Initial Ideas – What do I like?

We started off our first session of the module by firstly thinking about what we liked. We were given the task to think of 3 things and 3 people. We were not introduced to the brief straight away, just told we would need to make some sort of video. This would give us a vague understanding of how to come up with concepts for our video.

At first I was apprehensive about this as it was so broad, but tried to approach it as if it was just an exercise not my final idea. I believe this really helped to understand the extent of what our research must include, and also that our concept must be focused around storytelling.

My 3 words were:

• Dogs
• Food
• Colours

My 3 People became many people:

• Wes Anderson – can also look at Ludwig Favre & #AccidentallyWesAnderson
• Grey Malin – horses with wigs, and llamas with balloons
• Riviersneda (Carlos Neda) – digital creator of pastel interiors
• Drake On a Cake & The Sweet Feminist – cake with statements
• Aimee song & Tyler Joe for fashion video creation

We then did a brief 15 mins of research of these people – to find the link between them:

Wes Anderson;

• Age 50
• American
• Filmmaker
• Cinematography

Grey Malin;

• Fine art / aerial photographer
• American
• Famous for aerial beach photos
• Famous for photos of animals in remote locations

The Sweet Feminist;

• Baker
• Political Message
• Famous since 2018
• Uses social media / photography

Riviersneda (Carlos Neda);

• Honduras based
• Digital artist
• Creating pastel interiors

 

Then we all brainstormed some ideas of what the video concept could be when all of these elements are combined;

• Jef Koons – balloon dog; stainless steel, fragile, not fluffy, sculpture, material
• Colour scheme – Pastel
• Balloon food – floating food, squeaking when cutting
• People eating dog food
• Dog restaurant – dog wine?
• Dog eating but with human arms
• Isle of dogs
• Grand Budapest Hotel
• Dogs on helium – that then they meow
• Dogs riding people with balloon swords
• Edweard Muybridge style?
• Police dogs as balloons
• Responsible rehoming – not a comical approach?

 

These ideas were all very wild and I can imagine them being very expressive. As a first session I believe this was a great way to ease us into the process.