Media A2 Coursework Blog

So I've spoken to my teacher and come up with some ideas on an experimental piece. I looking at a possessed drama, sort of thing. Unsure yet, but I have an idea for a location, which is an abandoned town in Uxbridge. However, I don't know what my storyline is currently. Looking into dance and art forms of expressive natures I am formulating ideas. Here is a mind map of my planning, its evolving into somthing i didnt expect.

This is one of my chosen genres out of the ones I looked at, because I really like how the accurate representation of a part of society which isn't generally represented in film. The following video is another example of where social realism is represented but wouldn't be seen by the usual movie crowd. THE LINE from Dark Pictures on Vimeo . This genre is an edgy genre that works well with my artistic concept because I combine narrative with an artistic form of experimental dance.

The reasoning behind picking this as one of my main genre types is because it's definition: "Experimental film, experimental cinema or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms and alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working.Many experimental films, particularly early ones, relate to arts in other disciplines: painting, dance, literature and poetry, or arise from research and development of new technical resources" As I would like to create a work of art that has minimal text, but the story is explained through dance. This interests me because being an artist myself,  acting isn't really somthing that necessary appeals to my taste espeically when the actors are not professional. However the art of dance to express a story is beautiful and timeless to me. It's more powerful than acting a script. Here is a long explaintion of the genre but theres nothing more...

Loach says that "The British middle class is obsessed by what they call 'bad' language. Actually, 'bad' language is manipulative language, and they're very happy with that. But the odd oath, like a word that goes back to Chaucer's time, they will ask you to cut. But the manipulative and deceitful language of politics they use themselves." In the same press conference, Loach makes the point that the "working classes are our agents of change", but that "as the economic crisis gets harder, the villification of working people gets more intense by the press in that people, as you see in the film, are seen as feckless, idle, with their hand out for benefits. This is the propaganda we get, so one of the things we wanted to do in the film was to turn that on its head and say no, of course, that isn't the case... If the system that is bringing destruction to us and to our lives has meant that for us to ask for a secure job, a house to live in...