Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Fantasy Boy and Undependent, Avant-guard, Experimental Lo-fi (Emerald Reels 1999)

'If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.'
Soren Kierkegaard

According to the aforementioned source, this is when a film is filmed to represent an artistic expression without having planned or scripted or have any structure pre planned. This is often done by a low-budget production. The aim of this was to make good films opposing to Hollywood blockbusters.

The norm for main stream filming is to have a plan for everything and use that plan throughout the filming time. Trial and Error is uncommon as a filming or editing method.

So how does this relate to Fantasy Boy?

When we filmed, we made a rough storyboard of what we would like to produce however, in practice we discovered that sudden inspirations can be better or more appropriate to our music video. We discovered some of our best ideas through trial and error rather than staying with our storyboards.

Also when we were filming in the Skate park, it was impossible to plan how to film, what to film and where to film from. The skaters could do something, anything unexpected and if we had planned how to film we could have missed it. We found that working spontaneously in the skate park allowed us to get a huge variety of shots. It also meant that we weren't restricting ourselves to what we could film.

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