1 Minute Film, Inspiration and Ideas.

During the making of my one minute film i was inspired by Oskar Fichinger, i liked especially an optical poem, the use of colour and sound was mesmerising. I wanted to make something that was deconstructed but still aware of itself as a film, i liked the idea of using only colour and sound, the next problem i face was how would i do this without editing the image and only using in camera sound, i decided to look around my house for items that i could use within the film as i was working on a budget, i found a pack of sparklers some paints and some balloons. I had originally wanted to use paint dripping into a bath using a mirror underneath to reflect the image, but i learnt that some students who did experimental in first semester had done similar things so i wanted to try something different. I filled the balloons with paint and water, I had originally tried throwing them at a wall outside of my house that had graffiti on it already, but the balloons were pretty hard to burst. I decided to pin them to a board with a sheet over. I wanted to add an extra dimension to the sound so i decided to use sparklers to pop the balloons. To be honest this didn't go as planned and when i filmed the piece i decided not to leave the balloons in shot, which was a fatal mistake as the result was a dribble of paint rather than a stream, and the sparklers just sounded like white noise without them in shot for the audience to know what it was. There were some parts of the one minute that i liked, such as the paint droplets coming down onto the white sheet, it looked asif they came down in slow motion. I struggled with the obstructions within the piece. It is something i would like to do again as it is only a formative mark.