hears my proposal for a documentary im working on for my production class, tell me what you think
Motion Picture
A film by Taylor McIntosh
Produced by Ted White
Project Synopsis
This experimental documentary entitled Motion Picture is an exploration within the concepts and differences between moving cinema, still photographs, and ones own eyesight. The film will also explore the rules and problems of cinema and typical Hollywood paradigm of storytelling.
Project Summary
Motion Picture will use experimentation with the camera to act as the eye of the viewer or audience. As a tribute to some of what may be the first prototypes to documentary film, Berlin and Man with the Movie Camera, the city and life around it will act as the subject in order to turn a large complex thing into one simple character. Conflict will be created through the clashing of perspective and reality due to the camera acting as the eye of the viewer. This conflict will reside within restrictions of a captured image from the eye as a camera, and the reality beyond. This reality of perspective within film and photography is far different and restricted than that of ones own vision, due to the lack of free thought within a camera. Snow skiing in an urban territory will be used to explore this idea of perspective vs. reality due to the sheer fact that it is not normal for a cityscape to see the likes of skiing.
In order to exploit the concepts of one person to a large group of people, no one is going to be interviewed or investigated. The camera will act as the only investigator for the audience to witness what is happening. Motion Picture will feature no archival footage or talking heads either, only portraits of a city and the people within.
The film will encompass characteristics between experimental and avante garde films. As far as an easily seen story, there will be none. This film is being made in order to get answers to personal questions such as, why films can’t just be about concepts, why must they incorporate stories? As the director I understand that the stories I create will not awe any audience; in order to interest my viewers I will show them unique ideas and concepts that I have thought about film, photography, and vision. While doing this I will not include myself in the film; the audience will not hear my voice or even hear personal words like I, me, or my. The style of the film will be mostly poetic with hints of observational documentary, also as a tribute to older “city-symphony” style films. The project will use these common poetic characteristics:
1. Not using continuity editing
2. Exploring associations and patterns that involve temporal rhythms and spatial juxtapositions
3. Opening up possibilities of alternative forms of knowledge to straightforward transfer of knowledge.
For the soundtrack I will use music from all around the world in order to intertwine the diversity of a city into the film. In order to explore concepts and differences between photography and moving pictures (cinema) I will place picture frames in between the camera and its subject as if the viewer was watching pictures that move. For the last scene in the film I plan to take this concept one step further and build different sections of an art gallery. I will build this to fit my needs of carrying the gallery around to different places within the city, where I will gather friends to act as spectators in a real gallery that are watching real moving pictures. Holes will be cut out of the gallery walls and frames will be placed over the holes to add a sense of realism to this building.
As far as an audience for this film, it will appeal to everyone who is open-minded. To narrow this audience artist and filmmakers will be key viewers. I plan to distribute the film online at little to no cost on the Internet, in order to get my work out into the world.
Motion Picture
A film by Taylor McIntosh
Produced by Ted White
Project Synopsis
This experimental documentary entitled Motion Picture is an exploration within the concepts and differences between moving cinema, still photographs, and ones own eyesight. The film will also explore the rules and problems of cinema and typical Hollywood paradigm of storytelling.
Project Summary
Motion Picture will use experimentation with the camera to act as the eye of the viewer or audience. As a tribute to some of what may be the first prototypes to documentary film, Berlin and Man with the Movie Camera, the city and life around it will act as the subject in order to turn a large complex thing into one simple character. Conflict will be created through the clashing of perspective and reality due to the camera acting as the eye of the viewer. This conflict will reside within restrictions of a captured image from the eye as a camera, and the reality beyond. This reality of perspective within film and photography is far different and restricted than that of ones own vision, due to the lack of free thought within a camera. Snow skiing in an urban territory will be used to explore this idea of perspective vs. reality due to the sheer fact that it is not normal for a cityscape to see the likes of skiing.
In order to exploit the concepts of one person to a large group of people, no one is going to be interviewed or investigated. The camera will act as the only investigator for the audience to witness what is happening. Motion Picture will feature no archival footage or talking heads either, only portraits of a city and the people within.
The film will encompass characteristics between experimental and avante garde films. As far as an easily seen story, there will be none. This film is being made in order to get answers to personal questions such as, why films can’t just be about concepts, why must they incorporate stories? As the director I understand that the stories I create will not awe any audience; in order to interest my viewers I will show them unique ideas and concepts that I have thought about film, photography, and vision. While doing this I will not include myself in the film; the audience will not hear my voice or even hear personal words like I, me, or my. The style of the film will be mostly poetic with hints of observational documentary, also as a tribute to older “city-symphony” style films. The project will use these common poetic characteristics:
1. Not using continuity editing
2. Exploring associations and patterns that involve temporal rhythms and spatial juxtapositions
3. Opening up possibilities of alternative forms of knowledge to straightforward transfer of knowledge.
For the soundtrack I will use music from all around the world in order to intertwine the diversity of a city into the film. In order to explore concepts and differences between photography and moving pictures (cinema) I will place picture frames in between the camera and its subject as if the viewer was watching pictures that move. For the last scene in the film I plan to take this concept one step further and build different sections of an art gallery. I will build this to fit my needs of carrying the gallery around to different places within the city, where I will gather friends to act as spectators in a real gallery that are watching real moving pictures. Holes will be cut out of the gallery walls and frames will be placed over the holes to add a sense of realism to this building.
As far as an audience for this film, it will appeal to everyone who is open-minded. To narrow this audience artist and filmmakers will be key viewers. I plan to distribute the film online at little to no cost on the Internet, in order to get my work out into the world.
