Moving away from trying to find MacGuffins occurring in real life, I decided to think of real life scenarios that can be made into short narratives for testing. (See bottom of page for tutor feedback on my short film test.)
I looked at Sonneveld House (opened 1933) for design reference. I loved the modern style and how simply colour was used to bring the rooms together and balance them visually. Howvever, I needed to do the opposite: I wanted to bring focus to an object within an image rather than balance the entire set. For this, I did the exact opposite of the designers of Sonneveld House, by making one object bright red and the rest as white as possible.
I also referenced my previous Bowie project, because we used a similar colour scheme here in order to create a controlled, art directed image that brought focus to the objects. The difference here was that in Bowie, the person wore black to stand out from the background as they were an important part of what we wanted to communicate, but in my test I wanted the characters (my left and right hands) to fall into the background too because they are part of the narrative that I want to remove focus from. Therefore, the hands wore white.
Here is my test of 'The Last One' - a short film (40sec). In the future, I would like to use two actors instead of having to make my hands fight between them! I think the art direction was successful and so was the pan inwards to obscure the drama occurring out of shot and bring attention to the tomato. I think that to improve, I need more convincing acting and more differentiation between the two characters: could they have their own personality traits that come across more strongly? At the moment they just fight with eachother.
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