Tuesday, June 21, 2005

"traces" 5-7 site specific locations/ narratives :-

Notes on videos: All videos to be 60 secs max length, 3gp format. ( I have already existing footage output to 3gp and it looks great!)
Videos will have very large text intro identifying the locatio and the first name of the person recounting the experience eg Kings Cross, Andy.
Shot on DV, composited in After Effects, slightly dreamlike, as if evoking a memory.

Site 1 : Opera House
Audio:-recollection of one of the 2 guys ( Dave Burgess or Will Saunders) who climbed the Opera House, and painted the "No War" sign in red paint in 2003 . His thoughts as he was climbing, painting – how did he feel, what was he thinking?
Video:- Shots of pristine Opera House. Close ups. Shots of red paint. Shots of No War sign.
ALTERNATIVELY if I can’t interview Dave or Will, then interview an eyewitness.

Site 2: Harbour Bridge
Audio:- A gay man recounts a sexual encounter he had with his partner up on the Harbour Bridge when they climbed it at night, many years earlier.
Video:- Shots of Harbour Bridge, wide and in close up. Shots of 2 young men walking (but not explicit).

Site 3: Chinatown
Audio:- Recollection of young Asian girl or guy lanning- playing an intense all night networked game, in one of Chinatown’s computer game parlours.
Video:- Shots of Chinatown at night, lanner, friends, manic playing of games.

Site 4: Luna Park
Audio: A young girl recounts a vivid childhood experience occurring at Luna Park.
Video: Luna Park, big face, Coney Island, rides

Site 5: Brougham St, Kings Cross
Audio: A man recounts scenes from a huge and very wild party in a house in Brougham St, Kings Cross.
Video: Cross @ night, houses, cu’s people jostling against each other, party type scenes.

Site 6: Fletcher St, Bondi
Audio:- Experience / recollection of a woman whose mother had been shot and almost killed by a stalker at a house in Fletcher St in the 1940’s, when the mother had been only 21.
Video:- Shots of the street, houses, close ups young woman and young man in 1940’s clothes as she answers door to stalker ( again, implied rather than explicit violence).

Site 7: tba but possibly one of the following ( or anything else that comes up in the next few weeks that is better!! Suggested sites and experiences welcome- but they need to be actual not fictional experiences):-

Pitt St: A skateboarder recollecting travelling through CBD
Maya Jupiter/ MC Trey :- a vivid recollection tied to a Sydney location
Rocks: an intense experience occurring in the Rocks.
Arq or other club- A clubber or DJ recounts an intense experience happening one night in one of Sydney’s dance clubs.
Breakdance/ Freestyle / Hip hop – city – recollection of Vietnamese teenager dancing with crew on street
Hilton Hotel– George St– recollection of one of the policemen injured in the Hilton Bombing in the late 70’s.
Side On Café – Annandale – recollection of a young woman as her father drunkenly plays piano onstage.