Do we need a narrative?

NO!

Apparently we don’t… we took a look at some experimental films to get our creative juices flowing for our second video/piece to get us thinking about Evocation (imaginative re-creation – the ability to form mental images of things or events), Atmosphere, Place and Experimentation.

We took a look at ‘Detroit’s Beautiful, Horrible Decline’ this is a great piece in which they let the photos tell the story no need for anything else the photos do it perfectly and really capture the downfall of Detroit well, they show real atmosphere and place in them with no real narrative, the photos do it on their own. Two videos we watched were experimental videos ‘Stan Brakhage – I…Dreaming’ and a clip from ‘Derek Jarman – BLUE’. TBF (To be fair) I didn’t really like either of them or any of the videos we watched that day but they did influence me for my second video/piece when it came to Stan brakhage’s I… Dreaming I really liked how he had physically scratched words into his film, I think it’s a really good effect and I want to do it to my own video but I don’t film on physical film so I could just edit words in and maybe use a font so it looks scratched in but that’s something I will need to look into while editing. While watching Derek Jarman’s ‘Blue’ clip I liked the thought of at some point during my video the screen could go black but the sound remains on as I thought it really works even without image you still know what’s going on and you can still follow the narrative or what’s happening.

So my idea that came from watching these videos was that during my split screen journey to university the screen will suddenly go black (or maybe a colour instead of black still need to decide on that) with the sound/audio then editing in words to just pop up on the screen like there scratched in occasionally, then this will just stop and the normal video will commence but all of this is just ideas until I finish filming and start editing.

I also watched some of the ‘Super Mario’ game clip which I just thought was retro and cool 🙂 and also I had seen ‘La Jetee’ in college and thought it was really cool the idea of it is really smart we also watched ’12 Monkeys’ in college which is inspired on it and that’s really good too bit of a mind boggler but good 🙂