The Idea

When our group first came together for a production meeting, we all had ideas of what films we wanted to make for the experimental.

Tom- A man who suffers with Bipolar and he has a split personality. He had the idea of two different actors portraying the same character, one being his dark character and the other being his normal and happy character. I thought it could be a great subject to explore but I wanted something that had all of our ideas in. the idea had a lot a potential because if we used first person view lights and abstract editing could be added to create a more emotive frame.

Cristie- he had a monkey that he thought would be great focal point for our film. But he didn’t have a storyline or firm idea of how we were going to use it to create something original. I liked the idea of the monkey as the main subject because not only did it seem like a great prop. It also intertwined with the idea I had.

My idea was to personify an object and give it human authority and presence. I came up with the concept of an Apple having a dominant presence.

The final idea was a merge of all of our ideas combining the idea of a mentally insane man who is being tormented by a puppet monkey. By doing this we have all had an equal part with in the initial production development stages of the experimental film. We were planning to use the Sony PD170 but all of them were booked out so we used the Sony Z1. We also planned to film in the dark and use household lights to light up the scenes.