Visual(film-making)-Audio-Entertainment
Industry
Cinema
The daddy of them
All
Spawned Bastard Children
Television YouTube Hulu/NetFlix
Television is the most Casual
Recreational
Precriber service
addictive
media provider. user.
Crack-Cocaine Marijuana Oxycontin
Is the
most addictive drug Recreational
use Prescription Drug
Cinema
The daddy of them
All
Heroin
One of the most
deadliest Drugs
Choose your Drug of Choice
They are all addictive
Phase 1
Television
Crack-Cocaine; A euphoric feeling.
Inflated sense of self and increased self-importance. Sense of escaping
reality. Intense burst of energy.
Increased focus.
Phase 2
YouTube
Marijuana: Many people experience a
pleasant euphoria and sense of relaxation. Other common effects, which may vary
dramatically among different people, include heightened sensory perception
(e.g., brighter colors), altered perception of time. Others some people experience
anxiety, fear, distrust, or panic.
Phase 3
Hulu/Netflix
Oxycontin: Extreme relaxation. Reduced
anxiety. Pain relief. Sedation, Drowsiness
Phase 4
Cinema
Heroin: Droopy appearance, as if extremities
are heavy, Delusions, Hallucinations, pupils will be constricted
Phase 5
Euphemism: We should veer 180 degrees
from what we structured and substitute it with a milder, indirect, or vague
style and expression, i.e. a contrast. For example, the subject has a moment of
self-reflection, he no longer feels seriously addicted. As a result of this
self-reflection he goes off to rediscover what about cinema he loved. He now
feels more deeply and sees more deeply than ever before. He seeks to capture
untutored vision, i.e. a beginner’s vision; sense of space and light unspoiled
by knowledge and social training.
Poetic Realism/Justice: After a life of
addiction, the subject gets a last chance at “pure cinema,” but it ultimately
ends with death.
In each phase the mise-en-scene and film aesthetics should
mimic the effects of the drug, but representing it as if the viewer is the
addict NOT Camera-head. This perspective should be juxtaposed by the
Camera-head’s perspective. Basically when we are viewing Camera-head’s
perspective he doesn’t reflect any signs of these drug effects. Basically what
I am saying is that, metaphorically we [the viewer] are the ones that are
addicted, but we are actually oblivious to it; while the subject is also
oblivious to its personal addiction. I’m sure there will be viewers saying; why
isn’t Camera-head’s perspective the one that is distorted, why is it our
perspective distorted. It is because Camera-head represents self-reflexive;
i.e. he represents us, we do not think we are addicted. Does this make sense?
Since Cinema is the daddy of these other bastards, in one
way or another, cinema should show its presence during each phase; like a
shadow hovering over the entire project.
Why? For one it characterizes nostalgia, second it exacerbates
the subject’s addictiveness, and thirdly it’s the genome material of this
gigantic entertainment organism.
Example; let’s say the subject is binge watching television
episodes, if we can also project a movie onto the television so the episodes
and the movie can physically overlap each other. Or it can be the shadow of a
movie camera and operator reflected on the wall. Any creative ideas here are
welcome.
Diegetic World
That of Camera-head acting out his addiction
Non-Diegetic World
Found-footage used as a metaphorical and or allegory about
Camera-Head’s world
1- Generally
exhibiting a pessimistic view of society.
2- As a
social-critique
3- Highlighting
conformity, basically behavior that is the same as the behavior of most other people in a society, group
4- A fatalistic
view of the life of the character
5- Marginalizing
We should experiment with creative new ways of trying to
visually and audibly mimic the effects of the drug use. I would rather try to
accomplish this by using non-traditional forms, basically trying to stay away
from using too much software. Fundamentally we are restricting ourselves, but
we can use a lot of the old techniques they used in the past. For example, we
can use Vaseline on the lenses, filters, textured or colored glass in front of
the lens. For movement maybe we can experiment by using different tuning forks,
e.g. touching the camera with different tuning forks to see if we get some type
of weird vibration that embeds itself to the image, something that cannot be
imitated by software. Audibly, maybe we can examine embedding the sound-wave
onto the image; like I was talking about in class. Sound-waves can also
represent colors. For example let’s say the tuning forks do create some type of
weird motion, we can then think about attaching a colored sound-wave, one that
represents the tone and rhythm of the tuned fork.
Andre mentioned that we should explore why people get addicted or what
they exactly get addicted too, basically what is it about cinema that is
addictive. That’s a legitimate issue to persue, but it is also a very
psychologically complex issue. Rather than exploring that avenue, the film
invites the public to reflect whether they feel it’s a legitimate addiction, if
it is, is it healthy or not, do people even see it as an addiction. Are we also
perpetuating and or promoting the addiction by our consumer habits? For
example, a consumer who buys pirated copies of movies, and or downloading
pirated copies. Is he or she creating a new problem that aggravates the
original difficulty? Basically creating an illegal market just like illicit
drug use created an illegal drug market?
The movie is asking these questions.
