WALL

FILMED 09/03/2016

[Words taken from sketchbook]
Like American Beauty, I did want to capture something, whether I had to set it up myself or not. I had the idea of filming a balloon, as Ricky films a plastic bag - working here in homage. However, I purchased the balloons on the way to the woods but was only able to blow any up when I got home and used a pump so I need to try this again.
I wanted to keep the idea of the red so I intended on using a red balloon, which I will get around to doing.
I have a wall in my garden with flaking paint and through this white paint the red brick can be seen - I thought I could perhaps work with this.

I slowed the frames down in iMovie. I slowed it by 50% but I feel this works rather well. The concept is rather self explanatory, but I just wanted to introduce the red. I wanted a really mundane subject. When you take away the narrative in American Beauty, what is the scene but a plastic bag floating in the wind? So I took this idea, working with the very bones to make something seemingly significant. 
Peeling away layers, unveiling a new colour; there are a number of things that could be taken from a simple, very plain video. Like watching paint dry but in reverse... 

There's no structure. No beginning or end. Just that of scraping away at a wall. 

Exciting, eh?