Freedom & Liberty

What is Freedom?

Some say freedom is being able to do what you please when you please simply without anyone stopping you, others say freedom is only achievable when you have something restricting you . Some say that we are all free in this modern society whereas others say the complete opposite. I for one believe that Freedom is a subjective subject meaning it is different for everyone and a lot comes into account when considering what one person would describe freedom as compared to another.

My Project

I thought about different ways freedom can be achieved and out of all one stood out of me and that was that 'Freedom can only be achieved when something is restricting it' that 'something' could vary from; age to a person to a situation. In my project I focused on how a harsh memory can stop an individual from being free to live their life, leaving them with no option but to find an escape to freedom.

Escapes To Freedom

An escape to freedom Is anther subjective concept. Some people say their passion makes them feel free for example dancers, I have heard a number or dancers and performers say that when they are dancing or performing that they free it takes them away from reality and makes them feel free. Another example is nudist in the documentary film 'The Naked Rambler' the main character states how being naked makes him feel free and the whole documentary is basically about him expressing he's beliefs about freedom and protesting that it should be against the law to be naked in public. In my project I focus on the worse escape to freedom possible and that is by death. The harsh reality is that in some circumstances the only way to escape something is by death an example of this is guilt. If an individual is being swallowed by guilt then there comes a stage where there is nothing you can do about it and the guilt will practically such the life from you causing all types of mental illnesses I.e. Depression or schizophrenia. In my project we focus on how the character is so guilty of something he feels there is only one way out...

Research

 

 

 

Title Sequence Breaking Bad (2008/2013)

 

Breaking bad is a television drama series based around the main character Walter White a chemistry teacher who is also a terminal cancer patient, he resorts to producing the class A drug Meth to get money so he can leave money behind for his family when he dies and so he can afford the correct treatment to prolong his death. Walter becomes obsessed with the money he is getting from the Meth business and this results in him facing many dilemma and in the end losing everything apart from some of his earnings. The series holds a lot of mystery so I am going to use this to my advantage in my title sequence.

 

 

Title sequence - Runner, Runner (2013)

 

Runner,Runner (2013) is a Crime, thriller about online poker. It is the story of a university student that is cheated on an online poker game resulting in him losing all his tuition money. He travels out to a place that is unknown to him to find the owner of the website that cheated him and not only does he get he's money back he is convinced to stay and takes a job as a partner of the illegal gambling website. Things start off all good but result as time goes on things get bad and he is face with an epic dilemma.

 

Changes

This is a short film, that we made as a group. We started by creating a controlling idea basically, a idea that the film revolves around which took much thought but in the end we came up with this. 

'You can only change when change is the only route to survival'

After coming up with the controlling idea we had to think of a way to express it. firstly we came up with a story where a boxer is a drug addict and due to his addiction he has destroyed his life; losing his career, his wife and his money. however, once we filmed this story we found that it was a bit too far fetched and decided that we need to simplify the story or how we portrayed it. So, we then came up with the idea of a letter from the boxers wife that tells him why she is leaving him and the film is basically a visualisation of the letter. We decided to stick with this idea because it is very expressive of our controlling idea in the fact that she had to change her life for her survival. 
 

Desception

The overall point of this piece was to show that you cant judge a book by its cover and that people my not actually be as they seem. I come to the decision to creating this piece by looking at Michael Landy's saints alive exhibition and how he deconstructed the saints visually. From this I decided that I was going to attempt to deconstruct personality after much thought I come with the idea of counter-types then this was my way of displaying counter-types.

 

Rational Idea

Today we had to come up with a rational idea. In other words we had to introduce something new to the world and find a way to present this to our classmates later on in the day. In a group we decided to go with the idea that the 02 is really a secret alien base and that the majority of people that work there are aliens and they're aim was to study the human species which they done by conducting experiments on us and cloning us but they're final plan was to take over the earth. We decided to make a short documentary style film including undercover inspections and interviews of staff. Below is the final outcome.

 



 

Lighting

Today we really played with the functions of our DSLR cameras, we played with the Shutter Speed, the F Stop & ISO. We used red heads to allow us to manipulate the direction and intensity of lighting basically give us control of the lighting as well as the camera functions that would allow us to control the amount of light that gets into the lenses. Here are some of my outcomes.