Monday 11 October 2010

24 Hour Film Project : 'Stairs To All Floors'

Despite being fresh-faced and looking generally lost most of the time, Animation and Media Art students were thrown together and given a challenge - to create a short film within a 24 hour period.

Working alongside three of the Media Art students, I helped plan, film and edit a short film which showed a character's first day at Duncan of Jordanstone, through a point-of-view perspective. The emphasis was on the lack of sign-posting and direction within the art college, and building pace as the character gets more and more lost, achieved through lots of quick cuts between segments which gradually got faster and faster.

Whilst planning this film, we discovered lots of old signs and directions which helped add to the overall sense of confusion. One sign, which showed the words 'Stairs To All Floors' became the title of our piece, as it seemed most oddly placed - nowhere near stairs, and not pointing to anything useful, emphasizing our film's message.

Overall, we were happy with the result, although we did not have time to use the additional recorded audio. We were planning on building up the layers of noise to match the pace of the video footage, but 24 hours was not a huge amount of time to create a masterpiece...

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