JOURNALING PROJECT No. 1

Journal 

During the past week, I've been thinking about the first two messages of the 3 that I will build my film around. First one is the linguistic, and a quote from the book made me rewrite part of the script and improved my dialogue writings way better- that is, 

"Does the image duplicate certain of the informations given in the text by a phenomenon of redundancy or does the text add a fresh information to the image? (p38)

This made me think about how I've been building my scenes and it has always been building it from the photography standpoint first. I would need a structured and well built or well planned set for me to work on, as elements in the set will always have symbolic meaning that helps with the delivery of the message. So the text in the dialogue is not only to serve as a description of what is going on the film, nor I want it be how the story will be told straight out, but as quoted 

"When it comes to the 'symbolic message', the linguistic message no longer guides identification but interpretation, constituting a kind of vice which holds the connoted meanings from proliferating, whether towards excessively individual regions" 

- it should helps the interpretation of the feelings of the scene, it should amplified it, as I remembered, the films I made last year without any lines already able to create such emotions already, and this time, I expect the dialogue to be able to further extend it. 

The 2nd message, the coded - iconic message is for me, should stem from the set itself, for that I have been walking around campus and downtown to find places for me to film specific scenes that I will include in the file below. 

Film set locations

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