My group and I filmed our scene recreation today. After a few back and forths about who should play the eponymous character in the scene, I volunteered. We filmed at UCL East’s Marshgate cafeteria, and rearranged the table set up in order to make it more modern. For props; an iced coffee, a vape, and a phone. The character is a typical unlikeable (at first) gen-z.
As for my final assignment film, I began receiving feedback from different professors about which direction I should head in. I looked at parody instructional videos for my experimental story (for instance German Artist Hito Stereyl) and began attempting to convert it to a screenplay.
Locations needed |
Theatre (Bloomsbury ucl or another ucl theatre booked through drama soc president?) |
Apartment (Room, Toilet, and Balcony) (my flat?) |
Classroom (book a room through a society) |
Streets of London, maybe a park (wetlands tottenham allow you to film for free) |
Characters |
One middle eastern female around age 19-20 |
One male creepy but attractive around age 19-20, any ethnicity |
Equipment |
Lightning equipment, extensive, warm and cool lights, diffusers, etc… |
Multiple cameras (preferably a RED) |
Crew assistance |
Assistant camera |
Assistant writer |
Spark |
boom |
….? |
Furthermore, I considered another experimental film to make this term. A one take of a woman masturbating in front of three mirrors, but her sexual organs, as well as her brain, are alive: Magical realism. It’s a dialogue between all of them. The story is in part inspired by the 2007 comedy horror film Teeth: https://youtu.be/TFi369vCtf8?si=bToNJX3HjkoLSJpa
The latter is about a woman whose vagina physically grows teeth and bites when approached by unwanted people. She is a living example of the vagina dentata myth.
Mid October, and the BFI film festival is still in full swing. A few friends and I have made it a routine to go stand in the queue at southbank to watch a film.
Seeing director Todd Haynes after studying him in class was quite the experience:
One film that stood out in particular was ‘Dancing on the edge of a volcano’, a documentary about the making of a Lebanese film ‘Costa Brava’ directed by Mounia Akl. The film documents her journey as she attempts to make a film in the wake of the August 4 Beirut explosion. Watching it restored my faith in filmmaking as a practice. Having been feeling uninspired recently, it reminded me why I loved films in the first place.
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