Scotty Doesn't NO.o | Each Image Has Its Own Story To Tell

01.08.2012

category: Film/TV
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Intro (concept) - "Close your eyes, what do you see?"

The Place: Don't Look, Just See. from Scott Huang on Vimeo.

Close your eyes while watching this
*Turn your lights off.
*Be in a dark room.
*Full screen

Neglect the visuals and focus on what you see.

A short clip I made last semester, might be a good starting point of our documentary. It works perfectly when it's presented on big screen in the theatre!

4 Part Experiments! (Theme: Seeing)

I think the way to execute our (still-up-in-the-cloud) project is by carrying out different kinds experiments that focus on the various way of seeing! Let the experiment speaks for itself rather than having us explaining or narrating our ideas.

We have these 4 conceptual ideas that explore at the different notion of "seeing" and the way the world around us is being "perceived" [Sarlo and Thao summed it up perfectly ]

Segments:

The ability to see when one cannot
The ability to see what is around us
The ability to see what cannot be seen
How are we been perceived and seen?

I think having 'experiments' opened up all kinds of possibility to our documentary, we may already have an idea or a direction of what we want to tell, but the essence of documentary lies within the elements of exploration and chance not the way its narrative is been crafted! We can't craft stories for our documentary like the way we did with out short film last semester, we have be like scientist designing experiments as well as being the artists using the medium/ tests to convey our ideas! We have to just go with the flow

I think this piece can be quitte visual dominant as well as being sound driven. I think our aim is to design different kinds of spaces (soundscapes/landscape) and place our participant in the area and document their experience.

I break our experiments down to

[Where] - Recreating a place

Maybe a white empty room with sound playing from different directions trying to simulate a place (construction, outback, grunge, quite study room, street, coffee, or maybe just some interpretive soundscape, doesn't necessary have to be an actual place)
Maybe a room filled with different kind of writings on the wall describing different objects in a place
Maybe a projector, projecting different images on walls inside a room
Or simply a chair in the middle of a street or somewhere rural, top level of a car park?

[Who] - The participents

A blind person - might be good for the soundscape and projector experiment, documentent what he/she sees and what he/she feels. <Where> 'Soundscape-room' and 'Projector'
A blind-folded person - could be a good contrast to the blind participant. <Where> 'soundscape-room' 'projector' or even 'outdoor'
Young/adult/old people - <Where> 'font room' 'soundscape-room' 'outdoor'
A painter? instead of filming him inside the room, we can have him drawing his imagination of the space <Where> 'soundscape-room' 'font room'
Sarlo's cousine who has synesthesia - <Where> 'soundscape-room' 'font room' 'outdoor'

* while they describe their experiences, in post-edit, we can try to have animation/ moving images of what they 'see' overlaying the room they r situated within, adding to the aesthetic and narrative (maybe)...

[Last segment]

Rukas has this cool idea of turning the entire thing around by looking at the way 'we' are being seen or perhaps eager to be seen (the way individuals are submerged or stood out in the crowd). I have this idea of shooting at a scene (static shot) having one of our participant (or all) walking/ mixed inside the crowd (Pedestrian -crossing, tran station, shooting from a very high building), the camera does not try to search for our participant, instead we have his voice-over, talking, let the audience tries to spot the participant. I think it will be a cool way to end our documentary!! KEWLLL.....

If you got time, Check out (Kat, Michael, Sunniva and I)'s Integrated Media Korsakow documentary last semester:

"Bright Sprinters" documentary on the luminous lights in the city I miss them so much!!!