As Live - Initial Ideas

Documentary - Don't Call Me Chav

I am extremely proud of this piece of work, but........
Still having problems viewing this on You Tube. It only allows people to view if they are logged into the account on which it was uploaded, i.e. UCA Broadcast media and Laurenjay901 - which a real shame, as I wanted lots of people to view it and post it on here.  Here is the link, but unless you are a user of those two channels I'm afraid it's banned for copyright issues, boo hoo You Tube!

The Listeners - Image Ideas

Location Idea

Idea for Phantoms

I'm currently creating a mood board, of the kinds of images I want to use in my short film. I want it to be really disturbing, with flash images etc. 

Idea for costume

A video response to the poem, fro the point of view of the Listeners. This is the kind of atmosphere I want to create. 

This is the kind of setting I want but I need to do some research and recce filming in the dark, not sure how to go about it just yet, may use a torch and set the camera up so it has a really slow shutter speed, making the images almost blurred and in slow motion, which may add to the atmosphere. 

Locations Idea

For my soundtrack, I want to create some music, a thudding heartbeat track and knocking of the door. I want the poem to be read in a mixture of whisper and shouting, to create tension and timely scares. I also want some wording I think to appear in the film, but in faint whispers, as well as the use of screen blackouts, shadows and torch light. 

Fiction Adaption - The Listners

I am certain this is the poem I want to do now and am looking forward to creating a great atmosphere and be as original as possible!


I found this song on You Tube, it's a music rendition of the poem. I really like it, as it suits my taste is guitar and sound, I would like to try something similar for my piece. I might try writing my own music on the guitar and recording it, although I'm not sure if this is allowed?





The poem is incredibly errie, and I am fasicnated by it's different interpretations. Some believe it is a straight forward horror poem, others suggest the traveller is the poet trying to find his creativity and suffering writers block, or that he is trying to contact his audience and that we are the phantoms, but he isn't having much luck.


Another interpretation is that the traveller could be anyone of us, seraching for creativity or dealing with the loss of childhood.




I'm unsure of what interpretation I wish to follow, or what I like best. I think the idea of us being the phantoms is the most disturbing, as it brings a sense of reality, which I want to use to create a truly experimental and disturbing tone.

End of the Holidays!

I actually cannot wait to start uni again now! It feels like such a long time since we have all been together working an a project!!
I have had a lovely time off though, and had some great insprirational experiences.  Rome was beautiful, and full of breath taking art and artitechture, I really would reccomend going to anyone! The Vatican, is just breathtaking, especially The Pieta Michelangelo, my favourite piece of work! The Sistine Chapel was pretty impressive too!

Since returning I have been reading a lot about ancient Rome, about the rise of the Catholics and the Templers, it's really fascinating, and hope to soon write a script or story that can put my new found interest to good use!


I've also seen some great films and television over the holidays, I will do a review of  these in a seperate post, but here are a few of my favourites:


TV:
Sherlock
Great Expectations
The Walking Dead
Pushing Daisies Two
Ringer
Band of Brothers - for the 100th time, never gets boring!
Mad Dogs


Films:
Sherlock Holmes 2 - Guy Ritchie- EXCELLENT
War Horse - Steven Spielburg - BEAUTIFUL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Limitless
True Grit
Zulu
What Dreams May Come - Very emotional, but stunning visuals




I've also made a start on research for the projects when we come back. I really like the idea of the adaption, and am trying to think as experimentally as possible!
I think I've set my heart on this one:

The Listeners

By Walter De La Mare 1873–1956 Walter De La Mare

 

‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,   

   Knocking on the moonlit door;

And his horse in the silence champed the grasses   

   Of the forest’s ferny floor:

And a bird flew up out of the turret,   

   Above the Traveller’s head:

And he smote upon the door again a second time;   

   ‘Is there anybody there?’ he said.

But no one descended to the Traveller;   

   No head from the leaf-fringed sill

Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,   

   Where he stood perplexed and still.

But only a host of phantom listeners   

   That dwelt in the lone house then

Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight   

   To that voice from the world of men:

Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,   

   That goes down to the empty hall,

Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken   

   By the lonely Traveller’s call.

And he felt in his heart their strangeness,   

   Their stillness answering his cry,

While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,   

   ’Neath the starred and leafy sky;

For he suddenly smote on the door, even   

   Louder, and lifted his head:—

‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,   

   That I kept my word,’ he said.

Never the least stir made the listeners,   

   Though every word he spake

Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house   

   From the one man left awake:

Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,   

   And the sound of iron on stone,

And how the silence surged softly backward,   

   When the plunging hoofs were gone.

I want to create a true horror atmosphere, thats quite disoritentating, as I believe this poem is quite personal, and that the readers are maybe the phantoms, or it expalins the loss of childhood and creativity. Not sure on what path I'm going to take with the Horse though...........