Evaluation

Experimental Evaluationn 2000 Words

Final Project Feedback

The feedback we were given was a mixed bag.

It was suggested that the piece would work better as an installation, being submerged with the sinking colours. Once said I could picture this, and thought that it would indeed create a nice effect, and I know that is what Luke had in mind for the piece if it was possible to do.

As for how it works as a film with all the philosophical meanings that I wanted it to portray I understand that it couldn't quite be perceived through the imagery alone and it was the title and the explanation of the piece that allowed people to understand what it was about.

Still everyone agreed that it was visually hypnotic, and the images and colours were well chosen and the music fit. I really enjoyed the final product and it was fun working with Luke.

Post Production Take Two

Unfortunately I hadn't been able to find any archive footage of what I wanted, so I was happy to leave things as it was. I did a bit of editing, just tweaking to make sure everything fit and flowed well, namely with the images of Luke over the ink.
The images were overlapped by an effect called Overlay which made putting the images together a lot easier

In general, while editing the piece you had to stay concentrated otherwise it could get confusing as there were a lot of slow motion/speed up and reversed shots.

After we had finished Luke was tinkering around with what the other effects did and found something called Difference, which inverted the colours and considering we were using a range of colours the effects were interesting. We then decided to invert our favourite clips at the end of the sequence which I believed would fit in with the theme of The Human Situation, the idea of realising that you are trapped in a world/life that you didn't want to end up in. The knowing causes an internal burning rage but there is still nothing you can do to change the life you are leading. You are trapped.

After that was done there was only the sound left to do, and as Luke knew what he wanted and had explained it to me (Two chord monotonic sound to resonate and flow with the sinking and lifting ink and complimenting the characters slow falling.) he went to a friends to create it that night, before putting it together with the sequence ready for the presentation tomorrow.

[Screen Grabs Luke sent me of the process that him and his friend went through when creating the sound for the piece]

Post Production: Merging the two images.

The images look and work really well together and still manage to stand for good metaphors for The Human Situation, but as I suspected there isn't enough to fill five minutes of screen time.

I am looking for any archive footage or imagery that can maybe fit with what we have, My idea is to have someone dancing underwater but so far I can only find still and no moving imagery of what I have in mind.

The last thing now is to put together the sound element, with changing the imagery the idea of having unnerving, chilling and borderline upsetting sound doesn't seem to quite fit the bill, so we are re-evaluating and trying to find a droning type sound.

Production: Re-evaluation (Thursday 25th April)

As per the previous post we had intended to use a dancer in out piece, but unfortunately the person we had in mind got tonsillitis, which we got told at the last minute. Therefore we had to come up with an alternative plan. Originally it was going to be based off of this trailer for the BBC show Luther


But unfortunately due to space constrictions and where we were filming (S1 Arts space) we had to change the idea and based it off this imagery I had of someone falling in slow motion. Also due to the short notice no other actor could be found and therefore we had to use Luke.

It went really well and because of the white background I think it will work out really well in the post production stage. The only downside is that I don't think we have enough to fill the 5 minute mark.

Revised Shooting Schedule

Production: Practice in the Warehouse (Friday 19th May)

Today we down to Hope Works, a warehouse owned by a friend of Luke's, this is where we intended to have the dance section of the film shot, but due to time constraints we weren't able to get the footage we wanted so decided to use the day as a test shoot. We asked the dancer to do a few moves and inspected the space, noting things that we would need to move around for when we came back the following Wednesday, added the need to use lighting.