Exercises

Experiment with some of these ideas to make a film today.

Exquisite Script

Each person to write a line of a script, then pass it onto the next person, you should only see/ look at the previous line.

Write a scene descriptor, An action, a camera direction, a line of dialogue.

Find a newspaper, magazine, or some text you can cut up or take lines from, preferably current. Feed this into the script.

Once you have done a few rounds of this, we will read out and record the script.

You are then to create this film - using materials and locations around you.

Found footage, drawings, photos, downloads, mime, sound effects… to be embraced.

Abstract footage - Walk (Photography and/ or Video)

You are each to go on a walk, looking for abstract imagery, to photography or shoot on video. See examples of nine elements below - Light, Shadow, Line, Shape, Form, Texture, Colour, Size, Depth

This could be used for a collective experimental video collage, fed into the cut up video from last week, or simply to practice photography / cinematography, developing new perspectives.

You could do the same exercise, listening for and recording sounds.

Try adapting some of the creative exercises from the B&H video below. In particular Exercise 11 - The Nine Elements

Go to a street corner, park, or other location and make images (still and/ or moving image) showing the following:

  • Light

  • Shadow

  • Line

  • Shape

  • Form

  • Texture

  • Color

  • Size

  • Depth

Bonus round? Also add:

  • Focus

  • Tonality

  • Quality of light

  • Pattern

  • Negative space

Also think about:

  • Movement

  • Rhythm

Inspired by a poem by Josef Albers, Without You is a visual exploration of London's industrial suburbia. Focusing on an imaginary circle drawn at a 10 mile radius from Charing Cross, where the natural and manmade environments lie side by side in harmonic indifference, the film follows a colour-coded and surface-determined path, where identifiable or 'simple' forms are sculpted and submerged into one another, resolved only through the abstraction of their immense revealed complexity. An Animate Projects Commission for Channel 4 in association with Arts Council England, UK 2009. talrosner.com facebook.com/talrosnerartist Artist and creative director Tal Rosner works closely with musicians, theatre makers and fashion brands - combining multiple layers of sound and visuals to create video installations and live performances. Rosner won the BAFTA for Best Title Sequence (2008) for the Channel 4 television series Skins.

GAMES/ TOOLS/ APPS

There are tons of games, tools, exercises and apps that you can find, I’ll add some of them here, if you find any others - let us all know.