Contact Sheet

Zach Atherton-Collins

Email: zach1993@live.co.uk

Mob: 07780 008150

Robbie Troth

Email: robbietroth@hotmail.com

Mob: 07805 430353

Debbie Ballin

Email: d.ballin@shu.ac.uk

Tel: 0114 225 2673

Dominic Green

Email: dominic.green@shu.ac.uk

Mob: 07769 845826

Rough Shot List

As we have never been to the location of filming before this, we were basing rough shots from what images we could find on the internet and from what we imagined and been told we would come across. This is not exactly a planned shot list, just a rough plan of what we want to shoot.

There fore everything written so far for the shot list is but a backbone, the supporting foundations for us to elaborate on whilst shooting.

Long Shots: The general landscape, hills, mountains, trees, fields and the sky

Mid Shots: Trees (branches), streams, rivers, stone walls, wildlife

Close Ups: Trees (leaves and bark), streams, rivers, rocks, wildlife

Extreme Close Ups: Leaves, bark, earth, interesting vegetation in general, stone wall, rocks, wildlife (particularly bugs)

POV Shots: A long POV shot of walking through the countryside and looking around.

Rough Storyboards

Proposal

Our idea is to create an experimental documentary, using the rural environment of our location too our advantage. We plan on capturing the natural beauty of Edale in a variety of different ways: The big epic landscapes to the minute natural wonders, and of course everything in between.

In this film there is going to be a very slight narrative. This is how it is going to ‘document’. Were going to have POV shots of someone walking through the countryside in Edale (possibly then sped up) and then cut this up with the shots of ‘natural beauty’ and try edit it in a way too keep the audience interested, because of course there is no sound. By doing this we are trying to show what someone would see if they were to walk through Edale, and look closer at things too.

Video Research

As it is the experimental route we wanted to go down with nature as its main theme I looked at some different videos to gain inspiration and see what other productions in this area were out there.

‘My Father’s Garden’ by Mirko Faienza which I found on Vimeo is a really stunning piece of work, the use of the really close up shots on wildlife and plants work beautifully and that’s what we want to incorporate into our piece. Obviously it wont be in such great detail and quality as this but it has been inspiring just the same.

http://vimeo.com/9519939

‘Timescapes Timelapse: Mountain Light’ by Tom Lowe is also on Vimeo, the awe striking landscape shots are just something else, and I really like the idea of having time lapse shots in our production. Yet again, we could never hope to have a picture of such high quality, but with a bit of luck we can try and accomplish the lighting on some.

http://vimeo.com/6686768

I think both elements out of these two films will work nicely with our idea, the macro shots along with the epic landscapes and mid shots of trees, rivers etc. blending them together.

Edale Research - Location

Edale Research – Location

I researched Edale on the internet, looking for imagery of the location that would give inspiration and so it could give us a grasp of the environment that we would be filming in. The website below proved helpful as it gave a us a general knowledge of Edale and provided images of the scenery.

http://www.edale-valley.co.uk/

With the knowledge that Edale, according to the images online, was home to beautiful scenery and was a rural environment, an idea started to form, using the beauty of nature to create a captivating piece, with a mix of big wide angled landscape shots and macro shots of leaves, cobwebs and then everything scalewise inbetween.

Daybreak Express by D.A. Pennebaker

The directors main aim in this film, as is the films main focus, I believe is to show how the city blooms in the morning, and to show how hectic it is, a god way to describe it is 'organised chaos'. The pace of the film does this, and it relates to that of a journey of a train, at the start its slow, but builds up speed until it hits a rapid pace.

I liked the film, because I liked the link Pennebaker made between the train and the city and the style in which the film is made. I appreciate the camerawork and the editing, they really make it. All the extreme, manic and low angled shots along with the rapidly paced editing exaggerate the daybreak of a city well.

I believe the film is successful in its subject matter, for reasons i have already stated above; it makes a great link with the blooming city and the train and takes the viewer with this idea with the brilliantly crazy camerawork and paced editing.

The element of the film that particularily stood out to me was the colour. The use of colour, in my opinion was brilliant, very vivid and striking and i like the fact that it changed as the pace of the film quickened.