FINAL PROJECT PLAN

-I wanted to demonstrate the act of writing since nowadays, everything is being typed. I think that there's something significant about each hand stroke when one writes and the time it takes to finish writing a certain letter or a certain word. The type of writing I want to focus on is script.

Plan:
-Make a video and edit on Adobe Premiere
-The concept is going to be writing in a diary
-It's going to be black and white

Shots taken:
-In the beginning, someone's going to start writing the date on a blank page
         -going to be filmed from a side angle/ closeup of pen and paper

-Someone writing "Dear Diary" in script
-Someone writing "Dear Diary" backwards to compare the time it takes and the different strokes
         -overlay of both shots 
         -words create an illusion

-Have super close up shots of the pen tip and shots of the person writing it from behind overlaying 
-Since a diary is personal, I don't want to capture everything that the person is writing in the diary so I plan to blur some of the writing and then focus on some words.
         -overlay this with the backwards writing shot
-Have no sounds in the video besides the pen sound 
-End it with all the scenes going backward in fast motion and end it with a blank page to give it a feeling of starting the process over

                                             MOMENTO

This film was extremely intriguing to watch due to its suspense and the way the sequences of the film was were set up in a confusing, but effective way. The film was almost played “backwards” in a way because in order to find out what exactly happened in the beginning, you have to watch until the end to figure it out. In the beginning, it showed the scene where we catch a quick glimpse of Leonard shooting “Teddy” which makes us believe that he was the actual killer of his wife but in the end, Leonard was the actual killer of his own wife. The whole mystery of Leonard losing his memory, trying to remember things and trying to find out who killed his wife was a maze within itself. The way the film was set up was that it would show a scene, and then right after it, it would show the parts leading up to the past scene almost like a cause and effect format, except it was effect and then the cause.It was interesting how the film almost made it seem as if time was actually going backwards instead of forward. 

I found it pretty ironic in this one scene where Leonardo was talking to “Teddy” in a diner-like place and telling him that memories can be distorted and it was all about the facts when in the end, the facts were all lies. In the ending, when Leonard found out about the truth, he forced himself to lie to himself and ended up writing lies on the polaroids so that when he forgot again, he would think that what he had written were all truths.

I found it interesting how the film varied between black and white and colored scenes. The black and white scenes were the parts where Leonardo was in his room and talking on the phone about Sammy Jenkins. I thought that those were actually the most important parts because Leonardo was basically telling a story about himself. These scenes actually confused me because I wasn’t quite sure why Sammy Jenkins was so important until the end and the film had a lot of close-ups on his “remember Sammy Jenkins” tattoo. It seemed that whenever the black and white scenes would play, it was during the time where Leonardo was trying to piece everything together. It was also a mystery when it came to the question, who was he exactly talking to on the phone? Was he actually talking to a police officer or was it “Teddy?”

I felt like this film was a giant circle of events, where it was almost like an illusion. I really appreciate the fact that the film started from the “end” and then ended with the “beginning” because it added to the suspense.I thought that it really played the concept of memory really well because it makes me question about reality and time. 

   Jorge Luis Borges - "Circular Ruins" & "The Library of Babel"

Circular Ruins

This talked about a man known as the “the taciturn man” who landed in a place of an abandoned temple. He had a purpose in which he wanted “to dream a man” and make him real. Labyrinthine was portrayed in his dreams where it was chaotic. It was also shown in the part where restlessness came upon him and started having problems with his dreams. It was a complicated process of dreaming and witnessing a man that he was dreaming where in the end, someone was actually dreaming of him. 

The Library of Babel

This talked about a library that is was labyrinthine in itself since it was made up various paths and rooms. There were thirty-two matching books on five shelves in each wall and the title of each book had nothing to do with what the book was about. It seemed that none of the books made any sense but people believed that there was at least something that explained the origin of the Library and the “human race.” This mission was a failure but the narrator seemed to think that there was a “total book” where that book explained all of the other books.

                           FINAL DOCUMENTARY (NAKED)

In this "fake documentary," my partner, Rhea and I decided to do it on the "Naked Epidemic" which is a virus that is inside the material of your clothes which can make your clothes disappear. We wanted the video to start off by documenting a person's daily routine in which later, finds her clothes missing in her closet. Then, we wanted film the point of view from the television in which we added clips of a surveillance camera video and the news report to make it seem as if it's playing on the television screen. We also added a clip of a fake scientist talking about this virus to add a realistic touch to the documentary. Overall, I think the final product came out pretty successful and I think all the hours spent on filming and editing definitely payed off. At first, I was really NOT looking forward to editing all the clips we had in two days, but I actually learned a lot of effects such as making the surveillance camera clip, doing the transitions and adding still pictures on to the screen. The final result was a combination of using Adobe Premiere and iMovie.

                                      DOCUMENTARY IN PROGRESS 

                                               with partner, Rhea

                                            STORYBOARD

                                            DOCUMENTARY

                                                             Title: NAKED

1)Theme: There is a virus that is in the fabric material of clothes that actually eats up the clothes that can suddenly make a person go naked and can also make all the clothes in his or her closet disappear. This particular situation is called the "Naked Epidemic."
Perspective of theme:
Vision: Have clips of actual incidents happening, news reporters, witnesses, scientists and ultimately show that there's a way to kill the "Naked Epidemic."

2) Opening- Record a normal morning routine of a girl, then showing her opening up the closet and seeing that all her clothes are missing.
            -Have a news reporter talking about this virus
            -Have an actual incident where a person's clothes vanishes while walking on the street
            -Have a witness that saw the incident
            -Have a scientist telling the details of this virus and what they're working on to cure this.
     Ending- Have flashes of newspapers that talks about the "Naked Epidemic"

3) -Establishing shot of the city in the morning, the apartment and the room
    -Girl getting ready in the morning (shooting her bottom half only)
    -Girl calling her friend to tell her that her clothes are missing from her closet (shooting from the
     back)
    -Friend tells her about the virus and tells her to watch the news on tv
    -Close-up on tv
    -News reporter reporting live from the scene where a person't clothes disappeared while walking
    on the street (focus on face)
    -Show the clip of the incident as something from the surveillance camera
    -Shooting different angles as the news reporter and witness talks
    -Shooting different angles as the scientist talks.