Film Part 1

For the first film in my piece I will be using 7 reels of 8mm found film footage, which I intended to re-film, re-edit and arrange into an alternative narrative. At the start of this project I decided to buy up numerous (already used) film reels with unknown content. Many of these reels were sourced from local charity shops or purchased inline. It was always my intention to buy and use film that had already been recorded onto. I spent many hours sifting through the footage until I found the perfect source material – a memoir of a 1974 Norfolk holiday from an unknown family.

I decided that the footage would dictate the theme of my work and left the whole thing to chance – it was almost as if the theme chose me! When I saw this footage it inspired me to think about how as humans we have an incessant need to leave a mark. Whether is be a home video, graffiti, social networking, architecture, statues, what have you, we as a race have always left these things behind to prove that we existed. These images were left behind and discarded, but it is still proof that these people existed.

From this point my ideas began to evolve. I decided that rather than using the footage as it was presented on film; I would re-film the reels (via projection methods), whilst incorporating the themes and characters from the footage and reworking the images in order to create a new abstract narrative. During the editing process I intend to incorporate my theme: how we leave our mark. During the re-recording I hope to project my found footage onto man made structures and textures – such as brick walls, buildings etc., which I hope will further reinforce my theme. The footage will then be captured onto a digital format, which will allow the editing process.

Sound –

I intend to create an original score for my piece, which I will be interspersing with wild track recordings. These will be edited, mixed and affected using both decaying and glitch techniques. The distortion and degeneration of the score will increase gradually as the piece moves from part to part, which will again reinforce the decaying theme used within the third section of my work.