An assignment I received quite awhile ago to tell the story of a poem without using people in any of the shots. The hardest part of this project for me was finding a poem that I liked. It had to be between one and five minutes and it needed to tell a story. I chose a poem called Sidewalk Chalk.
I really connected with it and thought it told a beautiful story. I spent the next few days storyboarding and soon after began filming. My vision was to have lots of shots of sidewalk chalk being washed away in the rain. I went home on a night it was supposed to rain and drew some elements I wanted to implement. Of course it didn't start raining until 3am so it was safe to say I didn't get the shots I wanted. I then began to rethink my idea. After an aborted attempt to come up with a new idea, I took a step back.
About a week later I was hanging with a fellow cinephile and I was in the mood to go drive around in the country with the windows down listening to indie music and dancing in fields. And that's what we did. We just took our camera and ran around with it. No tripod, no white balance, no focus, nothing. When I got back to school and looked at the footage, I knew that that was what I wanted to use. I was trying to find a poem and a poem on the album cover of a band I really liked popped into my head. I grabbed the audio and a camera and for the next few days I just filmed what I saw. And I liked what I saw. And this is what I saw.
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