Re-Write Up of Ideas

So, i'm going to try & maintain my focus through the process of smaller projects so that I don't get overwhelmed, focus on smaller stages rather than the bigger picture, & have a range of finished products for my portfolio.
In August 2013, I made a video everyday for a month. This helped me to constantly not question what I was making, and just decide to make. I feel like this is a good way for me to be able to produce work, and I have decided to try & focus on a project a week. This helps me to create bigger projects then the August time, but also give me a time frame to work with & also a structure.
If this doesn't work, then I will try to do them in two weeks, & focus more on a few projects but for now, I am going to try the week.

Project Ideas/Starting points for weekly projects:


Anxiety -
I feel like I should really make something related to Anxiety. I've explored this before & I feel like it is important to shine a light on mental illness as well as being able to project personal experiences of my own onto the screen. I don't want it to be too sorrowful, and I actually have multiple ideas associated with mental illness and anxiety, so I have a few options. 
Portrait -
A fragmented narrative exploring the personal experience of having a mental illness.
Experimental piece, possibly for installation.

Documentary
Piano

This idea is to do with the pianos that are sat in St Pancras & Brighton Station. This idea was discussed with my mum as she commutes to Brighton & says about how much the pianos give a nice atmosphere to the station. I had an idea to document this as I like the fact that it can bring out creative abilities in people that you would have otherwise just walked past. I also like that it shows a nicer side to the usual boring commute.
Since having this idea, i've since found out about a bigger project called Play Me, I'm Yours which is a project all over the world placing pianos into different locations. There are already documentaries on pianos in different areas which did put me off for a while, but i still think that if i did this project, I could bring my own interpretation on it.
My only concern about this is the fact that it would require a crew and also a bit more preparation than the smaller projects. I feel like this could actually work as a main project, but I am just not sure about committing to this, since I am having such a lack of confidence lately. I do like the idea though. 

 Short Film/Piece
I have all the ideas I had at the beginning of this year, and I still like them but i keep being swayed more by atmospheric pieces rather than the more conventional narrative. I want to project feelings more than statementing my intent with dialogue. I also don't feel so confident writing dialogue, so                                                             i think this is where it stems from.
At the moment, I have themes rather than ideas. I keep picturing a kind of slow motion dancing to a record scenario with a era attached to it. Kind of a care free attitude/young summery dancing like you                            just don't care attitude. I want to do something related to that. 

I also have an idea about insomnia. It's mostly to do with the silence of the night, and the calmness of sunrise that I always used to enjoy when I couldn't sleep. My brain would be so busy. I'd spend the entire night on my laptop, watching things, dancing, feeling like my brain just wouldn't stop, and then the sun would rise & i'd feel this sense of calmness. So I had a picture in my mind to explore this with an actress, using sound & light to tell the story (i know that sounds strange.)


Dance
I've been interested lately in dance. I think this is partly to do with not doing a dance piece in the second year, and also it fits quite well with my ideas mostly being about themes or feelings. I don't have too many ideas on the dance front, but it is something I am interested in. Especially if I involved                                                     myself in a more musical project. 
Ballet - There's a potential for a ballet dancer thanks to Edrei. If I come up with a concept to go with                                                           this, i'd be really interested. 

 Interviewing the Public
I've always expressed an interest in this, and this kind of applies for the piano idea. I just like exploring the lives and ideas of every person on this earth. I feel like everyone has something powerful to say, and using film to be able to show this would be really exciting for me. This was kind of inspired a little of the project I did in the first year involving interviewing the public about London. It made me realise that you can get such interesting insights into the public, whereas usually you                      would never know anything about them. They all had such interesting stories.
Nature
As I always like making films involving nature both for the course & in my spare time, I think it would be good for me to continue this theme. I like making pretty picturesque atmosphere films, and I have the idea of making 'Postcards' of different places depending on where I can go. Either it will be places that I am close with/have memories of, or I will want to visit places I haven't been to before. This includes the Lake District & Isle of Arran (where my Dad has just moved to). Obviously this would involve more planning, but I thought it would be nice as I have wanted to explore more anyway & i think it fits both my interests & one of the paths i'd like to take (doing nature/landscape style filmmaking). 

Installation
Me & Edrei discussed this one. Basically, a two screen installation/film involving landscapes & macro. This came from a discussion about my macro photography & how it's interesting that so much is going on when you really look. The idea is to have one screen just focused on the landscape, & the other on a very small macro percentage looking into the living world beneath.