I wanted to stay away from more obvious forms of journeys and look at it from a different perspective. I have been thinking of a few ideas, but they are only very rough and I am currently not exactly sure of how to achieve the final outcome of them. I thought about maybe doing the journey of an idea, similar to The Treachery of Sanctuary by Chris Milk looked at in my Installation Art post earlier, however I failed to come up with anything that I felt passionately about to actually create. I also thought about doing something in association with how when we are young children we may wish we were older and get to do more adult things (such as stay up late etc), whereas when we're older we often dream about being younger and having less worries and responsibilities. I thought I could maybe find some kind of journey and link between the two about how the role seems to reverse and how that switch happens. However I am very unsure of the nature that this would take on. 

My most thought about idea so far has been to do an experimental film based around the theme of anxiety. As someone who does suffer from anxiety quite a bit, I can relate to the process of becoming nervous at something as a journey and how changes occur to and around you as you progress deeper into that state of mind. The film will be originally light, more calm and slow, but as it moves onwards the pacing will get faster, be disorientating, become more chaotic and much more darker until it is almost all black. It will mainly use movement to show how anxiety builds up, such as nervous twitches, shaking, rapid eye movement etc. I also looked into this sort of movement becoming dance like and possibly having some sort of rhythm, but not in a linear or fluid manner. Sound, like the pacing, will start off more calm and collected but transitions into much more uncomfortable tones, such as scraping a chalk board, as well as quick uneven noises. I also want to make a focus of the sound of the movement carried out by the actor / dancer and put a great emphasis on this, such as tapping your fingers nervously on a desk. I'd also like to use the technique of overlaying video clips over one another, such as that we saw from Measures of Distance by Mona Hatoum in our first screening, to give off an effect of things building up and make things more chaotic and overbearing. Basically I want the final outcome to give off a sense of panic, irritability and a feeling of losing control. What I was also interested in doing, was finding someway to gradually enclose / make the audience feel as if they are being trapped as they are watching the film. For example, at the beginning they would be watching it in an open environment but as the film progresses the room or area they were standing/ sitting would appear to be getting smaller, giving off that sense of being trapped and on edge, which makes them relate to the uneasiness of the film. 

Research on Style of Film

Lighting and Cinematography

Editing/ Pacing

Memory by Design

  I have posted about Memory by Design last year, but for it's sound rather than editing (however I ended up not using a similar soundscape). This time I want to do an similar quick paced editing style, showing briefly different nervous moments in a person.