Final Project

I really like the direction I am taking with the final project, I am excited for the end result, I think I will keep the number of movies I will be projecting limited to maybe 5 or 6

project proposal

my idea for my porject incorporates my source (film score). The plan is to project scenes from different movies over people who are performing the motions of the actions taking place in the scene. the only audio will be the score of the scene being projected. I am going to film the projections over the people. The camera angles will be in the same style as the scene being projected.

broken screen: Breathless

1. Breathless
2. Jean-Luc Godard
3. In this particular scene, Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo), is told by the woman he loves, Patricia (Jean Seberg) that she does not love him back, and that she informed the police of his whereabouts for they were looking for him after he murdered a police officer in the beginning of the film. Michel says he doesnt want to run but his friend tosses a gun to him as the police arrive, the police open fire on Michel. Michel then run's down the street dying until he falls in the intersection. The police and Patricia surround his body as he whispers to Patricia "you're a scumbag"
4. The notion of time is manipulated in the fact that most of the scenes where the characters are speaking, including up until Michel's death, it is a series of jumpcuts. The shot of the person will jump to a shot of the same person to a different location but they are still maintaining the same conversation from the original shot.
5. The main method used is the jumpcut. the audio remains the same throughout the scene but the shot of the person jumps to different locations. This is the only method in which Godard manipulates time in the film.
6. This is one of my favorite films by one of my favorite directors. This film jump started the revelutionary filmmaking that took place in France in the early 60's. There are many technical things (such as using a wide angle lense for close-ups) which made the French New Wave films so different. And Because of these new achievements, People started to look outside the major studios to find good cinema.