Inspiration Week Blog 4

Other stimuli that were there to help us create short film ideas included pictures of modern art. Two of these pictures we decided to use as influences. One of these was a picture of an empty dining room table with a low light above it. The second picture was of a tent filled with applique names. Underneath the picture featured the caption "All the people I have ever slept with." We were then informed that the artist was sexually abused as a child, meaning some of these names weren't what we initially thought.

Using the two pieces of art, we came up with the idea of incorporating each of the names from the tent as characters who have all been abused in some way around the empty dining table. It would be one static shot looking at the dining table. This would then be the setting where ghostly figures would all dissolve into each other showing their stories.

The artist who painted this picture created a lot of other pictures that involved isolation. The artist [insert name] was always interested in portraying what was not there as opposed to what was there.

We drew on this idea of emptiness and isolation, in that the Dining Room Table never got sat at, but was the subject of where all these horrible things happened.