Creative Brief Two - Place and Space
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
“The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.”
From Notes on the Cinematographer, Robert Bresson
The Brief
Knowing how to use Space and Place in your work is important to your development as visual practitioners. Places often create a sense of feeling and emotion, and this week it is your challenge to try and communicate the feeling you get from a particular place or space.
It might be a place that has special significance to you, it might be somewhere where you feel a certain way, but wherever it is you must spend time there thinking about how you can communicate it through visual language. Your task is to create 6 shots that communicate the ‘feeling’ of this space
This weeks Obstructions:
· You only have 6 shots at 10 seconds each
· You must try to evoke a particular emotion
· One of your shots should contain the use of one point perspective
· One of your shots must be influenced by a Photographer/Cinematographer
· It must not be within 500 metres of the university.
· You must think creatively about the title of your work
· You can use natural sounds only. No music.
Examples
Here are some examples to help get you started. Think about what they are doing to you and trying to say- how are you being made to feel? What are you being asked to think about this space or place?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH38QAN80vsChungking Express
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgCejsyS0t8Shining Opening
https://vimeo.com/40005142Asylum, Drew Geraci
https://vimeo.com/10314280Salton Sea Beach, Philip Bloom
https://vimeo.com/40123818Holi, Variable
https://vimeo.com/2822787Pale Blue Dot, Michael Marantz
https://vimeo.com/album/2087230La Burgeseria Collection on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/14074949Dark Side of the Sense, Astray Films
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbGbqRWwC_QDeep Focus Citizen Kane
Uploading your work
Upload it to Vimeo by Sunday 14th October Midnight. http://vimeo.com/groups/cinecollective