Visual Metaphor Proposal

I. Project Title

The Gaze

II. Team Members

Jingyi Yang, Rachel Duan

III.  Concept | Storyline

       1) Who are you going to interview? Or What is the piece (article, poem, story) for the narrative voice over?  

• Murmur content —— AU edit version
  • Murmur recording (Left/Right channels)
  • Some clearer words in between 
• 1-2 poems about experiences as women
  • Lines of the poems inserted to different places of the film

       2) What’s the story about?  

• About a girl who has been watched (eyes), denounced (mouth), pointed (finger), throughout her life, and in the end, she becomes that kind of person.

       3) What kind of style/aesthetics are you going to pursue?

• Color to dark; every time a gaze component (eyes/mouth/finger) from seldom to frequent
  • Everything happened during a complete process, the girl wears a colorful skirt(eye), she starts to put on makeup (mouth), she walks out of her room (finger points at her).
  • As the gaze becomes more frequent, the girl’s perspective starts to shake / gesture begins to crawl and she squats on the ground
• Short black screen, then climax: the female protagonist starts to internalize the gaze’s logic, and inspects, denounces, and points to herself in the mirror. 
  • Changes her costume to regular, conventional clothes
  • A shot of the female protagonist standing and staring into the mirror, then shots of her eyes, mouth, finger
  • Followed by a shot of her staring into the mirror, dragging the audience out of the mirror
• Shift to first-person perspective at the end to include all women into the scene
• Optional poem snippets

IV. Execution Plan

       1) What equipment are you going to use when shooting the movie? (cell phone, DSLR camera, sound recorder, stabilizer..)

• Cellphone (for shooting and recording), DSLR camera, stabilizer

       2) Which locations will it be shot at? When is it? Day time/night/unknown? Why?

• On the street (first part of the story, before the girl’s transition) during the day
• In the dorm (makeup & facing the mirror) during the day

       3) What are some challenges you might encounter and how will you prepare?

• Taking shots of the street because we might be able to go out due to quarantine

V.  Storyboard Draft

VI. Gantt Chart

Task	Owner	Start Date	Due Date	Duration	PCT of Task Complete
Storyboard	Jingyi	2022/4/26	2022/4/27
Murmur sound content composition (2 types)	Both	2022/4/27	2022/4/30
Murmur sound record	Both	2022/5/1
Murmur sound edit	Rachel
Find the proper BGM	Both
Find a proper poem / write one	Both
Shoot the video	Both
Edit the video	Both