- Tired Eyes
"Tired Eyes" is a
documentary film , directed byJoe McStravick . The film explores thedream patterns and experiences of people who areblind or partially sighted.Background
When assigned to make a documentary at University, writer Alex Jarvis approached Director
Joe McStravick and the rest of the production group with a concept for a documentary, based on a question he had been recently asking himself "What doblind peopledream about". This was then expanded to "what doblind or partially sighted peopledream about?".Production
A local community care centre for the
blind and partially sighted agreed to let the team speak with their residents and to use their faculties for the interviews.Two members of the crew held the low-key interviews using only a standard
mini disc player for recording audio - no cameras were used during the interviews. Seven people - of various age groups, backgrounds and countries gave interviews.After the interviews had taken place the recording transcript was then used as a basis for further research into the blind, partially sighted people's lives at the
Royal National Institute of Blind People . They also looked into dreams and dreaming patterns from various texts and sleep research institutions, like the Sleep Research Lab atLoughborough University , EnglandDue to the zero budget the crew had to use various types of mini-DV and DV-cam Camera's at various times during 2 months.
Post-Production
In post-production it was decided that four of those seven people would be used in the final ten minute
film .The director approached
Composer andSound Designer Jay Enticknap (aka FM Umlaut) with a final cut. The director wanted a musical theme for each of the four people (interviewee's). For two of them, he wanted "simple" theme's in the vein of oldJohn Carpenter score's like Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween orThe Fog . For the other two interviewee's, Jay Enticknap used his ownhip-hop andfunk influences to create score's which reflected their respective Middle Eastern,African and Urban backgrounds.For the soundtrack Jay Enticknap would carry out all sound department duties himself, form
Foley to design, mix and dub.External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443778/ Tired Eyes] Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/code/InternetHome.hcsp RNIB] Royal National Institute of Blind People - website*
* [http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/hu/groups/sleep/ Sleep Research Centre] Sleep Laboratory at Loughborough University, England.*
* [http://www.healthyeyes.org.uk/index.php?id=156&type=33 What blind people see] healthyeyes.org
* [http://www.tvu.ac.uk/academic_departments/Faculty_of_the_Arts.jsp London College of Music & Media] University website
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1852138/ Alex Jarvis] Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1626737/ Jay Enticknap] Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.myspace.com/fmumlaut FM Umlaut] Web page
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1626379/ Joe McStravick] Internet Movie Database
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