Brandon John Barnard

  Hi all! I thought I would write about my most recent film ‘ Tinfoil Candy ’, how it came to be, and any other interesting points. The initial thoughts started brewing on the 1st of July 2024. I had accepted a short-term lease at the art gallery KARST in Plymouth. It was an empty studio, and I wanted to play around with chance. Karst Studio in Stonehouse, Plymouth. Since I was in a new place, with very few pieces of equipment, or any other resources, I decided to pop into the nearby Aldi to see what I could use to make a film. As always, I wanted to focus on  chance . In the end, I decided on two items to add to my shopping basket: tinfoil, and M&M’s (I wanted Smarties, but none were being sold ;u;). M&Ms: The original idea of these was I would pull two M&Ms randomly from a bag, and these would dictate what colours the light would be in the next scene, with one colour on either side. Also, the specific colour hues of the lights would be made to match the M&Ms ...

  I have started committing fully to the process of, while I am reading a book or into a topic, creating a web of each element that interests me via Clip Studio. Web exploring themes of ‘chance in filmmaking’ for my PhD proposal This formed, like many academic practices, as a solution to a problem. I wanted to see which ideas/people/events were linked to each other, and by making the connection, what new ideas emerged. Sort of like doing chemistry in the dark, I would grab two elements on different sides of the spider diagram, and ask the question ‘how are these connected?’. Sometimes, there is none, or at least none that do not make me come across as someone rambling to themselves on the bus. Though, when there are, its impossible to un-see the connections. Originally, this process was done with mostly my (digital) notes, with some multimodal elements such as screenshots. Looking at how chance exists or had been used in some of my previous works. What stopped me from embracing thi...