Moving Image: SEM 1 - Figure

Project Title: "Interpretation"

Week One: Reading and writing. Unpicking the script. Defining your role.

This project seems like it's more of a challenge than I first anticipated. Our script 'Figure' is rather odd, and if anything slightly confusing. The background basis of it, I think, communicates how technology is moving fast, and how people don't want to be left behind. It starts off with an award ceremony, though we don't know what for- something as a group that needs to be decided on. A workshop is another venue mentioned in the script, where a guy - Stan - is making something small and white, again we don't know what.

From this, we need to interpretate this in our own way and also add an extra scene, making sure we use a wide base of coverage and different camera angles.

Competition: ITS ON

To make things a little more competitive, two groups have been given the same script. Yet, I know we will both make 2 very different movies. The other group who will be making 'Figure' presented some good ideas so we need to get our backsides in gear!

Initial Ideas:

>>Winning an award for being an inventor - what? Something significant to technology?

>>Use of flashbacks(forwards) - in the use of black & white/Sepia to show definition between present/past/future

>>What he is making in the vice in the workshop - weapon/universal remote/his own award

>>Whole event could be serious - a traumatic event has happened, having flashbacks about it all

>>A dramatic insight into how technology could affect us all if it continues to evolve at such a rapid pace