Self Directed Project: Painting For Inspiration

Monday 16 April 2012

Final Film Pitches Chosen

April 16th marked the day where we all found out the chosen pitches from Friday's session. With so many to chose from it was very interesting to see why certain ones had been chosen and some not. A change to the original plan was that only 7 ideas were chosen rather than 8 and two designers would collaborate.

The 7 Chosen images are:

Silvia Sleigh, The Situation Group
 The film would depict a group of artists showing at an exhibition who have been asked to sit for a painting. It will show them in a semi documentary type way coming in and sitting down and interacting with each other. (Influences: 'Snuff' and 'Midnight in Paris')


Mondrian, Composition with Yellow, Red and Blue
 A dance piece with no dialogue, characters would wear blocked costumes of white, black, red, yellow and blue and move around to create the image.

Picasso, Girl with a Dove
 A young girl and boy, playing, sneak into an aviary, the boy is playing with a ball and starts to throw the ball at one of the cages, after a little while it falls to the ground and the dove inside is now dead, the little girl picks up the dead dove and cradles it as in the painting. A bird keeper notices and place a new, live dove in the cage and restores the cage in place. With a Victorian / Gothic feel, (possibly filmed in the Russel Coates museum.)


Francis Bacon, Untitled (Crouching Figure)
 This could either be a studio or location shoot. Inside a dark room a man is looking inside his own mind and is lost in a nightmare. His ego is represented by a sort of nightmarish ringmaster who will have crisp lines and contrast with the darkness of the room. The crouching figure will be naked but then realises he is also the ringmaster character. There will be lots of close ups.
Max Liebermann,
Memorial Service for Kaiser Friedrich at Kosen
 A voice over is heard of an old woman and a young boy talking about a funeral in the woods 50 years ago, cuts away to the boys imagination of the scene where we follow a young girl, dressed simply and of around the 1960's period running through the forest, as the story set to improvisational and rapid jazz music the girl finally finds the funeral party and climbs into the coffin.

Kees van Dogan, Portrait of Dolly

'A ten year old girl sees her mother getting ready to meet someone, she is applying make up as dolly is watching her. A man comes to the door and Dolly's mother greets the man with a kiss, the couple then move to the guest bedroom which is the best bedroom and they proceed to make love. Dolly opens the door and watches for some time which makes her curious and jealous of her mother so she goes to her mothers dressing table and applies make up in the same way that her mother does. As the man leaves he walks past Dolly and looks at him expectantly depicting the above image. The use of colour would be mostly with flesh tones and neutral colours, and feels it should not be viewed as seedy but in a curious and innocent way. This would be set in 1910. '
 
Seurat, The Bridge at Courbevoie
A girl is to spend some time with her estranged father who has been away travelling for most of her childhood. Her car breaks down and she has to spend time with him where they have to talk about their past. There is a very awkward moment spent together where we realise that nothing can make up for the time that was lost between the two of them, the girl leaves in a taxi, alone.

I really most of the ideas that have been chosen as I feel that they have really taken time to consider the back story to the paintings. I always like to look upon paintings as 'photographs', momentary shots of a situation where events have led up to it and things are going to happen as a result of it too.

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