stop motion overlay test 1

ignore the bad quality of the footage, this is just a compressed version to demonstrate one of our first experiments with overlaying stop motion with the film footage.

the main tribal look




this it the main tribal look so far, it needs a head piece! but its got shoulder pads made of fox tails, what u all think?

Valeria





stills from the audition video with Valeria. She is going to play the main character in our film.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE Portobello Film Festival 2011

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Friday, June 17 · 12:00pm - 3:00pm

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If you would like to submit a film (can be a feature, a short, an animation, a documentary...) to the Portobello Film Festival this year then make sure you submit it before 17 June.

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Nosaj Thing - Night Crawler

This is the video that i was talking about yesterday!! x

DESIGNS

I made a heart shaped brooch as an accessorie for the film.

A quick sketch of a hat design! :)

Short films

a couple of interesting short films to watch, visually and conceptually interesting, with that dark Pasolini element.



the gareth pugh one is very relevant, watch it all the way through, look out for the use of water/religious iconography

More casting ideas

Jane Birkin and Gillian Hills in Blow Up, Anne Wiazemsky in Teorema and Margherita Caruso in The Gospel According to St Matthew. They all have such similar qualities in their faces, quite big beguiling eyes, soft faces, plump lips, but also something quite seductive and captivating whilst possessing a vacant quality at times which is a look which we should possibly consider when casting.






Teorema and Blow Up

Interesting article about PPP and Italian cinema in the 1960s:
http://filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1219068743272&schienen_id=1225694258582

I remember when i was watching Teorema i thought it reminded me of the film Blow Up by director Michelangelo Antonioni. Turns out after a bit of research, Teorema was actually released two years after. Can anyone else see the similarity between Terence Stamp (the visitor/teorema) and David Hemmings (photographer/main character/blow up)? Look at their eyes for a clue. Perhaps an element to consider when casting?



possible location

just a photo i took ages ago. played around with colour just to show a few options of how the lighting we choose can change the atmosphere/mood.




Lady GAGA on The Graham Norton Show!



Was watching this last night and thought it was a great refrence for the styling!!x x x

Levi's Commercial - Tainted Love

This video is'nt really connected with the way we want to take our final film, but i thought i was so funny it had to be but on the the blog xx

tommy

has anyone seen this film before? it might be interesting for you guys to watch, it's pretty surreal and psychedelic and has religious/cult references that make it relevant to our project?


bambi

i remembered this and thought i'd share with you guys if you haven't come across it before. part two is a bit more relevant but i like the aesthetics!


Critical writing


This is a quote from Pasolini talking about his film Teorema:
 “I leave it to the spectator…is the visitor God or is he the devil? The important thing is that he is sacred, a supernatural being. He is something from beyond.”

This is a good example of Pasolini's interest in what ifs?, potentials and alternate worlds.

Below are a few interesting quotes from the book 'The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini' by Sam Rohdie, to help us try and get inside Pasolinis head and his way of thinking. It all seems to conclude that Pasolini likes this element of ambiguity.  

 “Pasolini’s dream language tended towards the paranoid.”

 “So powerful was the dream that it managed to overcome reality. But by being conscious of itself as dream, it was conscious of its own unreality, hence vulnerability.”

 “..he moved to myth, to never-never lands, lands of dreams, the Faraway”

A reminder of one idea we've been discussing that relates to all the above, is rather than having a really structured literal storyline we could perhaps go down the path of creating something much more abstracted and metaphorical.

gaga

Music video for Lady Gaga - Judas. Seems like an obvious thing to look at Lady Gaga, but this video is a good present day reference as it's quite relevant to Pasolini and possibly Levis too. You have the obvious religious connection with The Gospel According to St Matthew, some kind of connection in the styling/location with Medea and the beginning with the motorbikes reminds me of Levis for some reason. There's also the scene in the water which is something we've been discussing as an element to explore.