Inspiration Week Blog 3

In our third Inspiration Week lesson, we were placed into our groups that we would be working with whilst making our final project. For this, however, I was put into another group as I am working on my own.

In the classroom, there were a number of tables set out with different types of stimuli to help us, or 'inspire us.' These included song lyrics, poetry, newspaper articles and pieces of modern art. For each of these different stimuli we had to come up with an idea for a short film. From there, we had to choose two of our stronger ideas and develop them to become our main ideas for a short film.

Idea 1 - "Mr. Tambourine Man"

Our stimulus for Idea 1 was song lyrics. We had three choices, but we chose to use one main song and take an influence from another song. These songs were "Mr. Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan and "I Have A Dream" by Abba.

This short film featured our two main characters: Jack, a working male who was a bit down. His job was running his life and had no time for relationships. He needed a pick-me-up. Our other character is Mr. Tambourine Man. He is an Angel who is stuck in Limbo waiting to be judged for his entrance to Heaven or Hell. After committing a life full of sin, he is sent to Earth to repent of his sins by doing good.

He meets Jack and plays the soundtrack to his life on his Tambourine. Their relationship grows until Jack finally meets a girl. Mr. Tambourine Man becomes upset with this as he is gradually being rejected and pushed away. Jack starts to then feel down again for rejecting him and asks for another Mr. Tambourine Man. But this Tambourine Man cannot play the Tambourine.

Idea 2 - "Dirty Money"

Our second short film idea was influenced by a poem called "Infidelities." It told the story of a woman who was collecting coins from her husbands trouser pocket and placing them on the window-sill. As they sit there, they collect dust, or guilt, until the husband one day picks them up to make a phone call he can't make from the house phone.

It is portrayed through the narration of the coins. It starts off as the couple being portrayed as a happy couple, with the wife making dinner and folding the husbands pants, at which time she places the coins on the window-sill. As they sit there, they gradually collect dust, which is portrayed as their guilt toward being used for the mystery calls to the mistress. They feel sorry and guilty for the wife as they know what they are going to be used for.

Until one day, the husband picks the coins up and goes off to make a phone call. The last shot is a voyeuristic shot from behind a tree where the husband acts edgy, looking all around before entering the phone-box.