Time Documentation, Manipulation, and Expression: Three Ideas

Below are my 3 ideas for my film:

My first idea deals with the concept of deja vu. In doing my research on time, I started wondering about how people handle the displacement of time in relation to one's life. Time, for many of us is an ever changing variable, one that we ourselves determine. This first idea would reflect, some of my own personal ideas about deja vu; specifically if our time spent is pre-planned, or lived once before.

It would be an extension of my own experiences with deja vu. As crazy as it may seem, there have been times where I feel as though I experience dreams i have had before, almost as if my dreams acted as a glimpse into the future. Strangely enough, I forget them as soon as i wake up, only remembering them again right before they happen. Being the stubborn individual that I am, I would try to alter the course of things that happened in my dream. I would test and see if things went the way they "should" go, or if I can change what happens entirely.

Again... I do not know if this happens for real, mainly because altering the course of events does not prove the legitimacy of any of these events happening. They are all feelings.

Still, I would like to maybe use this idea, documenting an individual attempting to change the fate of those around him, playing with his own perception of time to affect others.

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My second idea involves the concept of trying to replace time once lost. Every now and then, we all make mistakes. Sometimes we make mistakes that we want to desperately fix. My second film would document someone spending an hour trying to fix that which he or she "believes" to be unfixable. The concept, much like my older one involves the manipulation of one's personal time, but extends out to the time of other individuals as well, depending on the situation I use. A definite situation has not been decided yet, but I do like entertaining the idea of heart felt apologies.

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My last project idea relates to something I call the "ever-shifting balance of time..." and what happens when one spends time out of his or her day to help others. When this happens, an individual is subtracting time out of one's own duties to extend the amount of time another individual has to do other things.

In the film, the individual would indeed spend his or her entire time helping others, dedicating no time to oneself. Is this more taxing on the body? Does the individual tire quicker? Become restless? When the video is cut, one will be able to get the sense of time passing through the actions and mannerisms of the individual recorded.

This idea is more of an experiment that the others, yet I find the idea of "giving one's time" to someone else having a direct effect on one's physical and mental state an interesting idea to try.

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