Wednesday 13th December: Colourful Commentary Concerning Cutting edge Content (Task 3)
Creative Project Development and Realisation - Task 3
The class had so far bested two out of the three challenges thrown at us thus far. Through excellent collaboration, in-depth analysis and fantastic hair, Ryan and I were faced with out biggest task yet. A 3 minute Experimental film simply requiring us to focus on a sense of space. The stage was set, our minds at the ready, we got to work.
What kind of work?
At first, we weren't sure what we'd focus on. The films we'd made so far were both a little bit like a montage. Images and sounds flowing together in an abstract mish-mash of content we'd filmed. Entertaining and interesting, but there was certainly a lack of direction. Personally, I tend to try and put some sense into my films. So far, I hadn't, due to the fact we were supposed to be experimenting right? It wasn't supposed to make sense, it'd be too close to the norm. But this time I wanted to make something a little more linear than a media montage. I had a few conversations with Ryan over the internet and eventually proper idea generation began:
What happened next?!
Over the next few days, conversations were had which included a myriad of ideas! Here's a small extract:
And an idea was born! We quickly decided to go for an idea merging two points we'd brought up about perspective and filming a close-up of an eye for a scene! And within hours, we had a film date planned, Ryan had a Storyboard drawn up, and I had an actor roped in! The storyboard looked like this:
And the Actor looked like this:
A few days later and the film shoot was a go! We had decided to film up in Cholera monument park! Both me and Ryan had been up there before and we both agreed it would be a quiet flat area to make the film in plenty of time! It had quite the sights too!
To start, we found an area, and set up a pencil, like so:
And tested out the perspective of said pencil with the camera we had:
Everything seemed to be in order, so we got to work filming! The idea was to incorperate a sort of stop motion technique into our film. Instead of filming a smooth arc of motion with the camera, we would take individual pictures and edit them together quickly later to give the illusion of motion! Now that I've seen the finished result, it's one of the things I'm happiest about in regards to the film's technical achievements! However, at the time we had no idea how this filming technique would go! But then, I suppose that's what made this task experimental!
After a total of two days up in the park filming, we came away and started the rough edit! What follows, was probably one of the best decisions I'd made for the film. We were told to have something to show at the next session we had booked in. A very rough version of the final film. Unfortunately, by the time we reached the deadline for the rough version, I'd been so caught up trying to animate the pictures together that I'd not had time to work on any sound for the film. As a result, it was completely silent.
About half an hour before my session, I decided sitting in silence watching the few bits of the film we had would be rather boring! So I took a few minutes to sit down and record very basic commentary over the top! It would provide basic entertainment and would hopefully be informative! The rough version of the film can be seen here:
Video: https://youtu.be/DTIYXeCVkqA
As a result, when it came to receiving feedback, we got a rather conclusive point.
Everyone seemed to want us to keep some form of commentary in the film! It was too entertaining apparently! So a small decision I'd made changed the entire course of our film! We decided to edit the finished version as originally intended, however now thanks to feedback, we needed to include commentary of some form. It took a while but we eventually finished our film. You can see it at the end of this blog after these 6 images!
6 Image Task
One of the tasks we were given was to show 6 images we feel best represent our film! These are mine:
One other focus of the film was to actually show the behind the scenes process in a limited fashion. I feel we did this relatively successfully. So here is a picture of us setting up some of the stop motion shots on Robbie.
And now to show you the final product! I hope you enjoy it!
Video link: https://vimeo.com/246748913
Deconstruction Production from Cameron Hunter-Spokes on Vimeo.
The class had so far bested two out of the three challenges thrown at us thus far. Through excellent collaboration, in-depth analysis and fantastic hair, Ryan and I were faced with out biggest task yet. A 3 minute Experimental film simply requiring us to focus on a sense of space. The stage was set, our minds at the ready, we got to work.
What kind of work?
At first, we weren't sure what we'd focus on. The films we'd made so far were both a little bit like a montage. Images and sounds flowing together in an abstract mish-mash of content we'd filmed. Entertaining and interesting, but there was certainly a lack of direction. Personally, I tend to try and put some sense into my films. So far, I hadn't, due to the fact we were supposed to be experimenting right? It wasn't supposed to make sense, it'd be too close to the norm. But this time I wanted to make something a little more linear than a media montage. I had a few conversations with Ryan over the internet and eventually proper idea generation began:
What happened next?!
Over the next few days, conversations were had which included a myriad of ideas! Here's a small extract:
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| His name is Robbie, he's a friend from school and had a great time filming with us |
After a total of two days up in the park filming, we came away and started the rough edit! What follows, was probably one of the best decisions I'd made for the film. We were told to have something to show at the next session we had booked in. A very rough version of the final film. Unfortunately, by the time we reached the deadline for the rough version, I'd been so caught up trying to animate the pictures together that I'd not had time to work on any sound for the film. As a result, it was completely silent.
About half an hour before my session, I decided sitting in silence watching the few bits of the film we had would be rather boring! So I took a few minutes to sit down and record very basic commentary over the top! It would provide basic entertainment and would hopefully be informative! The rough version of the film can be seen here:
Video: https://youtu.be/DTIYXeCVkqA
As a result, when it came to receiving feedback, we got a rather conclusive point.
Everyone seemed to want us to keep some form of commentary in the film! It was too entertaining apparently! So a small decision I'd made changed the entire course of our film! We decided to edit the finished version as originally intended, however now thanks to feedback, we needed to include commentary of some form. It took a while but we eventually finished our film. You can see it at the end of this blog after these 6 images!
6 Image Task
One of the tasks we were given was to show 6 images we feel best represent our film! These are mine:
As much of the film was very eye-centric, I feel like not including a shot of an eye would be a crime
A forced perspective shot here shows exactly how we planned for much of the film to go. We could have made it more convincing, but at the time we just wanted to see how it would end up looking in the end.
We filmed the entire thing up here in one park with a splendid view! The location had to be one of my 6!
Let's face it, without the comments of the rest of the class, the film would have been entirely different, it would have been much more surreal in nature than it is now.
Since the film was so commentary reliant, I decided to include the microphone I used. Equipped with a pop filter, I'm able to get incredibly high quality sound from this piece of equipment.
And now to show you the final product! I hope you enjoy it!
Video link: https://vimeo.com/246748913
Deconstruction Production from Cameron Hunter-Spokes on Vimeo.
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