Monday, 9 November 2015

FICTION ADAPDATION: VERSE BY VERSE

Trying to break down the poem so that I can write a script from it. Also need to give the poem content in it rather than just a bunch of mismatched ideas floating around.

VERSE 1

Between Haywards Heath and Gatwick, 
there's a trackside clearing deep in scrub 
where thirty red phone boxes stand in an arc.
Their positioning, deliberate and deep in woods,
makes a Pagan ritual: red hoods, torches, prayers
to bygone England, a sacrifice of rabbit.


I'd like to start by going deep into the woods possibly using a time lapse moving forward. Setting early evening when just turning dark. To create the arc of red phone boxes I have looked to recreate the pagan ritual description. I want to have 30 hooded figures in an arc holding flames (torch or candle?). To create this I have looked back in my memory to when I attempted to create long exposure photography by myself during my time on the foundation course at Epsom. 

Use of a lighter and glowsticks
Not particularly safe option, but using a can of deodorant and a lighter
(I can attest to that as I was burned)

 This is obviously the efforts of an amateur and inexperienced photographer, I have really taken inspiration from such shots as these below call it a mood board of imagery:


 This image (above) is eerily similar to what I had imagined even before I had seen this.

These photos are testament to what is possible with photography which is a great source of imagery. However I want to take it a step further and try and do a similar kind of thing with moving image, using a static camera on a tripod.

1 comment:

  1. Great research and ideas here - can you add research re: how to achieve these effects to your journal? Thereafter maybe a test shoot in order?

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