sixteen by nine moving image brief

We were given a brief which the subject of London as the catalyst, to create a shirt film about anything we creatively could imagine.

We mulled over ideas and nothing seemed to catch our attention or make us passionate. We went on a few a trips around London in the early stages to get some inspiration from the city. We visited Tower Hill, Old Street and Shoreditch. 

An idea from the group was to have ambiguous shots of the landmarks of London. I instantly didn't like the idea but have time for it to be explained and the reasoning behind it. The concept would be to have a different viewpoint of the famous spots of London and see it from a different perspective. Focusing on the textures and noises and close up shots rather than detailed landscape images. 

Another idea from my group were A-Z of London, explaining the sights around London with the first letter of the object. We thought of probable artistic ideas for it and went out to try and get some images of places we could film but nothing really stood out to us or made us passionate. 

In my own time, I looked at some short films for inspiration and came across one called Phaseone - Sugar
 http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2012/04/25/phaseone-sugar/

What I loved about this short was that it was so simply yet engaging. We as humans love to see and hear dialogue, the mystery of what happened before the open dialogue lets the mind run and start to imagine the situation previously. I wanted to use this style and develop a narrative of a person that has to be happy on the outside to please everyone and keep a positive outlook althought they are hurting from something eternal. somewhat a juxtaposition narrative. where wer see the character doing positive things, playing with a child, having fun with friends, doing normally things that should be positive, but taking the messages come up on screen and have them be talking about the true feelings in conversation with someone else.