first thing that gave me inspiration was watching the film turner by mike liegh. i loved the establishing shots, the weight of them and overall cinemotaghy and mise en scene was specitacouler, representing well the eye of a artist like turner.
these are a few examples of the shots created by the director of photography Dick Pope.
also from this film i was inspired by turners artwork redirected in a film. I've always loved turner as an artist and have in the past wanted to use his style of neo reomantic no formalism in a film construct.
rain steam and speed is a perfect example of a turner piece which inspired me. i love it removal from form and it's use of colour and movement to create meaning and passion. i also like the dual focus created in this piece with the out of "focus" parts between them. i know this isnt really focus but that is what came to mind when viewing it.
i feel like i could create this kind of style by using very low dof shots with a sharp focus but then taking to shots. one focused on one thing ie the train and the other focused on another ie the boat, then i could layer the shots over each other creating this style shot.
so you can see in this picture the background is out of focus creating this style of blur very similar to that of the turner painting. this is what i want to create.
what i also took from turners work is this idea of light and dark and it's use to methphroically show the good and bad in humianty. this is something i want to represent in my film via the movement of the sun over a day. each shot showing a diffrent mamount of light and shadow. showing this nature of light and dark in the morality of our lives.
i then started thinking about the power of the landscapes turner painted. why they seemed to have such a human element even though they are just landscapes with objects. why did we feel so much connection to them.
the fighting temeraire is a good example of why we have connection to them. these pieces are methphroical. they arnt just nice looking the represeent a higher meaning and concept to us. they are conceuptual artwork whilst using the real would to represent it. the old sail ship, in all it's might it taken away by the new steam boat with less diginity and grace but is an upgrad of itself. we know this human feeling. the feeling of getting old, and outdated. live moves on without us. we are dragged away to our end. i call this landscape methaphorical landscaping and that is what i want to do in my film. have the landscape represent something more about the world.
the next step came from me wanting to have someone in the landscape to interact with the methaphorical landscape created to create this represention of the life humans live.
i was inspired by slipnots vermillion video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJl8zo__6jM
this use of stop motion film making is amazing. it creates a disgunted nature with the landscape. creating this idea of us not understanding our place in this universe. our search for meaning and feelings of loss and darkness in our worlds.
i then thought about what i wanted the person to do. they have to have a kind of interaction with the world to give them more of a purpose.
this is the kind of interaction i want. something where the person i creating an diffrence on the world, or atleast notising the methphor in the piece. i will have to work of firstly the ideas for the metphorical landscapes and also the interactions of the person.
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