This year of school I am expected to produce a legitimate film of the experimental variety. As in it has to look like I worked really hard on it and it's 20 minutes long. The film that I have in mind at this point would be described as such, "A docu-drama about the life of a bee". You're probably thinking isn't that like all those disney pixar annoying bug movies? No because this is better. Let me describe it to you:
The movie starts off as a straight nature documentary, with a soft spoken narrator narrating the daily activities of the bee. The bee itself though will be a poorly constructed puppet. and it will be "flying around" (aka attached to peice of floss) to pollenate the flowers which will also be poorly constructed on a minature set. I might use projection for the background. So I still have to write the narration, but essentially the bee is mad boring and everything it does is repetitious. This part of the film repeats day after day with the bee flying around and this narration going on and on. Everyone starts thinking, is this it? This is so boring it's absurd. and then BAM 2ND PART OF THE MOVIE STARTS.
2nd part of movie:
The narrator is like saying his usual thing about the bee awaking at sunrise or whatever but then the bee is nowhere to be seen, the camera does the regular movements to go along with the narration but NO BEE. This is when the film switches to ~LIVE COSTUME THEATER~ aka poorly constructed costumes and sets (luckily i have no experience constructing costumes or sets, so achieving the poorly constructed aesthetic will be easily achieved). The bee (now a person in a bee costume) will be sitting in his house staring longingly out a window (most likely a flat with a window in it). He will be staring longingly at a beautiful flower (person in flower costume). This is when the music is cued. The music is very important in this film because i will be singing all of it. The song that is cued is a crude approximation of the flower duet which I will sing unconfidentally. Here's that song if you were wondering:
Alright so that song comes in and the bee is staring at the flower. The flower has this dopey look on her face, shes like batting her eyelashes. The narrator realizes whats going on and describes the rare occurence of "bumbus obsession" or something which means the bee is totally in love with that one flower. Okay, so I haven't really solidified the rest of the movie yet, but essentially what happens is the bee tries to like get with the flower or whatever but the flower closes every time it's touched. The bee goes crazy from unrequited love and has all these cray dreams which are basically an excuse for me to smash a bunch of glass stuff with bats and shoot b.b. guns. and in the end of the movie the flowers life is threatened by a grazing animal, and the bee stings the animal to protect the flower and sacrifices his own life even though he couldn't ever be with the flower. (bees die when their stinger falls out if ya didn't know). And then it's sad. and the end. I'm not actually that in love with the end of the movie and I want to come up with something better. and also it'd be cool if this movie were more gay and less hetero (always a good aim for your films btw). So yes that is the basic outline of the movie. The inspirations are the following sources:
1) Jean Painleve, I looooove these documentaries because they are so beautiful visually, and also funny and make science seem poetic. There is not a good version of his famous Le Vampire on youtube so here's one he did on seahorses instead:
2) I have been obsessed with 50's instructional videos screened in public schools for a number of years now. There are a whole bunch on the internet archive. I would need like an essay to write why I love these but here's a great one on "ways to settle disputes"
3) and lastly looney tunes because I find their olden time humor to be charming.
I will post more about this film I am making as it progresses into the production stages.
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