freewrite+beginning ideas...

what is time...time is always changing...it is based on our perceptions..some moments last forever...some moments go by very quickly. time is relevant to our mental state, and to our current situation. time time time...we construct time with a series of reference points..we lose all of the seconds in between these points, we don't remember them well..for example, driving to a place where we drive multiple times a day, we won't remember that drive...the importance of time is based on our mental state and attitude towards it. Things that we look forward to go by very quickly, things we dread can feel 10 times as long as they scientifically were. time is a measurement...it never changes, in all technicality, we just change. we rebuild time through our memories, through the time we think that we captured and kept. we cling to time, memories, etc. eternal sunshine. we cannot erase time, no matter how hard we try. we can forget. we can try to block it out. we could set the scene to create a moment identical to one we previously experienced, but it will never be the same, we could do all of the same things, say all of the same things, but the moment has passed. the feelings, the subtle details of the moment have changed. space and time can only be reconicieved through the short clips of feeling, sight, sound, taste, smell, etc.  in our heads that define them. 

time is non linear...we think we exist in one time, but in reality, we have multiple times running through our heads at every moment. these moments overlap and interconnect and break apart. our memories interfere with our "real time." real time is an illusion because by the time we realize it is there, it has passed. 

we describe time in past, present, future terms, i will, he did, she is....

the nature of time is to be an illusionist.

set of characteristics....fast, deceiving, varying based on perception, mysterious...confusing...thief...slow..

time is a constant motion...it is relative to the ways we perceive it..

we want to record, capture, document time to remember. To use and manipulate...

represented by our futile attempts at catching the passing moment-photographs, films, writing, things that remind us of a moment...

models of time-calendars, watches, fast/slow motion in films, everything that happens to us right now, and that will happen to us..a constant loop of entaglement between the present, past, and future, with all of the things that wish and hope for and our imaginations mixed in...it's a wonder we can diffrenciate...  

*in reverse motion. switch to forward motion at the end. various speeds.

*homage to eternal sunshine. make things start disappearing. 

*parallel action-as one person leaves the memories of that person begin to disappear as well...cheesy..

NO 1 HOUR TIME LAPSE SHOT, UNLESS IT IS COMBINED WITH ANOTHER SHOT...

personal level/lived experience

ideas

*communicate the mixing of times as well as the impossibility to truly capture a moment. it's gone. 

1.losing, finding something. portrayed in both forward motion and reverse motion.

2.telling a story..before we reach the ending, we come to the point where the past/present/future/wants/hopes become jumbled

3. a simple differenation between what the character wishes to happen and what is "really" happening. can we ever tell?  maybe film a character's walk through town, then reinerpret the situation using a different medium (stop motion, etc) reference science of sleep. 

4. A FIGHT. what the characters wish they were saying/doing. married couple. never show faces. maybe. 

5. an awkward situation...what the character wishes he/she could do, would have done. or mix it with a real situation. for example..show character's feelings in the shot. if the character feels ignored, then shoot them wearing a bag over head or something..

6.depict several levels of time in one shot. start with character's face, then flash to something that will happen at the very end of the film, and then to something that happens in the middle, all out of order, then something that the character wishes to happen. 

7. FILM home videos. polariods, any means of capturing time. describe a person this way. maybe a narrative? confuse past present future and wants

reference chris ware comics. harmony korine. film the same scene four times. once focusing on the "present" what is really happening. second time focus on the past, something the character keeps replaying in his/her head. third time focus on the character's wishes for the future. shoot the future in reverse leading back to place where the character started. everything comes back to the middle (the present) 

-portray past as a montage of home video, photographs, and the events that lead to the character being in the scene they are in...

-portray future in reverse, showing a result of what is happening in the past..

-portray things in character's mind as something ridiculous, obviously a grandiose fantasy.