In the past week or so, we have to of hit our stride with (again) another new idea. This time we have scenes and firmer grip on things so it’s going well.
With new ideas comes new scenes and with new scenes comes duffrent ideas for techniques. As I’ve just finished the essay in the past week or so my mind jumps right to how we interacted with our mediatized elements of the peice.
In our Hitler scene. We are presenting the lighter and prehaps more realistic/human side of him. So we are performing a lip dub of his home videos that can be found online. I find this particularly Intresting because the usual image of hitler is one of a angry dictator screaming at a podium. We are showing a diffrent mediatized form of Hitler, moving past the propaganda and into his real world. What is espacially diffrent from the archived footage to the home movies is the way he interactes with people (espacially his wife- who was barely seen with him otherwise). It bring hitler into the modern day and into the age where with YouTube self captured videos are ubiquitous.
The realistic and casual speech of the lip dub also help aid in this YouTube esque take on Hitler.
Another scene and technique we are including is the columbine shooting. One aspect of this scene will involve fixing a GoPro (small camera) to the barrel of a discharged, and completely innofective gun. We are going to point this to the audience, showing their reaction on a screen. The technical thinking behind this is to, 1: show a diffrent angle we all come to expect of this type. making it feel personal for the audience
2: represent the real life boys obsession of self image
3: represent the behind the scenes of history theme were using.
As well as this, with the ‘gun cam’ we are going to run off stage and into the library where we will perform a staged shooting. What the audience will see is a traveling video taking us off stage to another place. we use the technology to experiment what space can be implemented live, on stage. On stage we will just show the video and nothing else. This will draw more attention to the video.