I watched 'The Tree of Life', an American drama film with experimental elements, written and directed by Terrence Malick. I was very interested in the way it was filmed with the experimental elements. I noticed that there is no real order to the shots used, it is almost like a bunch of home movie clips stuck together. Yet, it still had a fluency to it. I thought this was a very clever way to film this movie because it really showed the life of the characters as if it was them who had filmed it, giving the feeling of actually being there. Then, at certain points in the film the shots change to clips of what I think was the universe and space mixed in with clips of nature such as blood vessels. However, I was unsure exactly whether they were definitely space or if they were natural things on earth. These changes in the film made me question the meaning of life and where it originated from, whereas the 'home movie' bits of the film made me think of the good and bad things of life and also that there is a definite reason for life and that every thing has a reason, so the two different parts are a contrast to each other and almost contradict each other.
I would love to take inspiration from this film and use the same idea of adding clips of things relevant to the context of what is going on in the scene, being small clips of the character possibly playing guitar (as that is what we want to show as her main love in her life), these clips would only last for about a second though, and would seem like they were done by someone as a home video or possibly the character filming themselves as if for a Youtube video.
Info on 'The Tree of Life': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tree_of_Life_(film)
Director and Writer, Terrence Malick: http://movies.nytimes.com/person/100893/Terrence-Malick
Interview with Terrence Malick: http://www.lavideofilmmaker.com/filmmakers/terrence-malick-interview-rome-film-festival.html
'The Tree of Life' was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography.
Terrence Malick
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