By Lia Collier
My introduction audio consists of a quick get to me and my interests and future passions throughout my creative studies at LCC. I chose the opening sound of the cinema as I find this to be my happy place where I am at peace and ready to sit back and enjoy that is what I want you to experience throughout my blog. This is followed by the sound of a cinema projector to carry on the sense of being in the cinema as I introduce what is next to come.
Script:
- Sit back relax and welcome to my blog
- I am Lia and this is my space to show you what I’ve been working on
- This will include a mood board of my life, a personal creative short story and storyboard of my short film for next year
- I am mainly driven by my love for film it is how I experience creativity and explains my love for the visual as you will see throughout my blog
- Some of my favourites are boyhood, seven, almost famous and a new favourite Anora which I’ve just seen
- I am born and raised in London which inspires my fashion and style choices another main interest of mine that you will see throughout my mood board
- My future plans are to dive even deeper into film while also exploring print and stop motion another part of film that I love
- I hope to learn how to create posters and zines
What is my mood board?
My mood board is cultivated from photos taken in my everyday life I feel this gives a deeper insight into who I am and what I love as they are my actual own experiences. This will go on to help form my creative image that I will show throughout this blog and my projects over the year.
This mood board includes images of family, friends, and my boyfriend these people are main factors in my life as I take inspiration from them and my experiences, I share with them such as my weekly cinema visits with my boyfriend. I chose this to show the beauty of individualism and how not only do we learn from each other but unknowingly allow others to influence our interests.
It also includes places I have been and what I have worn and eaten highlighting my interests in cooking, fashion and going to pubs to enjoy the atmosphere and play pool. They all share a cosy but vibrant theme of colour and aesthetics which I feel reflects me as a person as I may dress boldly but am a massive homebody and sometimes shy.
Additionally, I have chosen a darker colour palette of red, blue, black, orange, and white. Due to it getting colder now I find my choice of colour to change with the weather as I am someone who adapts and is easily influenced by my surroundings. The choice of a hectic collage with frames of ripped paper and rolls of film represent my love for film and fashion magazines and the process that go into making those forms such as collaging and the trial and error of planning.
Creative writing short story:
-In my short creative story I will depict my own experience of loneliness.
You never know how much you love something until it vanishes in front of your eyes. When I was 19 an ambitious but naïve girl I moved away to study, ecstatic with the idea of a new life as I had grown bored of my old one. This high expectation would soon plunge lower than the ground itself it would crash straight into the earth’s core. That year I learnt the true meaning of loneliness.
Loneliness comes with being alive it is a pain we all share but we must suffer through alone as I would learn. My four walls became my armour protecting me from disappointment while trapping me with my own thoughts. As the days blended into weeks and those weeks blended into months, forming one huge blur in my life, I indulged in my interests with my cinematic projector set up as I immersed myself in film from being a soldier in 1917 to working at vogue in Devils wears Prada. As I sat inside my four walls with my one rather large window to the outside world, I became a watcher a watcher of life going by. I laid in bed and filled my time with movies and working and any other little joys I still possessed. Some days you cannot help but succumb I had worn my mask as long as I could but nothing can hide the truth, I was lonely. I could not help but lock myself inside and avoid all that is real as some how the loneliness became my friend as it deceives me into thinking this is life from then on. Wake up, study, eat, work and sleep. Repeated again and again as I sank into the whirlpool of routine to survive. After all this, I learned the love I had for London and my old life. How I missed my ten minute walk to work and how I missed serving hundreds of Guinness on rugby day. I missed homemade dinners with my family and boyfriend and the quickness of the Victoria line. Now I knew what I had lost all I had to do then wait.
Still dirty from dragging myself through the year I was finally rewarded with home as my sweet charming whisked me off in that glossy red rental car filled to the brim with my life in bin bags. The regular Victoria line still running and the rugby fans still hungry for Guinness as if London itself had waited for me as it welcomed me home. Although now I am home, I feel it lurking around every corner like a relentless stalker just waiting until once again I am alone and allow it to take over me like a virus. Poisoning me but no not again now I had lost my life I know just how beautiful it is and worse everything could be. My pain turned into hope and made me adore my little London life like an old friend.
Story Board:
This is a layout of the short film I hope to create in E2 next year. It will display not only visual examples but a breakdown of the context to the scenes and the type of shots.