Sunday, March 6, 2011

Rush 5: Coming Back Home

I would like to explore how to combine to use of perspective and montage in the scene from my childhood. Since the scene would take place in my grandparents' garden, I could use a technique similar to that used in My Effortless Brilliance when they are on the cougar hunt. In MEB, they show varying depths-of-field when the guys are walking through the woods, sometimes focusing on tiny parts of plants, other times bringing the distant men into focus. In my own garden scene, I can see somewhat of a montage of clips that range in focus, with a group of us children always in the background. As far as sound goes, I would like our voices to overlap the images, like in the beginning of MEB, with my voice triggering the start of the story and therefore bringing the focus to the group of children. I would also bring the use of montage back in during the parts where I elaborate on my stories; these would be shown through almost dream-like sequences, maybe with overlapping still pictures or stop-motion clips instead of real-time film.

This is easier to picture in my head than it is to explain it through words. If I find images to aid me, I will post them later.

1 comment:

  1. Yeah, Shelton's use of both depth-of-field and the intertwining of audio/visual tracks could be logically and expressively employed in the creation of your scene. And as I mentioned in the previous comment, you'd also want to begin figuring out how to use these aesthetic elements to express your mapping of conflict/tension from your source film(s) to your own scene--a process that will engage your life story in dimensions that might not otherwise have been articulated.

    100/100

    CS

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