Blog 5

The experimental shooting yielded some interesting results, the camera doesn't work so well reflecting widespread light from the static screen in the room but in close-ups I was able to get some interesting illumination. In addition the shots of the static itself can be used to frame the idea as a product of the screen itself.

At the moment my editing on the pilot is progressing nicely, I've decided to restrict the idea to the initial shots off myself in the room and two films. This is due to the extended length and continuity issues that including three films would result in, this would be fine for the complete film but for a short illustrative pilot it's not required. The themes and ideas I need to demonstrate are evident just from the two. For this pilot I've picked out two prime examples of how modern screen culture is self-consuming, Hot Fuzz and Beavis & Butthead.

Hot Fuzz of course makes regular and explicit use of film references, the act of watching Point Break and Bad Boys 2 influences the entire second half of the film.

Beavis and Butthead's entire lives revolve around watching, commentating on and imitating television. With the chain idea of me watching Hot Fuzz and them watching Beavis and Butthead and Beavis and Butthead looking to TV for direction we get an explicit theme of watching not just casually but as a way of thinking.