Friday 25 January 2008

The problem with doing Nothing is..

You never know when you've finished!

With my clever entry titles back in force with a humdinger! I thought I would once again update on where we are;

We are at the stage now when we really need to decide upon a final and conclusive way to present our ideas as a whole. We are having no problems thinking of yet new ways of possibly adding to the performance, but apparently being decisive is not our fortay. Our ideas have ranged from many things including;
  • Paper cups blowing around in the wind. A play upon the idea of watching 'rubbish'
  • A film consisting of nothing but Mugs. Creating the suggestion that you are a mug for watching such a thing
  • A whole new gameshow based on complete random chance. Heads or Tails. An obvious play upon gameshows such as deal or no deal
  • An entire film about a day where nothing happens. There is no news, no goings on, no gossip, and certainly no conclusion.
  • Real life big brother. A play on the idea that big brother seems like non real life even though it is simply people living their lives. We have considered filming our housemates without them knowing.
  • An art installation consisting of nothing but a blank television
We must admit that we do like alot of these ideas, and I can even tell you that these are only a few of what we have been thinking of. We really are struggling to do nothing! Alot of these ideas have drawbacks though. Whilst we feel it would be great to do something like an art installation, or even a 15 minute film on just rubbish in the wind. We feel that for this project we would like to find something that does bear some watchability for our final performance. The opposite goes for the idea of the film of a nothing day. The idea itself is great, and it really could have great watchability, but actually, it probably goes too close to being an actual film where things actually happen, and people would consider it to be too worthwhile a performance.

Some deep discussion must follow this, and hopefully simply being able to write it all down will be a good building block from which to take a leap of faith off.

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