Now that I have finished uni life has become a lot slower and I have become extremely relaxed. This has been reflected in the music I have been listening to. Bjork's masterpiece 'Homogenic' has been on a constant loop through my speakers. I then found myself dreaming of being alone in an icy landscape with the stars beaming down on me and my breathe clearly visible. I hear something scuttling in the distance. I walk towards the sound and the song 'All is Full if Love' starts to play. As I walk further on, I notice a small light in the distance so I run towards it. The closer I get, the brighter and larger the light gets, the song plays louder. I run faster and faster as the sun starts to rise. I get to the edge of a cliff and realise that I have been following the sun rise. The music stops and I turn to my right and see a doorway standing in the middle of the ice. I slowly move towards it and open the door to a pathway, which has hedges placed either side of it. At the end of the pathway there is an impressive looking spiderweb, which is coated in icicles, making it look like a large snowflake. I break a part of the web and climb to the otherside to another doorway. The door opens for me and the song starts again. I end up on the ice again and lying in front of me is a bed of roses fully blossomed despite the cold.
This image overwhelmed me massively and got me thinking about the relationship between music and images. This lead me to coming up with the idea of making an audio visual film utilising Bjork's 'Homogenic'. The film will follow a young girl named Joga, who is abandoned by her parents in the snow of Iceland. She makes artificial flowers as a way of making money and surviving. Eventually she is taken into an orphanage where she meets a young boy. They become fascinated with each other and eventually developna relationship with each other but the boy is taken away to be housed with a family. Joga makes it her mission to find the boy and travels across Iceland to find the boy.
This will be one of the most rewarding and challenging screenplays to write but I am looking forward to it.
