Decided I might play with Number 6. for Image "Create a 5 min silent film based on a small part of every day life"
Taken from the 1921 silent film "The four horsemen of the appocolypse" the 6th best grosing silent film ever, this was the first silent film i ever watched, directed by Rex Ingram. The whole thesis behind these silent films seems to me to be to replace the sound from the film with over dramatics, which isnt really the look I wanted to have if I was to make a small silent film, although i can appriciate the sense of movement the film has, it has lots of dance scenes like the above (a tango in which two men fight over dancing with a woman). It would be nice to kind of invert this and make it something that doesn't have alot of movement, something quite relaxing to watch. It would be interesting to measure the impact of the person viewing without sound.
Really, it would've been wiser for me to look at films I find engaging rather than just popular silent films, a really engaging film for me personally, is Amelie (2001) directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The vivd use of colour and the touching subject behind the film (the concept that one person can change your life) i think is really sweet and compelling to watch. Silent doesn't have to mean black and white.
Things to do/Ideas:
* go out and video what is an important but similarly mundane part of my day, maybe the routine before i go to bed?
* try filming me and then other people too.
-- what if i had two videos being run simultaneously? I could have a really mundane 5 mins vs a really exciting 5 mins?
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