Osmosis - Treatment

Osmosis is a 3 screened (each screen at resolution 1080 x 1920 Portrait) display based on the nature of eyesight over one's life. This is achieved by the left screen representing birth/infancy, the central screen representing the main part of one's life, and the last representing the latter stages of one's life. This is done over 3 Time-lapses in fields of 15 seconds each:

• The Birth Time-lapse: This is a time-lapse of sunrise (sun coming from the left of the frame) with a baby-milk bottle or rattle at the bottom-left third of the frame. The Screen fades in from black to reveal all in geometric, colourless shapes (most likely using rotoscoping to give this effect); this quickly fades into primary colours and then slowly fades into an out of focus, blurred version of the video with correct colouring; by the end of the 15 second loop this blur should recede entirely to reveal the image in it's original state.
• The Life Time-Lapse: This is a time-lapse of daytime (sun going over top center frame) with a computer monitor in center frame, every couple of seconds it will begin to blur which will be followed by quick frame cuts to opticians and glasses, once it's cut back to the time-lapse the frame is back to being in focus and this process repeats itself as the time-lapse continues.
• The Old-Age Time-Lapse: This is a time-lapse of sundown (sun leaving across the right of the frame) with a newspaper on the crossword section and a pencil at the bottom-right of the frame. as the time-lapse goes on there'll be loss of foreground focus, followed light-tearing on the screen, and cloudy spots developing and encroaching the screen  like cataracts. the problems worsen as the sun goes down as the frame goes into pure darkness where it remains for the rest of its loop, symbolising death.

Shooting can be done over the course of a single weekend (weather allowing) with permissin from either a local park are or done in the privacy of garden grounds. This can be done simply using a High Definition DSLR with a Large memory storage space and automatic timers for taking photographs over set periods of time. for a 3 hour space of time to be captured on screen at 25 fps format for the image sequence then for a 15 second loop the pictures will be automatically needed every 28 seconds approximately with careful need to look after the camera and check the framing, luckily as the camer aill be facing more towards the sun there is little risk of self shadow getting in the way, however it is rather likely that multiple shoots may be necessary as it is more a game of patience and thus having multiple takes of the same time scene allows optimal choice for the best one, therefore filming should be seen as perhaps a 3-4 free day based affair.

Once this is done the chosen sequences will be imported into Adobe After effects where the correct filters can be customised and applied to each sequence.

During showings of one minute long each scene will run fully from left-to-right with the next one being triggered by the last sequence finishing. after te 3rd sequence all will play simulaneously before starting this loop again. If the screens are labelled in numbers in order from left to right then the loop will precede as: 

1 then 2 then 3 then 1+2+3.

Childhood problems based on: http://www.babycentre.co.uk/a6508/developmental-milestones-sight

Life-Problems based on: My Awful Eyes

Old-Age Problems Based on: http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/vision-problems-aging-adults

Mini-Pitch Idea: Digital Distance (working Title) (Reedited)

The inspiration for this short film comes from a long distance relationship that I've been involved with before and personally, having recently been dumped and had a good week of minor depression about the whole thing made me question the strength of connections between people online. Online I have friends who I've come to care for, and few who I've come to love, yet despite seeing these people behind screens I've never actually met them, with many being in foreign countries and /or out of reach, and that's the thing, What is the 21st Century Relationship?

 When questioning this the idea of World-building came to mind, with the recent boom of sandbox video games such as minecraft and Garry's mod and the cooperative gaming scene in general, intimacy and relationship through gameplay has become a legitimate concept. Couples online play games together, and can build worlds together, but this is merely a fantasy, a construct of the digital image, and inspired by "500 days of Summer" sometimes remembering why you were dumped seems unexpected because of personal bias, and that perhaps in a modern long distance relationship this world building aspect shields us from the reality of whether it is the couple being happy and laughing together, or just the game, world, and the sense of distance and mystery that actually keeps such a relationship in place?

 The Blinking Blue Light on my PC during sleep mode was an odd symbol to me when I was dumped, it seemed to me like a metaphor for that bright digital moment followed by the darkness of reality, and personally the idea of slow blinking lights at night being the symbol for the real-world protagonist is 1 of 2 main stylistic choices I personally want to convey. The struggle and depression of reality with a near-emotionless man crushed from the end of what he saw as so beautiful is what needs to be conveyed, however I want this film to be one of no dialogue, instead his distance and wishes shown by ghostly figures of his ex-girlfriend fading into digitally-styled effects, this is reality, it is warped and biased and drab, however fantasy is something else entirely.

While the cinematography of Reality is akin to standard drama, the still-based cinematography of "La Jetee" to represent non-reality is what I want to be combined with the visual stylings of Tetsuya Mizuguchi's "Child of Eden" with the bright world being a mixture of the natural and digital ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-deyUrfoCu4#t=134 ) and to show this false connection between them, those moments of joy being strongly emphasized as something of non-reality, a world built on text messages and a show that typing "I love you" is far easier than honestly speaking it. However to flesh out this world I want to show some occasional images of violence between these 2, the difference being that in this case they are increasingly happy about the whole thing, the reason: it's a commentary on modern gaming culture as examined by Hito Steyerl in "The Wretched of the Screen" in which she discusses the disconnect between the digital and physical world and that moralities are ambiguous in digital function, therefore we can create large moral paradoxes, and note that anything can be considered wondrous in this world, no matter how moral.

 The Final Act of this is what I call the convergence, by showing our protagonists obsession through projections and screens of the non-reality in his, Lighting becomes screen lights. Phones, Monitors, Televisions in places where they would never normally be become the main visual style. and allows him moments of euphoria followed by intense realization as he panics and the power goes out, leaving him in darkness for a while just staying and crying. The final shot being the power coming back on only to bring back that blinking blue light again, ready to continue his loop of reckless self-destruction.

Soundtrack-wise I personally want each act to be distinct, with reality having a soundtrack like "the Graduate" with it's melancholic Acoustics. non-reality is of course more digitized and electronic, and convergence is as suggested, a merging of the two styles.

Good, that's the idea on (virtual) paper, now to set-up storyboards and treatments and...well a lot of things actually. However this late change and choice of ideas stems from the relationship and that feeling of self-destruction, my passion for this project is as much selfish exploration as anything, I want it to be bittersweet and melancholic, a worried love letter to the days of my depression and a window into that life for others, above all though I want it to be sentimental, because I personally want to make a project I can feel proud of, let's hope the group feels the same way xD

some extra links if you have time rob (you don't)
End of Eva http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBFm5wyJ9FM#t=87
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCLoNOYcVQU