Elaboration

My previous post was somewhat short, so after some work cutting down and reassembling clips I want to use I've realised that despite my own film collection totalling some 420 DVD's I don't have the footage I'd need to create this piece without some significant shooting of my own. As a result I plan to use myself and my living room as an environment through which I and therefore the audience can experience my aims. I plan to create a relationship where I have the illusion of control but what actually comes up is a reflection. I use various remote controls to achieve various results, switching between film and TV audiences who are watching me back, reflecting my own habits. They'll react to me in different ways, inverting the traditional voyeurism of the TV. The remote will also instead of reflecting my own control over what I watch have an effect on me, ie I press chapter skip and I change clothes and the light indicating the time of day has changed. I'll become the unwilling subject of the people I'm watching. This was inspired by actually collecting together each type of clip I was preparing, separating out the audiences from what they were watching. Initially I was going to juxtapose them with footage from other films, and still plan to in short sequences, but the complete separation creates the illusion that they are concentrating their attention on you the viewer.

I've already prepared a shotlist and draft script, I plan to shoot the whole thing this weekend. Further details to come.

Project reevaluation summary

I'll make a subsequent post to explain this shift but I wanted to post a short summary of my current project idea whilst it was fresh-

The project is now composed of clips from films that evaluate the screen/viewer relationship. Using elements such as camera position in a cinema creative an artificial panning motions and montaging together screens to create a counterpoint relationship, creating the theme of lots of viewers watching lots of screens and reacting, none of which relate to the original material they were watching. Towards the end of the film we start to merge screen and viewer, using clips of people looking in mirrors. In the end we have characters monologuing directly to camera, the two aspects have become one.