amyt 2/17/08

ciao well this has been an interesting week. not feeling very artistically inclined lately. i think the honeymoon period of being in florence is over now! sad. not that IM sad, but its just getting to the monotony point. somethings gotta revive me. eventually. maybe itll be the florentines my mapping group and i met down by the river way east of here. that was fun and refreshing.
anyway, regarding the project for tuesday... the movie im getting the main idea from is the graduate. i also thought of using Amarcord which is an italian film....but the idea i wanted to use from both of them is the same. it's about barriers that keep love interests from each other. i know love stories in movies can be lame, but these two are definitely not. in amarcord its more about lust really. theres a beautiful scene/image of huge piles/walls of snow from winter blocking the sexy woman in red from the teen boy who keeps looking for her. the graduate scene im thinking about is the end at the wedding when ben comes to find elaine before she gets married...and yells and bangs on the glass at the church. though the barrier doesnt keep ben from getting away with his lovah, it still makes for a more emotional scene/ending. i feel that in a lot of movies a curtain/barrier/wall plays an important part in telling stories (another idea i had was from the film belle du jour, a curtain divides the man from the catherine deneuve...its quite beautiful, and interesting to see what happens on both sides of the curtain).
my project involves a window...originally just a studio window, but i found a sweet window to use near my house... portable! and i just have to clean it now...
im going to have a drawing behind it and then have a sound element of hands squeaking on glass and pounding. blargh. we'll see how it goes. im not really sure yet. and the reference photos i have are of myself and not a dude, and i wanted a guy (aka dustin hoffman) to be in it, but im having trouble finding enough images...plus i dont have my own camera to use! bah. i am working on that though, i ordered my battery charger the other day. its hard to keep borrowing cameras... anyway. thats it really. i would like to make some films on my own, but i havent been able to yet. ok. yep. see ya laterrrr.