Mood Board - Portrait

When developing ideas for the self portrait piece, I decided to document some of the aspects I am thinking of including. Rather than choosing to tell a continuous story, I think I would like the video to be a montage of unrelated clips that all demonstrate something significant. However, to make the portrait have an unusual edge to it, I would like to make some of the clips not so obvious as to what they are showing. I have come up with an idea to include people who are important to me, however, rather than showing them on camera, I want to give the camera to them and ask them to film something that interests them. This wouldn't be clear to the audience as to what it was showing but I would know what those clips represented. One of the first aspects I thought about was the colour scheme. When thinking about colours I like to look at or wear as clothing, I tend to lean towards a mono colour palette of black, grey and white. Therefore I am going to think about using a greyscale colour scheme. This is something I can experiment with in the editing process. For this video, we must include ourselves in some way. I think I would like to use my eyes and just have a subtle hint of me in the video rather than appearing in it completely. This then lead me onto thinking about including make up in some way. When I get up in the morning, doing my make up is something that gets me ready for the day and makes me feel like I am ready and complete. Therefore I have come up with the idea of filming my eyes bare and documenting the process of putting makeup on them until they look finished. I think I will increase the speed of this to fit the time frame and have this section as something that will continue through to the end amongst other clips, with the last clip being the finished eyes. I also thought about some hobbies and interests I have including photography so I would like to find some interesting locations to film including a route I take on a daily walk as it is visually appealing and something I undertake each day. I would also like to show my interest in reading and watching films in some way, maybe replacing the lack of dialogue with quotes on the screen.