First Ideas

The beginning of a new idea is always a tricky one when it come to projection, the development of my ideas of the Peeping Tom led me to want to take this idea of viewing into someone's domestic setting and manipulate it. Previous work of mine looked at the deconstruction of Hollywood cinema, ridiculing the set up of camera to develop tension in both horror and romantic movies. As shown I replicated shot for shot a celebrated example of Hollywood history asking my actors to recite the lines without expression. There deadpan faces and simple movement highlight the narrative of the scene and as a collective of works you were able to recognise certain tendencies with movies, for example a romantic scene involves a large amount of 'over the shoulder' shots, close ups of the face and close placement of actors. This deconstruction of cinema and the filmic techniques used has allowed me to focus my ideas on creating a cinematic space and deconstructing this ideas of camera shot. The idea of a Master's Dollshouse, allows me the Master to control my dolls (or actors) in there domestic environment. By shooting my subjects full body length I hope to remove all idea of Hollywood Cinema and look at the building of tension within a scene and the concept of a Peeping Tom. Asking the audience to peep into a domestic setting watching, like a movie, a development of tension and genre.

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