Monthly Archives: October 2010

A film called ‘The Perfect Human’ (1967) by Jorgen Leth is a short film which features a male and female inside a plain white room. Repetition is one of the first things I noticed in the film, with the narrator … Continue reading →

Involving the three themes of power, spectacle and memory I have an idea based around the flashback of somebody who was taken as a hostage. Based on the idea of ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ and the story of Mary McElroy, a woman … Continue reading →

Paul Abbott (the writer of the TV series Shameless) came into the Uni to talk about his work and give the students some advice on writing techniques. I made some notes of the interest points that Paul made during the … Continue reading →

Featured in an episode of the TV show Peep Show is a scene which occurs throughout involving the characters Jeremy and Super-Hans during the morning ‘after’ trying to remember something bad that they had done the night before. A series … Continue reading →

This idea strays away from the others and is more like an experimental film rather than a visual experiment. Utilizing the technique i’ve previously explained that is used in the videogame Half-Life I want to make a film entirely using … Continue reading →

In the same vein as my previous idea, I have a few thoughts on making another video based around another visual experiment. This would be testing music and its effects on people. It would also be less serious than the … Continue reading →

Following on from my recent interest in various psychological experiments I have decided that I would love to film a live experiment myself. Taking inspiration from the ‘Milgram Experiment’ which tests humanities obedience to authority, I could conduct something similar … Continue reading →

Half-Life is a video games series that began in 1998 (and has seen multiple release since) and is quite unique in it’s genre of FPS’s (First Person Shooters) because of it’s narrative technique. The gamer plays in the first-person perspective … Continue reading →

I have recently been reading various articles about a variety of famous (or infamous in most cases) psychological experiments, I find them to be fascinating, here are a couple of the articles unethical psychological experiments social psychology studies

I went to the Tate Modern and the theme that was being covered throughout its exhibition was voyeurism. The one thing that really stood out to me was a technique in a film called ‘Eye/Machine’ which utilized two screens simultaneously … Continue reading →