Amy Jenkins

Amy Jenkins
Ebb (4 min.)
http://www.amyjenkins.net/video%20pages/ebb.html (her personal website. I couldn’t find her video online.)

Combining an actual object with a projected object was an interesting combination that I thought was worth noting about. Not only was the projection of a woman but there was red water projected in the tub. Having the tub projected full was a really interesting contradiction. In a way the tub was full because of the projection but in reality you could still put something in the tub.

Again I could not find this video online. Having experienced the video online probably would not have done the video justice anyways, so I do not feel like I have missed out on an internet opportunity. From what others have described about the video, a bath tub sits empty. Eventually the tub fills with red water that is projected into the tub. A projected woman comes and sits in the tub and instead of bathing, the red water slowly recedes into the woman to mark a backwards menstruation.

The concept of time is the backwards menstruation. Women experience this pain every month but in this case, the woman is re-experiencing her menstrual pain a second time.

Mako Idemitsu

 

Mako Idemitsu

Hideo, It’s me, Mama (27 min.)

http://www.makoidemitsu.com/ (This is her website. I could not find her video online.)

My reasoning behind choosing this work stems from the interesting concept of a mother who will always see her child as young person in need of mothering. Idemitsu finds a way to show the fear and abandonment that a housewife experiences when her children grow up. It is interesting to see the views of a mother who is having a hard time grasping the fact that her children are no longer children. Instead of dealing with the present, the mother is caught in a never-ending obsession with the past. Her love for the children and because her married life had always been encircled around her children has entangled her in the past instead of moving forward. Basically, this idea of not being able to move forward and constantly dealing with a past is was intrigues me.

I was not able to find the video online but based from the description of the video on Idemistu’s website, the video is a mother who monitors her child constantly via video screen. The child is constantly on a monitor that the mother watches at all times, telling the child how to act and other thoughts of criticism.

In desperation to cling to a past, the housewife will constantly monitor her grown up children through a screen to make sure they are doing the right thing. Two different times are linked in one video. One time is of the child who has grown up and the other time is of the mother who only sees her grown up child as the young child she gave birth to only years ago.

Time Film: Death in Woods.

Time Film from diana hunter on Vimeo.

idea: A girl is walking through the woods thinking of suicide. Moments in time shows the woods empty showing she is irrelevant to that world. It's these moments that show a world of her already gone, nonexistant, already dead. When she stands in front of the camera there will be different dialouge each time.

Time #1 She asks if she belongs
Time #2 she isn't sure of the reality
Time #3 moments of happiness all eventually lead back to here.

Backwards thinking=backwards walking
forwards thinking=forward walking

the quick snaps of time is the anxiety that quickly leads to her death. Death scene has not been added yet. She will be seen dead right before you see her walking forwards in the last scene.

In the end she walks away because death isn't an option, she leaves the consideration behind once again.

I have already decided that the way she is dressed in this rough copy isn't appropriate. Instead her jeans will not be ripped in the second draft, she will wear a normal black shirt, and black shoes. Unless the shoes are not distracting enough.

I think the video doesn't have enough light so it looks a little grainy.

There is no audio yet so don't worry, you're not missing anything.

I'm not sure of what audio to use between dialogue. What audio do you think of when time goes backwards? Do those shoes distract you? Thoughts?

Storyboard

StoryBoard




Just like the video Man With A Movie Camera, I took random shots and strung them together into a video; however, I took all my shots in the woods near my house. I have an ending in mind and the basic idea of girl walking, nothing, suddenly standing, nothing, walking to eventually dead. I cut up a lot of shots and made more interesting moments for the video instead of going with what was basically on my storyboard. (the story board posted is based off the idea I got after cutting up all my shots.)

Basically, this girl (me) will be walking through the woods. There will be two woods areas shot of the girl walking away from the camera on the path and walking to the camera on the path. Randomly there will be shots of the woods with no one on the path. There will also be some random shots of the girl standing on the path. The end will be of her dead on the path. The idea is that this girl is walking through the woods but there are constant breaks in time where she is some where else, dead, standing, or doesn't exist.

I wanted to make a disjointed sound for the video instead of using the sound of the woods. Is there a good way of making disjointed sound?

Audio

Influenced by my own fear of the dark, you will be taken from a state of peace to a moment of creepiness. Are burglars trying to break in? Maybe someone forgot their keys? Either way, they won't be around for long because they never get in.

Ideas of what to do for more creepiness? No speaking noises please. I want it to be like a nightmare where no one has the ability to talk.

Should I make it more calming at the beginning?

What noises make you terrified?