Experimental Film Pitch: Sense

Sense

The Idea:

The film is centred around auras the 5 senses; sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. Each of the senses will be connected to a different aura that will surround the body. We will be following two main characters and how their interactions with each other and others have an effect on their auric fields and how sometimes auras can sometimes be shared. Auras can make up who we are at our core, the truths that lie within us, what we feel and our deepest desires. As we change every single day through different experiences, our auric fields change too. In this case I wanted to delve into how the 5 senses could possibly have an effect on them. Interaction affects the auras of all people involved. 

Treatment

Title: Sense

Duration: 5-10 minutes 

Genre: Independent

Outline Production:  A day in the life. In the beginning a male and female couple wake up in the same bed, then they go do their morning routines and leave the house to go about their separate days. They interact with people throughout the day and return home and interact with each other before doing their nightly routine and ending up back in bed. Throughout the day their auric fields will change slightly and dramatically depending on the different exchanges they have throughout the day.

Target Audience: Teenagers and Adults 

Visual Elements: 

Lighting - Low key lighting so that you can really tell when their auras change, the main light will be coming from their auras.

Camera Movement - Tracking the characters.

Editing - The auric fields will be added in post production.

Setting - A house, classroom

Actors - A male and Female aged 18 - 40

Costume - Nothing specific

 

Audio Elements:

Effects - There will be some slight changes in the background music to suit the change in aura.

Music - Serene background music because auras are a very spiritual thing.

Primary and Secondary Research: Read some books on auras and chakras, some online articles, watched videos etc. 

Requirements and Resources: Camera kit, Lighting kit, Adobe creative cloud.

Budget: Free :)

Experimental Film: Migration

My ideas for the experimental film are to take various clips of my friends features since all of us have different features and DNA. I find it interesting how we all originated from the same species from the same ancestors and because of migration and evolution we are all very different even in the slightest of ways.
Since the topic I am basing this piece of work on is early human migration, I have chosen to insert clips from 'Migrations and Intensification: Crash Course Big History #7' from the CrashCourse channel on YouTube. And also from 'The Earliest Human Migration' Discovery Education channel.

I basically will adapt the voice-over from the film and then incorporate some of the clips from it and also from the internet. I have filmed several clips of my friends too that I will also be inserting into the video.

I tried this idea out but it wasn't really working so I thought about the third idea that I had to use candles to represent the people who migrated from one place and spread across the globe.

This was the final result.

Migration

When thinking about my migration project, I wanted to either look into animal migration or early human migration throughout history.

From my Google search of the definition of migration, this is what I discovered that it is;
1. seasonal movement of animals from one region to another.
2. movement from one part of something to another.

I decided to skim read about both types of migration and found early human migration to be a far more interesting topic.

The first creatures to be classified as part of the human race evolved in Africa about 2 million years ago.

According to the genetic and palaeontological record, we only started to leave African between 60,000 and 70,000 years ago. It is believed that humans migrated because of the major climate changes that were happening around then which was the Earth's climate severely cooling down driven by the onset of one of the worst parts of the last Ice Age. This had a vast effect of the human race at the time and it is predicted that our population dropped down to fewer than 10,000 people.

After 70,000 years ago when the climate began to change and improve, so did the population. The population expanded and some explorers began to venture beyond Africa. The first ones to colonize the Eurasian landmass are said to have settled in modern-day Yemen and travelled across the Bab-al-Mandab Strait that separates Yemen from Djibouti. They later on spread along the coast to India, and reached South-east Asian and Australia by 50,000 years ago. By this time our species had made it all across the globe.

Around 50,000 years ago a second group had also began to venture out of Africa into the Middle East and Central Asia. From these bases they could then go on to colonise the northern latitudes of Asia, Europe, and beyond.

By 20,000 years ago a small group of Asian hunters, braved the storm and entered the East Asian Arctic during the Last Glacial Maximum. The ice sheets covering the far north had sucked up the Earth's moisture and dropped the sea levels by more than 300 feet. This exposed the land bridge that connected the Old World to the New, joining Asia to the Americas. Crossing this bridge meant the hunters had made the final great leap of the human journey. By 15,000 years ago they had taken the land south of the ice and within a thousand years they had even made it to the tip of South America, some even making the journey by sea.

However there is more to the story than just this. Agricultural rises around 10,000 years ago led to a population explosion and left a dramatic impact on the human gene pool. Empires rising and ocean-going voyages of the Polynesians, and the extraordinary increase in global migration over the past 500 years leave many human journey questions unanswered.

I also watched this video on Vimeo about the scientific side of the whole migration story which shows the actual jawbones and excavated molars etc.

Science Bulletins: Early Migration for Modern Humans from AMNH on Vimeo.


Sources:
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/

First Experimental Film

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Experimental Film: Time

I watched this short experimental film on vimeo and I liked the concept of the bottles in the beginning, they made the viewer really question what their purpose was and it inspired me to want to incorporate several bottles into my experimental film as well.


.... from Vytautas Juozenas on Vimeo.
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I came across this short film and instantly got inspired to create a short film about alcohol intoxication too and the feelings/emotions it gives different people.

Anne Bean - and Inhabited the Spaces from Matt's Gallery on Vimeo.

I liked the idea of entering the mind of a drunk person. I've heard several times that people speak the truth, spill their secrets and express how they really feel when they are intoxicated so I planned to explore that further.

Resulting in the idea I currently have which is to film, the darker side of the emotions when drunk. I chose this instead of the light, hyper, fun and free feeling because I wanted to include some depth to it. A story perhaps. So I went searching for some poetry written by drunk people and stumbled upon a page where people submit poetry that they write when they are intoxicated and it was interesting to read all of these poems. To empathise with each individual writer and get an understanding of what they were feeling in that very moment in time & how they let it pour out through their fingertips. 

So I will be using a poem as a voice over to different clips of an intoxicated person. Some of the clips will tell the story of the poem but they will be intense and quick-paced, it's meant to be mess with your mind a little bit, and be a bit of jumble because that's how you feel when you're drunk. Messed up.