New Ideas/Direction

From editing today, Dan and I have realised that the original idea was very linear and almost narrative based. From the footage we have, we don't feel we can communicate the same idea we had at the beginning. We are going to take a much more abstract feel using repetitions and begin to splice in frames in segments and make the pace of the film much faster using rapid cuts between objects.

We still want the emphasis to be on the colour that begins to seep into the character's life and mindset but we want to do it in a more abstract way, without having to explicitly explain the characters motions to getting there.

When we'd first envisioned the piece, the character was going to be static in most shots and one important shot would be the character's interaction with a different self in a mirror before the colour began to seep in - we also wanted the colour to come from a malleable figurine which would be stop motioned into the character and would trigger the colour transformation. However, the mirror we intended to use was never delivered and the stop motion idea with the time we had and now have left is too complex for the amount of on screen time and it's effectiveness will have, so we decided to change these ideas subtly. Instead, we show the black and white character trapped in the television and the colour balls represent the colour beginning to seep into the protagonist's life. We were going to use the veins stop motion in conjunction with a solid ball object appearing in the protagonist's hand but again, this caused problems when we tried it and the footage of the stop motion was good aside from the lighting which made the shot unusable.