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October 29, 2004

My 3rd film "88 Teardrops"

Finally, I finished the last individual film project. This time I casted myself as a main actor. OMG, what an emptiness it was~! Moving the camera, and acting(and ,for sure,there's nobody reacting) and going back to the camera and so on... Now... it's group project~! there will be no more loneliness, yeah~~~

3rd indivisual film "88 Teardrops"
by Doo-yul Park(aka Doox)

INTENT:

* to make a film which sound and music are taking greater part than my 1st and 2nd.
- that's the reason I choose a pianist's story. Also raindrop sound and piano sound are somewhat similar in their transparency, and the teardrop ,which means the painful process of reaching high artistic level, also reminded me of raindrop. Those combination of "raindrop + teardrop + pianosound" gave me inspiration of visual and sound/music design in the film.

* to create visually interesting scenes & and improve the light which I missed in 2nd film.
- taking shots from the raining campus, I found really visually strong scenes and those were mostly scenes with flowers. So I decided to use flowers as a meaningful symbol in the film.
- when I saw a yellow flower which looks like a hand, I got an idea of dissolving it exactly where the pianist's hand is. That was the start and I came up with more ideas of dissloving
things like dissolving between dry scenes and wet scenes,piano keyboard and the road, and things like that.
- piano keyboard itself has visually interesting figure and it was just great to look at in a certain angle of camera. I wore black overshirt to make an impression of unity with
the black piano, and I also chose white overshirt for 2nd one.

* to make the film say something but not all the way serious. I wanted to make it humorous sometime but also making audience think about the painful process of being an musician.

SYNOPSIS:
* a guy is playing piano, he thinks his technique is perfect and is sure to have favorable response from his teacher at the coming lesson. But the teacher thinks there's no feeling in his play and even hits him with the piano score. He is so dissapointed and frustrated that he even throws his keyboard to the floor. But in a second he feels sorry what he did for the keyboard. He sleeps besides the keyboard and is awaken to find that it's raining. He starts to play the keyboard improvizationally with his own simple melody. There's raining scenes of campus, and he keeps practicing. In the next morning, he seems to be more comfortable from yesterday's frustration after listening raindrops and playing the keyboard with his own melody. He goes to the lesson again and the teacher tells him not to be stiff and to be himself. The teacher says he has to play the piano with his own feeling like when he looks at a flower. He tries to play Rachmaninoff with his mind and plays it in a JAZZ style. He also plays chopsticks and suddenly the teacher joins to play with him, and they seem to be comfortable to each other again. At the concert, he played well and the teacher is proud of him. The two hug each other after finishing the performance with applause from audience.

CHALLENGES:
* making various angles for playing piano and make their sound & music synchronize seemlessly.
* make big impression of symbolic dissolve transition like flower and hand, keyboard and road, and dry scenes and wet scenes.
* acting(also practicing the piano piece"Rachmaninoff 2nd piano concert") by myself
* giving various kinds of height and angle to scene(I used my keyboard stand to make various height) without panning or zooming(because I had to act away from the camera)
* recording sounds like(a guy next room hitting the wall, keyboard falling down, etc.)

Posted by doox at October 29, 2004 05:07 PM

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