Solar

A short film about solar energy today which I combined with Saul Bass's 'The Solar Film' made in 1980. I recorded my own footage and took news clips about solar energy and juxtaposed them against Bass's.

See the HD version here https://vimeo.com/42999425

More stills, these ones I shot from my friend's roof. I went up there to film the sunset and left with these rather pretty films too. I don't think they are being used in my final film but it was a quite calming experience looking out at the lights as the city darkened down into night. Watching people in their homes acting like cave people (but with electric lights).

Stills

Stills from my short film on Solar energy showing a modern take on Saul Bass's film made in 1980 (see previous post). I have collated a series of audio clips from today about the current situation and views towards solar energy then placed them over the visuals from Bass's film. I also took this audio and placed it over my own film (here).

The message is that we are putting ourselves more into the dark by using finite resources like oil and gas. Solar energy, as said in 1980, is our future. Renewable, clean resources are the future. For now, we are okay using oil, but we've reached the peak. We reached the peak 30 years ago. We have the techonology, we have done for decades, now we're getting desperate. Time is running out. Stop living in the dark about solar energy.

I came accross these signs in Dalston. Seems like they're jumping of the Green bandwagon. Quite amusing how obvious it is.

The Solar Film

This is a short film on solar energy by Saul Bass made in 1980. It is about the discovery and impact of oil on life and why our future is on solar energy. The text at the end of the film reads:

The sun gave us a world.
It can give us a future.

Everyone agrees. Solar energy is good.
But it waits last in line
to receive research and development money.

You can change that.
Solar energy could make a major
contribution to our energy needs by 1985.

What are we waiting for.

The Power of the Sun

The focus of my project is The Power of the Sun. The sun powers life, it powers our lives as cave people, we couldn't survive without light. Our homes would not be the same if it were not for the sun's light energy filling our homes during the day. Also at night, an area to highlight in this project is how stored solar energy is transferred to electric energy and used to illuminate the dark.

I found this short video about the sun's energy which could be helpful when planning the outcome.