inventive and simple way to portray this so I started thinking along the lines of something pure being corrupted and infecting and destroying the innocence which lead me onto how ink or oil would destroy the purity in water.
So after that initial planning I'm going to carry them out tomorrow and hopefully end up with three of my own images that reflect my ideas. Today was a good day I feel. Although I didn't achieve much it really allowed me to focus on my project and get my head back into thinking of work and research and I'm beginning to enjoy it again and I've started getting ideas that will hopefully allow me to be motivated again.
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