Monday, October 26, 2009
treatment!
My film essay, entitled CMNCN looks into the deevloution of written communication. I plan on using still shots and scrolling shots, along with tonal music that I'll create to create the movie. First, I look at what happened to the written word. It begins with a visual timeline, moving from pages classic literature to twitters and texts. The former will be narrated, people reading the pages being shot. It will overlap as the time goes on, eventually ending with the sound of clicking keys once we reach the age of twitters and texting. Next, I've shot rows of old, dusty library books with copyrights dating no later than 1940 as a beginning shot, over which I'll have a narration. Then, I begin to look at why this deevolution has occurred. This will feature shots of groups on phones, on laptops, etc. with a voice-over of student interviews about who is to blame. In the end, it is left for each of us to decide who is to blame; I'm hoping to get some found footage of book burnings to use as an ending of sorts.
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"tweets", not "twitters". dang girl, get with the new era of communication. :)
ReplyDeletebut seriously, this is legitttttt. i am afraid to post mine.
very interesting idea! I don't really see why the book burnings are related though, just because that was more of a question of censorship than it is of language and how we speak.
ReplyDeletemuy bueno idea. kind of reminds me of bradbury's fahrenheit 451 where the wife listens to that ear piece thing all the time.
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