Naming the Film
When It comes to theme like the elements, it is important to understand the subject of it before going any further. obviously naming the film "Elements" on its own seemed too mundane and obvious. So as the writer for the peace I felt the responsibility of understanding the history of the subject. it is important to understand the historical side to be able to produce something conceptual for the viewer. at the beginning I had the feeling that the whole film should give off a tribal feel to it, but then again after research I realised that it was much more than that, and it has also inspired what the project was going to turn out to be. I decided to start of by research the name, and by the end of my research I came to the conclusion of the word "Al-Kimia" which is translated to the modern day study of "Alchemy".
First I had to ask myself the most important question of the whole project, what is alchemy? from the information that I have gathered and understood, was that alchemy was just a philosophical tradition that claimed to give superpowers. these superpowers were achieved by special chemistry. chemistry that involved combination of certain elements that would give eternal living, and is usually associated with the common "philosopher's stone" (which seemed to make its way in popular culture).
Etymology:
When It comes to theme like the elements, it is important to understand the subject of it before going any further. obviously naming the film "Elements" on its own seemed too mundane and obvious. So as the writer for the peace I felt the responsibility of understanding the history of the subject. it is important to understand the historical side to be able to produce something conceptual for the viewer. at the beginning I had the feeling that the whole film should give off a tribal feel to it, but then again after research I realised that it was much more than that, and it has also inspired what the project was going to turn out to be. I decided to start of by research the name, and by the end of my research I came to the conclusion of the word "Al-Kimia" which is translated to the modern day study of "Alchemy".
First I had to ask myself the most important question of the whole project, what is alchemy? from the information that I have gathered and understood, was that alchemy was just a philosophical tradition that claimed to give superpowers. these superpowers were achieved by special chemistry. chemistry that involved combination of certain elements that would give eternal living, and is usually associated with the common "philosopher's stone" (which seemed to make its way in popular culture).
Etymology:
The etymology of the word is still completely perfectly known, however, history speculates that it was based on the Ancient Egyptian word "kēme" which in hieroglyphics was Khmi which suggests it meant "Black Earth"
the word was then taken by the Greek and named it "χυμεία", since it wasn't really something you can pronounce it was given the definitive word and greek translation of "chemia". that word has then gone to the Arab World "which is now the oldest word for alchemy that can be pronounced "Al-Kimia" (الكيمياء) and this is what we called our project since its the oldest thing we can refer to as for a name. however it was a huge science study in medieval times. it was then taken from the arabic word and translated once again to the medieval latin word of "alquimie" and then finally to the modern English word of "Alchemy."
The study of the word is very remarkable, because it means it has affected nearly every culture in every single time period.
The study of Alchemy is what defined the four elements and components.
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