Working from film was inevitable. It is how many of us go to escape the pressures of everyday life. We exit into a new world of fantasy where we can suspend disbelief for two hours. We invest our energy into fictional lands and characters. However at the start of this project I was not sure how or what I wanted to express. Early on my film stills were a result of pausing each film at the same time. You can see an examples of these above. I decided after a group crit that my compositions were not working and I began being more selective about the images and cropping them.
I took a visit to Cineworld in Ipswich and met up with Manager Lonni to take some photographs inside the cinema. I took photographs of the popcorn stands and inside the theatre. I find it interesting that we have all these other sounds going on such as the popping corn, pouring of drinks and the bustling of crowds before entering the screen. It is a tremendous assault on the senses as there are big bright lights and colours, loud sounds and crowds of people. I have not ruled out the option of recording these sounds and partnering them with my current paintings. The noise may add to the intensity of the character’s expressions.
