MAPS AND NETWORKS: Brainstorm

As I was sitting in the lecture today a few ideas sprung to mind. Firstly, after watching
I thought of the idea of including the sound of voices alongside my video, of people saying irrelevant but relevant things, alongside music also. I definitely would like to include music into my video, interweaving diegetic sounds and music with the visuals.

I also had the idea in this lecture today of going big size wise with my installation piece, having multiple big screens or projecting over a building or something big i.e. a big object alongside, as I have said before, atmospheric or dynamic music and sounds. These ideas beckoned me after watching this studio demo reel video by Light Harvest:

https://vimeo.com/246203328

In terms of concepts, I was thinking of potentially looking at a person's perception of the world, by showing their point of view as if they're existence is merely used to be a watcher and aider of others. For example, showing the perspective of someone working in a supermarket, who is meeting and greeting people all the time, or in a bar where the bartender has to attend to every customer's needs and in some ways forget about theirselves in order to fulfil everyone's needs. I would be interested to show how this can affect someone's mental worth and view of themselves. This idea's legs also began from looking at Marc Isaac's 'Lift' where people start talking to him telling him about their lives. This is the same sort of way people treat shop assistants and workers who are there to primarily aid customers and make customers' day better. I find it interesting that people like to confide and discuss about themselves with strangers just to get things off their chest and to make other's days feel even just a bit better. This then branches out into the concept of human communication and connection.

A way in which this communication aspect would interlink well with the overlay of diegetic sounds of voices is by recording people speaking about normal things they would speak about to strangers like a shop assistant. These voices could play and linger around while the video plays on screen, this could even portray how these strangers stories linger in a bartender's/shop assistant's mind long or short afterwards. This relates to my own experience as working as a bartender and shop assistant, I speak to people every day, even if I don't start the conversation, others speak to me, confide in me, retell stories etc. I think, in general, I am a person who prefers to watch people interact around me than actually partake in conversation and interaction. I don't like to interfere or interrupt with it. Therefore I let others entertain and fill a part of who I am as a person.

Those who take the time out their life or day to ask or be interested about me fascinates me. It's interesting how connections form with others. This, you could say, connects to the maps and networks idea through how connections form and take place through interaction and intimacy. How one person could potentially interact with others in certain ways in order to feel something better within themselves.

I also thought of the concept of filming abstract movements or actions of things personified as feelings and thoughts.

mental state -
depression
anxiety
cold
water
blue
fragile
thin
ice
skin
naked body
beige
flowing
waves
current
connection

Another idea which has sprung to mind also is the idea of disconnection, which is the opposite of the other ideas I have mentioned. The route I would take is how people can disconnect themselves from the earth around them. People disconnect themselves in many different ways and for many different reasons. I could still use the diegetic sounds of peoples voices and warp them in ways i.e. how the voices in these sound like -

I want to include music, potentially warped and experimental, around these voices too. Visually I still want to incorporate multiple screens (minimum 3 screens), inspired by John Akromfrah's 6 screen 'Purple'. Another thing I liked about this piece is how some titles were included in between the landscape shots that had an entire purple background with just a tiny little white title in the middle. I liked how since the screens were so big and there were multiple of them, the purple lit the entire room. This got me thinking about lighting and how I want to incorporate it into my piece. I would say my piece would be a sound video installation. Another option is to make it interactive by asking questions to the viewer through titles or deciding to take the opposite route of sending a message and vibe to the viewer through aesthetics, visuals and sound.