Footage Ideas

These are some of the initial ideas that I came up with, which I originally did as a brainstorm in my sketchbook. After doing this and having a discussion of different ideas, which was covered in the unofficial pitch, I found that some of these ideas were pretty literal to the speech.

Field - Colour, Peaceful, Quiet, Still
Beach - Sand, Footprints
Flowers - White/Cream - Lilies, Bright, Colourful, Perhaps have a black and white background and the flower in colour, Perhaps have water dripping off a flower or a leaf
Newspapers
Camera Flashing - Zoom in/focus on camera - make it look distorted
Have loads of Diana images to make one
Church - Perhaps just showing the bottom half of the Church - focusing on the flowers that are around
Pond - indirectly linked with Diana
Use of filters
Try and represent Magic - Perhaps glitter
Try and use words/phrases and represent them in footage
Try and represent the idea of hunting - maybe the use of objects that you find out an about, distort and make them look abstract, use silhouettes
Weather - Rain - Puddles
Candles - Tea lights, having lots of tea lights burning, could zoom in on them and maybe lose focus, focus on the flame
90's music - Sad
Road Signs - Signs which show direction - Ties in with the section of speech 'Looking for a new direction'
Perhaps the use of different types of lighting - Candles, Camera flashes
Incorporate abstract images of Diana - or just edited images of her, Perhaps have it at the end
Blending two clips together - Perhaps having footage of a pond and footage of candles - in the background have the candles and on top of that have the pond - Have the candles burning in the background throughout the minute
The film could be in black and white

I struggled to get round the idea of the word ‘literal’ and I found it hard not to think literal about my ideas. Thinking outside the box was a pretty new thing for me, due to the fact with previous projects I needed to stick solidly to the requirements of the brief and what the client wanted. However with this project you could have any idea that you wanted, which I’m finding fairly hard to get my head around!