My 5 images

I've chosen to go down the nostalgic route regarding the style of photographs I want to take. I want to do a sort of "then and now" project, showing how places/buildings have changed or developed or even been destroyed, to show how far the world has come, how it has evolved, how nature takes its toll on untouched architecture, how pollution almost poisons the buildings; showing the contrast in colour and quality and even how these iconic locations have been (if they have been) modified in any sort of way. I will execute this project by taking photographs of iconic places, from the same angle to give it more of a nostalgic feel. I will then compare the two photos (before and after) and place them in the same frame. I will extract some pieces of the photo so there will only be one subject but from different times, to show the audience how it has changed, if it has. I will be taking a picture of Big Ben (London), Moor Park (Farnham), Farnham Railway (Farnham), Farnham Castle (Farnham) and Stonehenge (Wiltshire).

Sounds

The image I was given is titled "My Bed" and it's a piece by Tracey Emin. This piece of Artwork straight away gave me the impression of laziness, tiredness, perhaps no sense of hygiene and oddly relaxation. The rubbish scattered on the floor around the bed shows us incompetence, lack of organisation, even lack of skill. But if we look into the artwork deeper it gave me the impression of stress-free, a sense of happiness, just casual chill time. It really depends on your perception on it. My perception of the artwork will be shown in my sound project. I'll talk you through it.
Firstly it will start off with a person snoring, continuously to show the audience that the person is in a deep sleep. All of a sudden an alarm goes off, the alarm is very "alarming" almost instantly waking up the person from the deep sleep. The person, annoyed that they have been woken up by such a dreadful noise, can be heard trying to turn the alarm off, eventually the frustrated sleepy head accomplishes this. There is a short silence, followed by a short sigh. The person will now feel relaxed. I want to interpret the song by Bruno Mars called "The Lazy Song" and I want to somehow incorporate that song into my piece. So I figured I could have the person subtly sing one of the famous lines of lyric from the song; "Today I don't feel like doing anything" followed by a faint whistle (as the song also contains whistling) "I just want to lay in my bed".
This will be followed by a slightly longer silence. Then I will have the person sneeze, cough, eat something that has a noisy wrapper, drink something from a glass bottle, then blow into the glass bottle to give us that whistle-like sound. With these simple sounds I will attempt to recreate "The Lazy Song" with the subtle lyrics sung (not very well) by the person who is still in the bed. This will carry on until the audience can hear a phone start to ring. All the noises stop and the person answers the phone. On the other end of the phone call is his mum, asking how uni was, and the person will lie through his teeth and then continue to have a normal conversation with her. They will continue the conversation and then it will slowly fade away.
I tried to recreate the famous song but once I put it all together it didn't sound right personally, so I scrapped that part of the idea and decided to add a bit of humour into it instead.
I also inputted a lady presenting the weather forecast, which will give the audience an idea of what the weather is like outside, you can also hear the ran hit on the window to emphasise what she is saying. I fall in and out of sleep and get woken up by various things, at the end I receive a phone call from my Mum, and I explain how I was at uni, and everything is going well. The sounds slowly fade out in the end.

OK, This idea is for real.

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This idea will concentrate on how isolation empathises a break-up, and how it can effect a person negatively, showing different memories that occur, triggered by different objects (such as photo's, clothing etc) and different senses (touch, smell, sight etc).
Picture a young man in his room, watching the world pass through his window, no motivation, no expression, no care left. Until he gets up out of bed, and walks around his room a little, looking outside his window, and interacting with the various objects scattered around his room. Each object will trigger a different memory, either good or bad, it will still remind him of his ex. Some camera shots will show a half-bottle of whisky on the side, with an ashtray full of cigarette butts, showing the audience that he did try to forget about it all at one point. He glances down at the floor and notices a picture. The audience cannot see what the picture consists of. The scene cuts to the young man holding the picture. (POV shot). The audience can see what the picture is now; its a picture of him and his ex-girlfriend smiling in a public place, and they look like they're enjoying themselves a lot. He then moves the picture down to show the audience the reality of the situation; the same place where the picture was taken but there is no happy couple, and the scene looks really dark and glum.
The young man continues to walk, on the way we as the audience can see he is rather depressed, head down, eyes on the pavement, still no care in the world, looking depressed. He passes a fish and chip shop, and then walks back to in front of it. The fish and chip shop triggers a memory. This memory shows the couple having a great time, this could possibly be their favourite place to get food from, as the audience can see that they are enjoying themselves a lot.
He continues walking anonymously, with no regard where he might end up, as finds himself at the train station. Depressed, he approaches the platform, eyes still locked onto the ground (POV shot of his feet, approaching the edge of the platform). For some reason, he slowly glances upwards, so he is looking ahead of himself. He sees his ex girlfriend, and she faintly smiles. The young man's eyes widened with joy, and breaks a smile, and then tries to walk towards her, completely forgetting that there is a platform in front of him. He soon finds out about the platform as a train rushes past him in high velocity, giving the young man a shock, and almost a panic look on his face, as he is desperate to get to the other side. He impatiently waits for the train to pass so he can see the other side of the platform, only to find nobody on the other side. Perhaps it was his imagination, a mirage if you will. He lets his head drop and the same depressed look on his face occurs. Losing all hope, he glances to his side, and two people are out of focus. As he looks directly at them the camera focuses on the two subjects. He sees his ex-girlfriend with another man, holding hands, laughing and walking off into the distance.
The young man's face, after seeing this, changes from depressed and hopeless, to betrayed and annoyed, and from this facial expression the camera cuts the scene.
The next scene is of the young man, in his room, this time looking for active than before, more in control of his actions, he isn't flowing or going along with anything, he is making almost assertive actions now, showing the contrast of character from the first scene. The audience can see him on his bed, with photographs and a lighter, with a bin on the floor. The only lighting in this scene will be from the lighter the young man is holding. This will show the audience the importance of the lighter, and how effective this instrument will be as the scene progresses. The audience can also see the change of emotion on the young man's face; before his mind was all over the place but in this scene he looks calm and collected, he knows exactly what he's doing. He begins to burn the photographs; which are of him and his ex. As he is burning them, memories will be triggered; the lighter when it is sparked will trigger one, when the burnt photograph hits the bottom of the bin will trigger one, a close-up of his expressions will trigger one, basically all aspects of this final scene will trigger a memory. As the scene gets deeper, the memories start to be triggered more vigorously, more sharper, more unsettling until all the tension is finally broken when he burns the last photo and lets out a big sigh. The young man then walks towards his window, and opens it. This will symbolise purity, letting in fresh air could mean a fresh start, a new beginning, and the scene ends with the young man looking off into the distance.

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The location of the room will be at Thurbans Road, where we live, it will be one of our own rooms so we don't need to ask for permission. The other various shots will take place around Farnham high street, which we would only be required to fill out hazard assessment forms. I will however need permission to film in the fish and chip shop. Again, we will enquire about filming in the train station, find out if we need permission etc. Shooting all the footage will take roughly two days, which will leave us with editing the film for the remanding days. The actor and actress will be a friend of ours so we will not need to hire/pay for talent.

Just another Idea

The idea is one that will concentrate on the memories we reflect on, when we reminisce and think back to the "good old days". We will basically have a set of old photographs; of ourselves, in places that we had the most fun. We will remake the exact scene of where the photo was taken, and show you the contrast of time and what effect it has on us as it goes on.  Camera transition is crucial in our project. We will have a POV-like shot of a person holding the photo of the memory. They will then slowly move the photo down, revealing the real life reenactment. There will be some bad memories included, maybe someone died or something unfortunate happened, but as the video progresses you will be able to see that people can pull through and carry on, kind of motivational/inspirational material.
The video starts off with our main character; we have chosen a man. The main focal point will be on him and his memories. We start off in Farnham, and the audience can tell that he is homesick. Looking out the window, holding old photos, looks like he is reminiscing. He picks up his phone and texts his mum "I'm coming home". There will be a jump-cut/montage of him getting ready, grabbing his keys and shutting the door behind him.
[shot idea] put the camera in the front of the car so we can make a time-lapse of the journey from Farnham to London, at the end of the time lapse there will be a shot of a sign that says 'London' so the audience knows that he has come back home.
When he gets to London, he steps out of his car and the audience can immediately see that he is happier than he was before in Farnham, breathing in deep breaths, looking around, kind of smiling, looking and acknowledging everything that he encounters.
He goes home, his mum opens the door, he gives her a big hug and a kiss, and they go inside, the door shuts. The camera cuts to a shot of the man sitting at the table looking at some photos. His mum comes in and gives him a cup of tea, gently touches him on the top of the head and walks out of the shot. The camera then slowly moves closer and spins slightly so the audience can now see what he is looking at as the camera is above the mans shoulder.
The camera then gets even closer, so the whole photo is in shot. Then the transaction of memory to reality will take place. The photo will then leave the shot, and leave us in a different location, the same location as the one in the photo.
The photo literally comes to life and whatever memory that photo consists of, that will take place in the shot, natural movement, the man is smiling and laughing, then walks in his desired direction. The camera then pans with the man, but stops when he is out of frame and then the camera will follow somebody else, and will show the audience their memory, of course using the same procedure as the man with the photos. This process will continue throughout the whole film, showing how different people reflect on different situations, and how weird it is that they all connect in some way, whether it is within the photo or regarding their emotions.