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This still of the screaming nanny from Eisenstein’s silent film Battleship Potemkin is what Bacon described as a key catalyst for his work
After looking into both influences for Bacon’s Head VI, I gathered more of a background of the piece itself which gave me inspiration to a few ideas and themes we could use in our film.
- Religion
- Violence
- Isolation
- Pain
- Hierarchy
I am going to do further research into the painting and more specifically the artist himself, so I can get a more detailed insight into who he was and why he painted the ‘Head Series’. I am also going to look more into the ideas and themes mentioned above and create a few flash fictions to see how different story lines would work.
Basic Info
- Also known as the Golden Age of Italian Cinema
- It is a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class
Conventions
- Filmed on location; mostly in run down cities as well as rural areas (we used parks that weren’t modernised)
- Frequently using non-professional actors
- Italian neorealism films are influenced by economic and morals conditions of post World War II Italy
- Exploring the themes of everyday life, including poverty, oppression, injustice and desperation
- Are more observational than participatory
– meaning; the audience are meant experience lives through the characters eye thoroughly
Observational mode (relevant notes)
- The films aimed for immediacy, intimacy, and revelation of individual human character in ordinary life situations.
- Observational documentaries attempt to simply and spontaneously observe lived life with a minimum of intervention.
Historical Context
- Neorealist films often took a highly critical view of Italian society and focused attention upon glaring social problems,
- such as the effects of the Resistance and the war, post-war poverty, and chronic unemployment.
- It was said that the film studios were unavailable after the war, neorealist directors shunned them primarily because they wanted to show what was going on in the streets and piazzas of Italy immediately after the war
Relevance to our film
- Explores everyday life (structure)
- Observational style
- Used non professional actors
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism#Characteristics
https://collaborativedocumentary.wordpress.com/6-types-of-documentary/
http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Independent-Film-Road-Movies/Neorealism-HISTORICAL-ORIGINS-OF-ITALIAN NEOREALISM.html#ixzz3t8TBiljmml#ixzz3t8T1VMyM
Why I woke up this morning feeling deflated of life, you’ll never understand. It’s like when you wake up from a nightmare and you feel the sense of relief. Relief that the nightmare is over and you can start your day. I feel like everyday I’m waking up into a nightmare.
As the day goes by, and the sun rises, there is no happiness, instead I feel the heat pressed up against my skin and I can feel myself burning into ashes.
You walking away from me isn’t what hurt the most. It’s the fact that I gave you everything… and how you slowly and carelessly destroyed it.
Growing up in a crowd full of strangers where I don’t speak they’re language and I can’t communicate, it seemed as though I was the stranger. The odd one out.
I was scared when they punched, sad when they pushed and terrified when they kicked, but the worst feeling came later when I was by myself, and all I felt was loneliness and rejection. I didn’t belong. I didn’t fit in.
It’s late at night and I’m sitting here alone waiting, waiting for you to respond, text me back, but I know you won’t. You won’t because you mean much more to me than I do to you.
These emotions are from someone who’s been hurt so much; I can finally say, “I’m used to it”. It’s almost like a war where you either win or die trying but I know the chances of winning are impossible. I don’t know what hurts the most… Saying something and wishing you hadn’t, or saying nothing and wishing you had. Being brought up thinking that the worst thing in life is ending up alone to find out that it’s ending up with people who make you feel alone. This numb feeling comes from waking up to black and white, walking outside and feeling no wind and eating a meal that tastes of nothing. Being alone in a crowded room feels like there is no hope left.
Everything I do each day feels like I’m just going through the motions. Feels like I’m waiting for something to come, something to rescue me.
If only you knew how it felt. How it felt to be alive but not be able to live.
I’m tired of being disappointed, so I’m just going to accept that there is no dawn of something good. I’m not looking for sympathy, just for acceptance as I’m trapped in a world that judges me at every turn.
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. I feel like I’m one of them.
I wish I never woke up in the first place.
| SHOT NUMBER | PICTURE | AUDIO | LOCATION |
| SHOT 1 | Camera panning shot of bath then a cut in shot of bloody hand’s scar and ring. Fade screen to black | Running tap water (diegetic sound) | Voj’s house |
| SHOT 2 | Long shot of John getting up revealing portrait behind him | Tense score (non diegetic sound) | Voj’s house |
| SHOT 3 | Extreme close up shot of a suicide letter/note | Narration by John explaining the situation (Non diegetic sound) | Voj’s house |
| SHOT 4 | Close up shot of different facial emotions by John | Narration by John reading his letter (Non diegetic sound) | Voj’s house/outside |
| SHOT 5 | Cut in shot of John’s thumbs texting and of the conversation on screen. With camera alternating between close up shot of John smiling and the previous shot of his phone screen. | Clicking sounds of the phone keypad (diegetic sound) | Voj’s house |
| SHOT 6 | Long shot of John having lunch at a table on his own | People talking (diegetic sound), which then turns into narrative of John reading the letter (non diegetic sound) | Hub canteen |
| SHOT 7 | Mid shot of John in the queue at school canteen, with the rest of the queue out of focus | Narration by John explaining how he feels like an outcast | Hub canteen |
| SHOT 8 | Close up of John getting something at a vending machine | Sound of the vending machine/Narration by John | Ellen Terry |
| SHOT 9 | Medium shot/over the shoulder shot of John walking while a friend walks past saying hey to him | Johns friend saying hello/Narration by John | Outside |
| SHOT 10 | Close up of John looking in the mirror, brushing teeth, touching his face | Sound of John brushing his teeth/tap running/Narration by John | Voj’s house |
| SHOT 11 | Birds eye view shot/medium shot of John in bed staring at the ceiling | Narration by John | Voj’s house |
| SHOT 12 | Medium/tracking shot of John walking through the park | Narration by John | Gosford Park |
| SHOT 13 | 360 shot of John talking to himself | Narration by John | Voj’s house/town centre/outside |
| SHOT 14 | Close up/extreme close up of John smoking | Narration by John/sound of a cigarette burning | Voj’s house/outside |
| SHOT 15 | Extreme close up a clock | Sound of the clock/Narration by John | Voj’s house |
| SHOT 16 | Close up of John opening a letter | The sound of the knife opening a letter | Voj’s house |
| SHOT 17 | Close up of the window while its raining outside | The sound of rain | Voj’s house |
| Date | Time | Location | What? | Who? |
| Wednesday 25th | 10:00 | Wojtek’s house | Filming | Everyone |
| Thursday 26th | 10:00 | Ellen Terry | Filming | Everyone |
| Friday 27th | After lectures | Ellen Terry | Meeting – Presentation | Everyone |
| Saturday 28th | All day | Lucy’s/Jodie’s | Editing | Lucy, Ciaran, Jodie |
| Sunday 29th | All day | Lucy’s/Jodie’s | Editing | Lucy, Ciaran, Jodie |
| Monday 30th | 13:00 | Ellen Terry | Meeting – Presentation | Everyone |
| Wednesday 2nd | 12:00 – 14:00 | Library – 3rd Floor | Practise Presentation | Everyone |
| Thursday 3rd | 12:00 – 13:00 | Library – 3rd Floor | Practise Presentation | Everyone |
| Friday 4th | Morning | Ellen Terry | PRESENTATION | Everyone |
- Locations – Ciaran
- Props – Lucy
- Actors – Jodie
- Script – Wojtek and Dhani
- Shooting Script – Kennedy
Filming Team
Kennedy, Dhani, Wojtek
Editing Team
Ciaran, Jodie, Lucy
A story exploring the emotions of a homosexual, as he battles with his thoughts throughout the film, as he feels isolated and alone in society.
JODIE SIMONE 
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