The film has been fully edited and so I thought I'd go over some of my thoughts of it and the problems that I encountered whilst editing. I am overall very pleased with the footage, there weren't any huge problems just a number of small issues that could have been avoided, such as the image having too much gain, however overall I feel I recovered from them quite well. One of the issues was lighting, which changed quite abit on the day of filming. Though we didn't notice how badly it was changing, this has taught me not to trust my eyes when it comes to light and that bringing a light meter is a very good idea when filming. Two of the shots were simply too dark to use, I suspect that an ND filter may have been left on from a previous shot possibly. To over come this I decided to re-shoot to these scenes.
Another problem was encountered when attempting to edit the scenes that were re-shot, on the day the headphones were not working and so we tried filming without it. When I looked at the footage the background noise was so loud that the dialogue from the characters was very hard to hear. With not enough time to organise another re-shoot I made the best of the footage by dubing it with the audio from the original footage, which was too dark but the audio was fine. This worked well though with more time I would have prefered to re-shoot again and I have learnt not to simply trust the audio will be fine, but make sure it will be by using working headphones, which save alot of time and effort.
For the look of the film I'm going for a very high saturation, party because I like the look and also because I'm experimenting with having the saturation drain away I feel it would be a more effective if the change was as drastic as possible, so going from very high saturation to low saturation is preferable. Originally I was using two layered shots and manipulating opacity, however after meeting with Stu I was shown how to do the same effect much easier and with only one layer.
Overall I'm very pleased with how the footage turned out, depite any problems that I encountered, and now I need to sort out paperwork, the correct formats that are required and editing it into the full portmanteau.
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Inspiration
I thought I'd reflect upon the inspirations behind my section of the portmanteau film. My section is about a man talking with death and facing his mortality.
The original script was inspired by Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels and Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the former in particular. I liked the idea of having the personification of death as a character and having a chat with those he has come to reap. The idea was one I had been interested in exploring for a while and thought that it would be a good one to use for my section of the film. I looked at stuff like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Discworld whilst writing the original script.
Once reveiwing the script and after making the decision to explore the idea of subtly within the script some of the more Discworld and Hitchhiker's Guide inspired parts were taken out and/or changed, however much of the remaining script and style of the piece remains in the final film and they remain great sources of inspiration to me. as a small reference to Discworld, becuase of it being an inspiration, the that Sam reads during the film is "Mort" the first of the Discworld books with Death as the main character.
( Scenes with Death from sky one's adaptations of Discworld novels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpaVFgOlIJ4 )
( one of my favourite scenes from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series exploring reincarnation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5jMQvgE_Vg )
The original script was inspired by Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels and Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the former in particular. I liked the idea of having the personification of death as a character and having a chat with those he has come to reap. The idea was one I had been interested in exploring for a while and thought that it would be a good one to use for my section of the film. I looked at stuff like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Discworld whilst writing the original script.
Once reveiwing the script and after making the decision to explore the idea of subtly within the script some of the more Discworld and Hitchhiker's Guide inspired parts were taken out and/or changed, however much of the remaining script and style of the piece remains in the final film and they remain great sources of inspiration to me. as a small reference to Discworld, becuase of it being an inspiration, the that Sam reads during the film is "Mort" the first of the Discworld books with Death as the main character.
( Scenes with Death from sky one's adaptations of Discworld novels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpaVFgOlIJ4 )
( one of my favourite scenes from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series exploring reincarnation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5jMQvgE_Vg )
Monday, 23 January 2012
Sitting on a bench, chatting.
I thought i'd talk about where the idea of a portmanteau film came from. The idea orginated from an afternoon hanging around in plymouth with Isaac, Ben and Simon. We had just finished a session with Dan, in which we were shown "Coffee and Cigarettes" by Jim Jarmusch. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379217/ )
We were sat down on a bench chatting and I was looking at a wall infront of us, upon which we were reflected, sitting on the bench, chatting. I said that a couple of people sitting on a bench talking would be a nice and simple idea for a film. Then we all started to talk and bounce ideas off one another, Ben, I think, suggested that doing the fiilm as a portmanteau would be an interesting idea. So we all decided to split the film up into four with each of us taking control of a section, acting as writing, director etc. Each would have a similar theme of people sat on a park bench talking. That's how the idea originated.
We were sat down on a bench chatting and I was looking at a wall infront of us, upon which we were reflected, sitting on the bench, chatting. I said that a couple of people sitting on a bench talking would be a nice and simple idea for a film. Then we all started to talk and bounce ideas off one another, Ben, I think, suggested that doing the fiilm as a portmanteau would be an interesting idea. So we all decided to split the film up into four with each of us taking control of a section, acting as writing, director etc. Each would have a similar theme of people sat on a park bench talking. That's how the idea originated.
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