Influences for short films

On the 30th of April I posted a brief post about research into short films, at that point in my project I had looked at Tracey Emin as a source of inspiration. I used her use of voice overs as a lead to use them in my set of three videos, it eliminates problems such as filming and sound difficulties because volume and imager/film can now be edited separately so when affects such as slow motion are applied sound does not get distorted. Now I have looked at various films, both long and short to influence me as far as my own set of three short films are concerned. I have been influenced by Francesca Woodman once again, after watching a short video clip of Francesca writing her name on a large piece of white paper that she stood naked behind, then walked straight through. After watching this clip I watched it again and again, wondering what its significance was, what on earth was she doing? What did she want me to think? What was she symbolising? Then it dawned on me how beautiful the clip was, how delicate, raw and truthful the whole 48 seconds of silence was. How it was completely open to my own interpretation  I chose to use a similar process within my video, I asked everyone other than my Gramp to write down one word of their choice underneath their full name that they would call themselves, this could've been: mother, father, child, son, aunt, cousin, lover, wife, widow, husband... any noun that applied to them. I thought not only would it loosen them up and get them into the right frame of mind to be interviewed and talk freely but it would kick start the video with a very bold statement that the audience could interpretation as they want to. 

The first 48 seconds of this youtube clip are the 48 seconds that i have spoken about above. I first saw the film whilst watching the film 'The Woodmans'- a documentary from the Woodman family and friends about Francesca in all her entireties.