Family Archive Footage Idea

One of my ideas for this project, was to use family archive footage and transform it into a sort of memory game. I have 13 DVDs, and will go through them to chose select scenes and then get my sister and other family members to guess what happens next by pausing the video and each saying their thoughts and then playing it to see who was right. To portray each persons thoughts, i was going to use actors or maybe drawings and then play the footage after and see who was closest, shown in a dream like state or a flashback. I was going to do this about 4 or 5 times, just showing the best few ideas, creating a sort of humorous feel to the piece. For sound, i was going to use a voice over from my family and maybe add some upbeat backing track under the re-enactment portrayals. To extract the scenes from the original DVD, and place them into a new sequence using Final Cut. To do this, ill use the app DVD VOB, which is a stream clip programme, allowing me to take out certain bits and make them into short clips. I will go through the footage, and see what could work in this project.

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After looking through all of the footage from the 13 DVDs, i was disappointed to find it was mainly just holidays and there isn't enough interesting footage to want to continue on with for this project. I don't think it will look visually interesting to try and get a comedic reaction and i don't think it will keep me creatively invested. 

Because of this i will go on to researching into my second idea, based on the mobile phone concept. I have a few different approaches i can do with this idea, and will experiment with them after doing some research and collecting all the props i need to achieve this idea. I think this theme has many great opportunities to practice with different style shots, composition and more importantly sound. I will try different approaches to make sure that the visuals and sound compliment one another.  

Research - Mobile Phone Concept.

For this idea, i was thinking about creating different scenes with the ever growing development of the mobile phone. One idea i had was showing from the 80's through to now, but showing how very few people in the beginning had a mobile. So for example, having someone sitting on the phone and people around that person reading the newspaper and actually doing things in real life. Then, as we expand through the generations, show how more and more people have been consumed by the device, showing in pictures and possible moving image, how it has become a must have fashion accessory. The key things to have in these picture sequences would be the mobile phones, which i will collect especially for this project, and also styling of the model in the attire from the decade, representing how quickly the mobile upgrades in comparison to the fashion industry.

So for this idea, if i chose to go ahead with it, i will be looking at:

• Mobile phones; 80s to the modern day
• Fashion; 80's to the modern day
• Locations that suite what i am metaphorically trying to express through images 

The development of the mobile phone, and screen progression.

     

Mobile and fashion in the 80's    

'Clueless' Mobiles and fashion in the 90's

Celebrity fashion, jewellery and a mobile, Early 2000's. Becoming more of a fashion item.

2005, Paris Hilton, Fashion and Mobile.

2010, Victoria Beckham and Eva Longoria, Ad for LG, flip and slide mobiles.

2012, Selfies on Iphone4s, Blog for fashion.

2014, Fashion and Mobile, Selfies and the Iphone5c

2015, Phone cases, and decorating the Iphone5s, casual fashion.

What i want to portray is how slowly everyone is reliant on the new upgrades on mobiles to keep up with the fashion and decorate it so it suites their persona's. In these series of images or moving images (or both) ill show how it went from one person having a phone, to a few, to everyone. For this i will look at modelling sites such as modelmayhem.com and purpleport.com, who will fit in with what im trying to achieve, and increase the models from one to loads to show how it has affected all of us, and dress them suited to the era im trying to achieve.