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
2nd – 8th 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.
9th – 15th 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.
16th- 22nd may	Re-shoot and start editing the footage and playing around.
23rd- 29th 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!
30th – 5th june	Work on editing and sound!
6th- 12th june	Continue editing and re-shooting if necessary. Upload the final film on to youtube. And finish!!! :)
Thursday 16th june	10am  LG204
Thursday 23rd 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 :)

Levi's - America (Go Forth) Commercial

The idea of the lights at the begining might be an idea!!?

Michel Gondry Levi's Commercial

I love this AD maybe something to work from? x

Levi Inspired artwork!!

Madonna D&G AD!!

These D&G aderts are based on the 1960's film 'mumma roma' by our chosen director Pier Pasolini. Phototgrapgy by Steven klien, 2010.