After spending a couple of days trying to merge mine and Milo's footage, we decided it would be better to create 2 separate parts. I have developed ideas around an established filming style which wasn't fitting with his synthetic/cgi sequences. I think this film is the strongest work I have made so far and am glad for it to be my final piece as it shows pretty much everything I have learnt in the last 3 years.
The original concept for the film was based around 2 main ideas, a hallucinogenic drug experience which involved a repetition of the words "in my shoe", from a Bob Dylan live video, and the fashion trend of Captain Jack Sparrow style pirate boots. The 2 parts will be our separate interpretations of these ideas. Mine will be part one, an idea of the filming style is shown in the above stills. I have chosen to use the pirate boot and the plinth as the central character or object for my film. It represents the main idea of the boot trend in the film, this boot that is so common and fashionable in this country, sitting on top of a slightly repulsive podium that was once the height of furniture style (I'd say mid nineties, next to a cream leather sofa and animal skin rug, supporting a large television remote). The juxtaposition of this central object against the many back drops, is the first level of abstraction in the work. The backdrops add to the transcending absurdity that is led by the narration. The narration also follows the two main ideas for the film, merging faux psychoanalytic ramblings about the boot with actual descriptions of the hallucinogenic drug experience. Fiction and reality are merged in a way that almost parodies Patrick Keiller's film, 'LONDON'. The boot/plinth shots are interrupted by scenes that attempt to re-create the drug experience, in parts they link to the narration. A further idea is to parody the established film essay style by self sabotaging shots, in one I leave the camera rolling as I step in to spin the boot hanging from a tree and in another, a dog runs in front of the plinth with the boot on it. This intentionally raises questions of professionalism, as the viewer may initially familiarise with the established HD aesthetic, then be confronted with 'mistakes'.
