group work - video responses - initial ideas

Here's the poem's we chose and the lines we focused on -
1st poem -
Razia Afzal

Sulking Winds

'I see the dead man’s shadow as he speaks with the voice of Odin; as the winds ravish to chime, he splits into partial sublime.'

2nd poem - 

Zenam Bi

Simplicity

'Modernisation, politics, man-made social landscapes, with no room for nature.

No room for your thoughts to think beyond what they create.

Imagination has no open fields to play in.'

'Why can’t I enjoy the stillness, grasp this beauty,'

Ideas - 1st poem

for the first poem we found a line that we liked straight away - 'with the voice of Odin' ...
Norse mythology is awesome (well, all mythology is) :) so we knew we wanted to do something norsey. So we messed around with a few ideas, animation of odin, a story from mythology, Luca dressed as odin.
yeah! that one. So we knew we wanted Luca to dress up as Odin and we made up a storyboard to incorporate this into it. I thought we could use a book to tell the story and then pillars would come out of the book to form Odin's throne room where Luca would be sat.
So andy drafted up a storyboard of a guy finding a book, pillars come to life, guy is in the presence of odin, odin chants, pillars crumble, then the guy is back to where he was before.

Idea's - 2nd Poem

The second one we picked lines that showed that people don't stop to see the beauty anymore. We thought to do at first a photomontage of images that would show good and bad things and sights. Then we changed it to videos of things so we could edit more and the brief didn't ask for photo's really, it should be a video. So we started to research into montages and things that make people think and feel different about a certain subject by watching something pretty and how that prettiness is being destroyed.

So we thought of pretty things we could film - like clouds, stars, flowers etc...

and bad things like - people rushing, littering, bad weather etc...

I had a good idea for time lapses and a split screen effect to edit in showing the reality and expectations of things like in 500 days of summer. The time lapses would show how many people rush by too, not to mention it looks good so we put those into it and began to think of even more ideas and things we could put in.