Music Video Idea

"This is a song about... Loving someone who loves someone else."

David Allen Norton's song Burning Monk brings about a sense of young love reprieved and the futility of bing able to do nothing about it. Given the theme of Moose Blood's music video Gum (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld88m2jLhwY), my plan is to shoot majorly during early dusk and evening time in the hear of Chicago.
I plan to focus mainly on a central plotline that streams off into little snippets of my leading character in his natural habitat, unaware of the camera. My hope is to create a love story centered around David Allen's words, focusing on light and the city life of people around my character as if he were a solitary ghost moving about everyone else in their everyday lives. David Allen often mentions the word "sonder (the definition of walking about at a leisurely pace and realizing everyone else about you has their own story)," and I plan to embody that sense through the filming.

French New Wave Film Idea

My thought is to give the sense of monotonous daily life. A girl, or else different people (to establish the generalization of the act on most people's daily lives) get ready for the day, going through the same, continual process (wake up, wash up, get ready, walk, ride, prepare, etc) for the day. However, as the minutiae goes on, the clips become more broken, similar, as if in a drunken haze. We see the establishment of routine in the form of compliance to society's norms. Perhaps at the beginning of the film, the surroundings or the people's clothing is white, becoming tainted with black (or vice versa).  I'm thinking particularly of train clips, everyone on the train looking stagnant and expressionless as the sun drifts by, the people riding going through the motions. Seemingly alone, a singular person begins preoccupying themselves with other means besides what's included in their typical day. Playing the piano, resting against windows to think, and cutting out snowflakes to pass the time.
In the end, the person is doing something involving a sharp edge (perhaps the scissors, possibly tacks), and gets pricked. Upon doing so, they see themselves bleeding a tiny bit, the color of the film (their world) returning back to them at an exponential rate. The film closes, leaving the audience to believe it wasn't until the prick--possibly alluding to love--that the person was able to being feeling and "seeing" things for the first time.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Avant-Garde Thoughts

I love the sense of freedom avant-garde brings, and the ability the artist has to truly expand their horizons and think outside the box on what it means to create art. Within the experimental film format, one has the ability to control all aspects of production in whatever way they please, albeit the video is nonlinear and uses styles, concepts, and artistic creations completely original or unlike what is typically considered "normal." In fact, the only "normal" aspect of avant-garde is that it is NOT normal! However, the likely possibilities of critical analysis, little success, and tight budget are also in the mix, though artists in this medium are readily aware and create their art despite the odds. This being so, artists typically found designing/writing/producing/filming/directing/sound designing/etc experimental films are described as "strange" or "ahead of their time." Personally for me, I enjoy the lighter, more "artsy film" side of avant-garde rather than the up-close-and-personal, dark, and often more crude avant-garde. But this isn't to say I don't thoroughly enjoy the work create as such, and plan to add a bit of up-close-and-personal in my own film, in my own way.

I think this will be a great opportunity to play around with creating a film and score almost entirely by myself (the editing of which I most look forward to), and an incredible intro into the vast possibilities of film!