Saturday, 16 January 2016

Adaptation A: Tests

Esplorations
Signs you are/were a witch:
  • You are female
  • You are very young 
  • You are very old
  • You are middle-aged
  • You are a midwife
  • You are married with too many children
  • You are married with too few or no children 
  • You have a birthmark or a teat
  • You have a sixth finger, a third nipple or any kind of deformation
  • You are unable to recite a prayer at the top of your head
  • You float when chained and submerged in water (if you don’t... too bad)
  • You confess to being a witch after bring repeatedly held underwater 
  • You confess to being a witch when placed under heavy stones
  • You appeared in someone else's dream doing the Devil’s bidding
  • You are sleep deprived until you admit into being a witch
  • You tried to prove that someone else was a witch and failed
Are you guilty of any of those things? Then congratulations, you are a witch – and likely to be burnt at the stake, hanged or left to rot in a cell. 


Signs you are watching a [director] film:



Some tests if I go down the film director idea (4 signs for 4-5 directors). The format/phrasing is a very rough here but that's how I imagine they could all link one after the other: after a director  is 'unmasked', the film strip slides to the next one. 

3 comments:

  1. You seem very confident in terms of the 'Director' transitions - lovely linking ideas (the countdown, the filmstrip etc).

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    1. Yeah, sorry if this appears too 'confident' or 'set in stone' actually — I improvised a lot when going into After Effects but I reckon it'd be a better workflow to put down on paper the various possibilities worth considering first.

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  2. I didn't say 'too' confident, Julien - jeez... It was a compliment. I meant, it looks to me as if you've cracked the means of transitioning etc. I'm looking forward to seeing which other directors will get your treatment... I'm hoping Lynch might feature?

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