LCF GROUP 4 MOVING IMAGE: May 2011

Moodboards

mystic/tribal styling

casting

mystic/tribal

water

bathtub/ immersion

these new puritans - we want war

Constantine/ our opening/closing scene?

SUBMISSION DEADLINE Portobello Film Festival 2011

Time	Friday, June 17 · 12:00pm - 3:00pm

Location	http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/

Created By	LCF BA FASHION ILLUSTRATION

More Info	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. Download entry form here: http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/image/2011pics/entryform2011.pdf http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/

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

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.

Date	Need to be done
2^nd – 8^th may	We need to decide on a storyboard for our final image, to create a story and a plot from our research (production planning), the style, colour (greyscale ect), look or if possible decide on a location that fits our film, and finally casting of actors.
9^th – 15^th may	Start practicing shooting this week, going through the scrip and looking at the camera shots. Maybe a trial run through of the film, with or without the actors.
16^th- 22^nd may	Re-shoot and start editing the footage and playing around.
23^rd- 29^th may	(FORMATIVE FEEDBACK MANDATORY) each group will present their film at its formative stage. Including reference tests, stills, storyboards ect. After this we may need to refine and re-shoot due to feed-back!
30^th – 5^th june	Work on editing and sound!
6^th- 12^th june	Continue editing and re-shooting if necessary. Upload the final film on to youtube. And finish!!! :)
Thursday 16^th june	10am LG204
Thursday 23^rd june	Feedback tutorials and screening

This is a week by week guid to help the group understand what has to be done, thought this would help to get things moving!!!! and remind people that we dont have that long till hand in :)