Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Title

I am not sure about the title, unless we planned on filming in black and white only as a way to suggest these spaces were colored with life and people at one time, but I am not sure if conceptually that will work or would be ascetically the right choice.

I like the "space" but maybe we should play around with time and/or landscape in the title. Colored with the connotation (absent of some style choice like filming in black and white) might raise some distracting discussion to the central theme. Space and time are both characters we are working with in some conceptual way, why not put them in the title and make the viewer confront what those term conceptually mean to us and to them?

But.....for a defense of "colored"......

I always had a visual idea in my head for a film which addressed race in some way. Here my idea, I don't know how or if it would work for our purposes but, I imagine a linear chronological story of race relations where by the viewer would learn that race was reductive to merely black and white and thus was blind or absent to color. I don't want to go into my original story idea to explain this, but in my head say we film in color at the beginning of the film and as the film goes on and we learn about these two places and times (Sanford and Ocoee), a color from the film is taken away and replaced with black and white, so the films starts in color and slowly without the viewer noticing the film ends in black and white because the color has been removed during the course of the story. Or the colors could become grayer until it is in black and white at the end. I sort of like the one color at a time, but that might be beyond our technical and financial abilities.

I am not sure if this is doable with our shoestring budget or if conceptually it would work, but if we play with color in that abstract kind of way then color in the title would represent a character like time and space do.

This is just an idea, I am not at all married to it.

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