Experimental Project Idea One: I.D.

'I.D.'

For our experimental project, we decided to base it around a word as well as an emotional piece. We didn't know many poems and wanted to concentrate on something we could use quite well. We also had the idea of 'Love' and expressing the different methods, both good and bad. But since this was experimental, I wanted push myself to try something totally different, random almost, to make it more creative and a more exciting project to complete.

We chose to base ours on the idea of someone not knowing who they are. They display multiple personalities, like schizophrenia sufferers. She doesn't know who she is, she doesn't know her identity. The video is about exploring, conflicting and realisation what her identity is. She clashes with her other personalities, her 'darker sides', 'her fears and pains', to in the end, realise that the fight may never end, even though she thinks it's already over.

A couple of early ideas for sound were to have a music track which would be played throughout the piece. After research, I've noticed that this is the most popular type of sound, because the genre has no narrative, therefore dialogue can make it something the film-maker doesn't want it to be. We want the tone to be quite dreary, yet feature beats to represent the conflict and pain the character feels. We also wanted to include a faded, distorted voice within the music to represent her other personalities tormenting her, telling her things that don't make sense to her, making her feel more trapped and scared - but as stated before, we don't want any normal dialogue in the footage.

We also thought up some early shots we wanted to use. One was of the character looking at an I.D. card of some form, and seeing her other personality on the photo, moving and talking to her (in the sound piece). We thought it would be effective to try do a shot inside another shot, hopefully, it'll work!

Another shot I thought of was setting the same scene, but split screening the footage. One side would be her innocent, lost self who is trying to find her identity, and the other side her other personality, mocking her, or just to clearly show there's two sides to this person.. or even more....

I wanted to use a lot of overlap shots which show the character in multiple places on the same frame. Because it was meant to be all of these identities at once, which slowly decrease to leave just the one - her true identity in the end. 

Another idea for a split shot, was to have the good and bad in the same shot once again, getting out of bed at the opposite sides. I wanted to create the idea that she is never alone, these other personalities are constantly with her and it kills her to know she doesn't know what it all means. 

I like the idea of jolt shots - meaning you quickly jump from one piece of footage to another and back again, which i think would be good to show different things, such as: good gets orange juice/bad gets vodka, good puts her hood up/bad stands in the rain and lights up a cigarette. And every so often to jolt the audience as well.

Another shot idea was to have a reflection in the water. The 'good' side would peer into the water, only to see the 'bad side' smiling back at her. She splashes the water in fear until her own reflection is back....

Random thoughts, which are all over the place at the moment, but that's experimental I guess! :)