The project is being rethought slightly. The focus will be moved from me to other people carrying out the experiments, which functions twofold. First: the films become more interesting. They're mining the same vein as one of my earlier works, A moving family portrait (2008). The audience's responses become a significant part of the content of the film. The need for an audience - which will doubtless be ever-changing - means a subsequent change in location, with each film being located in different surroundings. Secondly, the focus is pulled off me completely, allowing me to either film the responses or to take on a less prominent role.
I am currently envisaging these films being recordings of a series of lectures. I will lead them, directing the audience with the assistance of a slideshow, through a number of experiments that can easily be conducted as a group. My current thoughts are to carry out a trial lecture at university, and restage it in various places: the Digital Arts Showcase, to be held in April in Carlisle, is one. Schools and church halls would be rather interesting too. I presume I would need a cameraman (or, as the case may present, woman) to assist in these.
This doesn't mean that every film will take this lecture-based form. Simply that the ones that I had planned to perform myself will now be carried out by a group who are eminently more watchable than I.
I ordered a copy of July and Fletcher's Learning to Love You More, which I need to pick up from town tomorrow. Let's see how the pros do this: and then I'll have a go.
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