Inspiration Day!

Song lyrics - Mr Tambourine Man

On this day we were put into our groups and given different stimuli to create ideas such as song lyrics, poems, news paper clips, art and pictures. Our first idea inspired by the song lyrics by Bob Dylan and Abba is titled Mr Tambourine Man. This idea focused on two central characters. One character is an average Joe, down on his luck living a depressing life. The other is an outcast angel trying to do his penance to get back into Heaven.

The idea of the film would focus on the Joe character being followed by the angel character wherever he goes, playing his tambourine. The disequilibrium of the film would be when Joe meets his lady friend and wants the angel to go away. After he gets his wish he realises he misses Mr Tambourine Man and wants him back.

The new equilibrium is that Joe gets a new Mr Tambourine man, who unfortunately cannot play as well as the old Tambourine man, and cannot play any of the songs Joe likes.

Second idea – Modern art

Our second idea was inspired by modern art. We looked at a picture of an empty table and chairs and another of a tent full of names of people that the artist had slept with. We came up with a film focusing on isolation, emptiness, child and domestic abuse and darkness as the white bulb in the picture of the table did not give off any light.
The film would focus on the names in the tent coming alive around the table as ghost like figures. Each of the names will have a story of abuse that has happened round the dining room table that will be acted out.

Third Idea – Newspaper

This idea focused one character of a one armed bandit and an emotional car crash. It would focus on the one armed bandit going around and robbing one of everything from all stores and his hatred of snow men.
It will then focus on this character running around and “murdering” all snow men he comes across.

Fourth Idea - Pictures

We then had to look at pictures and get an idea from them. We decided to make a film about interspecies relationships between a butterfly and a goldfish. It would be made in a butterfly on the wall style with the butterfly being Omni present and all seeing.

Fifth idea – Poetry – Dirty Money

Lastly we had to read poems and be inspired by them. We focused on a poem called Infidelities. We decided this film would focus on the perspective of the coins that the wife character collects from her unfaithful husband’s pockets and puts them on the window sill.

This film will show the guilt of “the coins collecting dust”. There will be shots of the wife cooking for her husband and footage of the happy couple that will be sped up emphasising lost times. The coins will be the only dialogue we hear. The film will end with the husband collecting all the coins and going to a phone box looking suspicious and weary.