For these ideas, I have considered cross dissolves and the integral device to show passage of time, however, i have also considered jump cuts, in order to show change in a more abrupt and clear manner...
This is a simple idea, but with the help of consistent and equally spaced jump cuts, wide angles, tight angles and multiple viewpoints, the passage of time will be illustrated and documented by this one, single glass, the ice inside of it. And the only noticeable progression in time, will be the ice itself, melting and succumbing to the constant, unforgiving movement through 60 minutes.
2) The movement of cars in front of a gas station or supermarket, a place where people spend a considerable amount of time, but also where the vehicles and their owners will be consistently changing within an hour.
I would like to focus one person, object, or spot in the gas station or grocery store, in order to better illustrate the contrast between the moving, and unmoving throughout the course of one of the busiest hours of the weekday (5-6 p.m.). With all other things moving around this one specified element, one will be able to see time in the form of the rush of people during this hour.
3) A view of the sleeze and slime around lunchtime, or another busy space of time (dinner?), but a crowded place such as this, to illustrate the passage of an hour and the coming and going of students and faculty.
Again, the focus here would be on one person, sitting with multiple people throughgout the hour in the cafeteria, restaurant, cafe, bar, whatever. With the interaction of people together, I'm hoping that the feel of the video will move from one end of the spectrum of crowded to deserted, and that the one person, although not always alone throughout, is unchanged, and unmoved, as others pass through in that one hour.
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Filming a crowd of people around a grocery store for an hour could be interesting, especially if you changed the speeds of the shots or really focused on a few individual people for a while. That sounds creepy, but I think it could be interesting to see how different people approach something as mundane as a grocery store.
All three of your ideas are very simple. I think that in order to make an interesting film from them, you will have to approach them in an abstract manner, explore them thoroughly, or add something to them.
To me, the second idea stood out from the rest as something I personally would want to watch, although I would like to see an underlying concept or statement incorporated into the film.
When working on your supermarket idea, consider the vertical angle at which you shoot you film. Whether you shoot from the floor, or above like a surveillance camera will radically alter the expierence. Are you shooting it from anyone's point of view, or it the camera intentionally supposed to be out in the open?
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