Experimental Film Research

For my research I browsed lots of experimental and mainstream films on vimeo, I found a couple that helped give me inspiration for some of our shots such as this one called 'Streets'

STREETS - NEW YORK CITY from Tim Sessler on Vimeo.

This film helped give me ideas for possible shots we could use in our film, as I really liked the angles used, and the lighting is really visually nice. I thought the night time shots used colour in a really interesting way, and I loved the deep blues of the night sky.
I also thought the use of slo-mo was really well done, as it enabled you to observe the movements of the birds and the water etc. with increased detail.
The focus is amazing, the amount of detail captured in every part of the frame is stunning and it really imbues the viewer with a feeling of wonder when observing the film. I'd like to try some of these techniques out for our own film, such as the shots at night time with the blue sky or maybe the slo-mo.

ART & SPACE: Portrait of an Art Journey from Duncan Ward on Vimeo.

This film I thought was interesting as I really liked the choppy clips of road at the start, and I thought the transitions into following shots worked really well with the fade out, although I'm not normally a fan of fade outs. I think it works in this piece because of the style of the film, but if I tried to incorporate it into our one it would probably seem very out of place in relation to our theme and the rest of the film.
I get that with this film it's intentionally black and white and really fuzzy, which I think works well for it (it makes me think of cloudy rainy weather) but it's not something I am intending on incorporating into our own experimental film as I don't think it's suitable for what we are thinking of doing. I suppose it could be quite an interesting idea to make parts of my film black and white but it's not really what we want to go for I don't think. But it works well for this piece.