Creative Project - Aims and Context/ Planning

Style: Experimental

Aims: To simulate what it's like to experience an anxiety attack, making the audience feel uncomfortable. Mental illness is a taboo topic, but mental illness in guys is even more taboo, I want to show that this sort of thing can and does happen to anyone, not just teenage girls.

Influences: Andy Warhol - Portraits

                  Godfrey Reggio - Natural shots and sped up shots of people going about daily life.

                  Stan Brackhage - Use of only colours in the shots.

             

Portraits zooming into the eye. Multiple people, majority male

Calm, natural shots becoming more manic and stormy.

Record busy corridor 3 times, speed it up and lay the shots over each other. Audio: Heavy breathing

Black and red swirling/fading together  starting to speed up to the point where it resembles convulsions. Audio: Static and tense music/ droning

Cut between dark static (FVK Danger video), nails on blackboard, Twisting branches/thorns/vines.

Voices whispering insults that you would think about yourself when you're panicking until it turns into white noise.
Audio out of sync with shots
Tap dripping
Traffic at night

Structure

Portraits in the photography studio, 2 guys and 1 girl??? 

Very quick flash (0.5 secs?) of static

Mid shot calm, blue sky

Mid close-up grass rippling in the wind

Mid shot darker sky, clouds rolling in
Flash of static

Close-up rain-drops falling on the window, slow down footage

Mid close-up rain falling in a puddle, heavy rain

Fade to black from outside of frame to the middle

Heavy breathing

Fade between black and red

Cut clips together/ place each clip on top of each other of people in the corridors sped up

Quick cuts between uncomfortable sounds (Static, nails on blackboard, twisting branches/ vines) Corridors, and red/black.

Audio over the top of quick cuts: heavy breathing, uncomfortable sounds that correspond to clips, and whispers of insults/comments you would hear in your head during an anxiety attack, etc.

Zoom out of eyes, back to the portrait shots. Nothing about them has changed apart from a subtle shift in how comfortable they seem.

Notes
Shots seem really static at the minute, maybe add a few more moving shots with panning and zooming?
Shaky/ jolted shots.