This film looks into the ideology of addiction; particularly the addiction to attention. To portray this in the film, I created a metaphorical visual of getting 'high' off of attention using extreme blurring effects and tying it all together with an 80's cinematic colour scheme.
This film is about the fact that we only ever see one side of a famous person and we will never know the entire spectrum of what is going on in the entirety of their lives.
This film was shot in one take at 3am and the only editing that was done in post production was cropping the video frame to a cinema-scope format (to emphasise the character being famous) and adding title text at the beginning and end of the film. ALL lighting effects were created live on the shoot.
The light in the film is representative of a symbolic spotlight we all cast on famous people every single second of the day, making anything that is being lit vulnerable and obtainable to the general public. The spectrum of colours that are used to light the film were used to create a pleasant dream-like atmosphere; stressing the idea that someone could see fame as something that is extremely desirable. The darkness is representing the cover that hides their personal lives, secrets, and everything they do not want the public to see or know. The editing style for this piece was inspired by Ruth Hogben's style. I have attempted to replicate a high contrast between the subject and the background and I feel that i have done this successfully.
The aural accompaniment used in this piece is "Count the saints" by 'Foxes'. I decided to use this as it aided the dream-like nature of the visuals. I personally interpreted a lyric in the song -"Love isn't always fair, but that's no reason to be so cruel to me"- as a very good representative phrase of what fame could be to someone; they love fame but sometimes it can really hurt someone.
