Continuing to explore spaces to film
Continuing to explore with film I had myself filmed in the market square. A man was sitting and I filmed him for about ten minutes. This filming felt strange and uncomfortable to me. I was scared to offend, trying to be discreet and not seen. I continued filming on the bus, on the embankment near Trent Bridge and at home playing dress up. These shots are ordinary at least that's what I was aiming for in this process.
The reason for the black and white is that I wanted to strip down to basics and this reflects getting to the root, going to raw places. It is also classic a traditional and it instantly projects thoughts of a past. With me already looking at Charlie Chaplin and wanting clarity in what one is saying. Looking back towards the first film within the project I sculpted layers with the sound and picture leaving you with a discomfort of chaos although also some kind of clarity. This part of the project I wanted to simplify partly searching for something simple in aesthetics yet it speaks out.
By wearing the Skelton costume and wig I am doing this to hide, yet show the emptiness-ending of life, death, depression. Eating at the table, stuffing my face with snacks, filling up those empty spaces when I do not feel anything, doing mundane everyday things, and filming in colour continuously filtering black and white. It's like the extremes of thinking entirely empty or totally high in black and white. The neutralness of colour enables the viewer to focus on things through the traditional classic black-white filter setting a tone with everyday ordinary things. It is what we associate it with in our minds it's the history of black and white film and it appears to be so buried in the psyche that it works with the narrative. It works with the presentation of sound.
