post-production work on the special assignment has begun. kerry has tediously organized and converted many of our audio files, making the process of compiling them a smooth one. we are aiming to incorporate both rural and urban sounds in a cacophony of noise, maybe finding melody somewhere along the way. in the least, we are attempting to explore the varying tempos of different environments and hope to show this, aurally, with our juxtaposition of say, a cow mooing and a city intersection.
we (three-fourths of us, anyway) had a rather long, maybe tedious, but very vital discussion about our main project. i think we are all realizing the only way to make capturing and editing easier is to create some sort of systematic plan. our idea for portraying the "moods" ofberlin is evolving. we came up with some really great scenes that i think will explicate what we are trying to get across. new terms and ideas were thrown around, like "turning points." through talking, we started to wonder how we would transition into new moods and mark that transition. we discussed using music and tinting the film, but most importantly, we developed very specific ideas of what would make a good transition. suddenly we have actual scenes to capture and for me, that makes the whole process of filming seem much more manageable.
from this meeting, we began to wrestle with whether we want to go a more "campy" route (i.e., using celine dion's "all by myself" to convey loneliness) or a more serious, provocative route. i think we agreed that camp would be "easier" (or, cheap, as i see it) and to be taken seriously and try to genuinely move our audience might be a good challenge. i am not sure if we ever resolved which route we would like to go, which definitely bothers me. i would really like to stray away from camp, although fun, and really explore place and the implications of place, even history, on mood and feeling. what do i mean by this? allow me to explain:
one of our moods we have chosen to focus on is personal excitement in the newness and awe of berlin. we plan to develop this highly stimulated mood with fast-paced cuts, a wide variety of stationary and moving shots, following motion and change. to maybe riff off run lola run, i imagine with pieces of the wall still existing it would be provocative to visually reincorporate this symbol of restraint into our excitement scenes as to make reference to a time when it was not so easy to move around this city. this would ultimately show in a sort of preservationist way, this is berlin 2007, the excitement and energy of the city moving beyond the past. this is the best example i came up with to try and convey my idea of bringing place into our film in a more meaningful way. i think what has pushed me toward this train of thought is not wanting to make a movie that could be made in any developed urban city. that is very important for my aspirations of this film.
goals for the rest of the week: finish acoustic movie.
other goals: storyboarding, capturing already planned scenes, think more about place/history and mood.
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