Experimental Film Idea Development

My initial thoughts on this project were about entangling someone in a literal web, to represent the way technology pulls at our lives. What I was thinking of doing was using the studios to film a figure silhouetted in a room with all the strings coming off of him and attaching to computer monitors with code on them. We were thinking of cutting sequences of montage into it, and the sections with the figure itself would have a bit of a Bill Viola feel to them.

We soon realised that our ideas for the studio sequence wouldn't portray quite what we wanted it to, and decided to try something else.

We started thinking about online personas, and our digital representations on the web such as our facebook profiles, twitter accounts, emails, the data thats recorded on websites that we visit that's sold on to third parties and then similar product are advertised to us.

This is a browser attachment that allows you to view the amount of websites that are viewing your information from the page that you're on at that particular moment.

We also decided to keep data diaries to see how much we used our phones in a day.

 

We decided that the medium we wanted to use would primarily be montage, but we knew that we'd need some sort of - not quite narrative but something like that - to string together the main body of the films so that it made sense. To do this we decided we would film someone waking up and the first thing they do is check their phone. So many people these days (myself included) use their phone as an alarm clock. This means that its on all night, and is the first thing you check when you wake up.