Inspiration

The tutorial consisted of feedback from the Treatment and going from there to find visuals that would best personificate the idea of The Human Situation of which the treatment was based.
Luke had a few visual ideas that he thought we would be able to mimic and would fit with the style.

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It is both visually interesting as well as an interesting concept, of having the whole scene shown backwards with this dancing character who seems completely comfortably out of place.



This whole short has the calming feel and element that I feel the piece should emulate.

Treatment for 5minute Narrative

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Assessment: Production

I had my actor in place to film on Thursday evening and they didn't show up and I couldn't get in contact with them, this meant that I had to quickly change my idea.

I filmed three different ideas:
-A hoover slowly approaching the camera through a trail of mess left for it, kind of like an approaching inevitable monster, as the camera was on the floor was meant to be something that would inevitably be sucked up
-Putting the camera in a bin and filling it up, hoping to make the audience feel claustrophobic before removing the rubbish and allowing the audience to breathe.
-Playing around with the idea of the sink that I still liked as a focal point, the idea of it going from over clean and pure, to it being messed up before being cleansed. Kind of like the idea of wiping the slate clean.

Drawing from the inspiration of an experimental film we watched in class a few weeks ago [about the man shaving blood and the sink filling up] I decided to keep the focus point being the bathroom sink. I had to improvise a bit with the use of colour, I wanted mess but didn't have any dark colours to taintthe water with to give that impression of dirty so instead drawing again from my original idea I went with Red like Blood. I experimented with Tomato juice (which I bought for the original idea) and blackcurrant mixed juice and red food colouring. It was incredibly disappointing that my actor went AWOL and what I had to produce wasn't what I had in mind, but based on the circumstance I am moderately pleased with what I came up with.

Assessment: Pre Production - One Minute

My idea for my one minute individual idea is to have an extreme close up view of someone performing morning activities around a sink.

The camera will move from their feet coming out of the shower and on to them at the bathroom sink [Showing their feet then panning up to the sink] where they will then shave and we seen hair drop to the clean white sink, then they brush their teeth, and we have an extreme close up on their teeth, back to the sink they wash their face before exiting the bathroom, leaving the sink in an uglier state then when they started.

I was going to place my hand over the screen for a few seconds as a way to fade to black as I jump between the sink and the persons facial close ups as a way to hide the rough movements of the camera.

Lesson: Camera-Less Film Workshop

In todays session we looked at the working of a 16mm Bolex camera, this particular kinds of cameras were used a lot in independent films because of their lightness, as well as this they were used by a lot of journalists.reporters because they don't need plugging in, they can be charged by winding it up.

We had a go at making camera-less films, having a choice between using two kinds of films, clear and black. The clear one was easier to use as it only required drawing on the film using permanent marker. The Black film was a lot harder to use, as you had to scratch into it, Though the one below looks scratched into, in reality it didn't penetrate the coating so nothing would show up if it was run through the viewing machine.

We also watched a few experimental camera-less films.
A Colour Box by Len Lye
Boogie-Doodle by Norman McLaren
Rainbow Dance by Len Lye
Two Sisters by Caroline Leaf

My favourite was Boogie-Doodle as I felt that the soundtrack and the bright images made a brilliant ensemble that made for visual enjoyment.



Two Sisters was very inspiring though because it looked so complex, you could see how they best tried to avoid scratching to still give the best effect.




It was an enjoyable workshop and it was good to know that we have the equipment to facilitate such a dying  but antique art-form. It would have been nice to shoot on the 16mm camera, but of course the film is expensive as is to process it.