Textiles I have on hand.

The colors are a bit off in this pic, of course. The bottom left is def more orange.

Mostly fem fabrics but some could be used as accent...

Big chunk of burlap?? Dunno...

Pretty pretty...

storyboard VERSE THREE

 do two trees convey a sense of non-loneliness? a spurt of green amidst red, the sign that the fire is dying out, at least for awhile???

storyboard VERSE TWO

again, an attempt at bringing previously drawn images together....

storyboard VERSE ONE

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i REALLY like your drawings of the fire coming into the house, i think there's a better way to arrange this scene, and integrate that idea (my last image is pretty weak on that front... i imagined red seeping in through the cracks like yours.

storyboard, TITLE

TITLE PAGE/during the musical intro.

there are lots of ways to go with this. here's one idea.

storyboard-- big picture

PART ONE: the storyboard overview. 

NOTE: this is a rough rough draft. with no color... i wanted to get something out into the world so we can tweak it & etc... 

in a field.

church ideas...

i'm thinking now, we do a backlit magic thing on this one.. .but here were some ideas for some pretty puppetesque/popup book solutions for engulfing the church in flames...

each day i'd wake up smelling the dirt

hmmmm

in response--

a choice to be made here-- shadowed or frontlit? (compare fahey's video to any of ours that are cloth/etc)
kathy used fancy light gels to film hers... the puppets are black/white because you just see the sillouhette-- a form of shadowpuppetry ... if we do a front lit crankie, all the color goes onto the paints/drawings...and allows for drawing/painting as opposed to sillouhette cutting. which were you envisioning? i am envisioning front lit, but i am flexible!

i am not super into the angularity here, and feel like the color palate is somewhat unfocused, here... but there are great inspiring mments-- like the sea, especially



current inspirations ROTHKO REDS: http://thraciangirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Mark-Rothko-No-14-1960-7893.jpg and horizons: http://www.arts-in-company.com/art/images-19thc-present/archive/rothko-mark-blue-orange-red-UA-20-7X.jpg for some reason, red in the way an old heavy velvet gown might be: http://mairinocadhla.blogspot.com/2012/08/goldwork-embroidery-and-elizabethans.html the colors you can get out of a skein of wool: http://img1.etsystatic.com/043/0/6810977/il_340x270.508949221_kewa.jpg http://img0.etsystatic.com/039/0/6810977/il_570xN.511175212_wdeb.jpg kentridge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5cngcXqSs

katherine fahey's

totally inspired by her coloring! it could be really cool to begin & end the video in blue, cool tones and change it to red/yellow/orange for dream. i assume we could use stagelight screen thingies for this?

ellen's is super impressive too but it definitely made clear to me that i'm more into the darkness/shadow puppets/light changing route. very into ink and clear lines with color placed within the drawings. (as opposed to coming from a place of blocks of color).

the intro, first lines

i think the very very beginning of the songs - pre-lyrics - would be good just as rolling fields / prairie / a small town silhouette with a water tower, churches. maybe first there's darkness that turns into the landscape?

when i was lonely, when i was nine

(a view to capture distance, isolation and maybe living in a different child-like world, hence it open to the sky and a tree trailing into the room)

i had these dreams where everybody died

some are too awful...

(untellable darkness in dreams)

...for me to retell

but one burned a brand in my skull

cos i saw it coming....

(head in hands, seeing, feeling "it" coming)

(the fire would flow out of that page and then fields would grow from behind it almost. the fire trails out and the fields appear. then i see that far off shot of the lone church in the fields)

MVI 0607 from anna on Vimeo.

a few drawings/sketches.

these are all rough, all based on first listenings of the song.

we could go in loads of directions here. i'm imagining some collage happening for the color?

let me know if certain images pop out to you. scout the interwebs, and your own brain/hand and maybe post some of your own?

not sure what kind of field you imagined... but i keep on picturing fields of wheat...

more wheat. have these cinematic images in my head of running through it... 

the church parking lot...

i tried to stop them... 

think the crankie format will lend itself nicely to some amazing gliding images of big wide fields and wider skies.

the fire. in my mind, this is a collage of paint/oil pastel crayons/tissue paper/fabric