Sound List

The sounds we need to collect are mainly the everyday things were showing:

Light switch

Kettle switch

Match being struck

tap being turned on

water

phone being picked up

money spinning

paper folding

Atmos tracks.

Shot List

Close Ups

Everyday things such as turning on lights, kettle, picking up the phone etc.

Ice, Water, Flowers

Smoking a ciggarette

oragami shirt


Mid Shots

Lifting weights, candle, flowers.


Wide Angle

Sky (for timelapse)

Oragami man burning

Contacts Sheet

Zach Atherton-Collins

No. 07780008150

Email: zach1993@live.co.uk


Jordan Jones

No. 07557733802

Email: jonesy0550@msn.com


Owen Feltham

No. 07803174480

Email: owen_feltham@gmx.co.uk

Proposal

Me and my group are going to make a short experimental film based on the word Fragility. Originally we were going to base it on the word 'Life' but thought it was too open. What we propose to do is to show is how things in life weaken and eventually fizzle out.

We shall show this in a number of shots such as flowers then dead flowers etc. then in the edit tying them kind of shots in with shots of everyday life, turning on a light, picking up a phone etc. By doing this we are hoping to show how things do fade away in life, how fragile things are

Hauschka by Jeff Desom

http://vimeo.com/3186143

I really enjoyed this piece, simply because of the visual style and pace of the whole video. I think its kind of ironic because the music is so calm and the pace so slow but it shows a piano falling from the sky which obviously in reality would cause panic.

I think it is visually beautiful and it is an excellent choice of music. I also find it very clever how hes made the film.

Yet again this has opened up my mind to experimental film, this may be abstract but it is obviously not just thrown together in the edit.

Fisticuffs by Miranda Pennell

I liked this experimental video mainly because it opened my mind to what experimental could be. At first I thought experimental films were just all abstract and generally just off-the-wall but after watching this short film I realised there can be a lot more to it than that.

I enjoyed the quirky humour of it and it was obvious how planned and well organised the shoot was. Because all the fights were so well choreographed, it made me realise that some experimental films such as that could not just be shot willy nilly and put together in the edit, but needed to be organised to perfection.

http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/showcase/assets/showcase_items/fisticuffs

Portrait of Place Evaluation

This evaluation will mainly cover the day of the shoot and the camerawork for I was the DOP, I did all the camera work and my partner did all the Editing, and we both contributed ideas to each other in both fields.

On the day of the shoot, a problem occurred with the camera we took out of stores. The batteries, which we charged all night, were faulty in the end. We double checked the batteries the night before the shoot and they seemed fine but when we started shooting, the battery went from full to a quarter after a 30 second shot. It then died shortly after and the reserve battery did not even work at all. Luckily we had a reserve camera, a small Samsung handy cam. We used that and when we took the camera from stores back, the person behind the counter said the batteries must have been faulty. Anyway, moving on, just had to state that because it explains the slightly poor quality of picture, compared to work produced by the cameras from stores.

Camera Work

The camera we now had to uses was fairly simple and I got to grips with it fairly quickly. The footage I believe fitted the requirements of what we needed for our idea. I got a large variety of different shots from Wide Angle’s of the landscape (mountains and trees) to Close Ups of wildlife such as a moth we found on a dead leaf. The POV shot I am very pleased with because the glare from the sun on parts of it really looked beautiful in the edit, especially walking under the branches of a tree looking up and having the sun shining through, flashing as the branches passed it. Of course using the handy cam was a bit of a drawback because we could not use some shots we intended such as a focus pull but we made the most of what we had and I am pleased, and almost surprised at the quality of some of the shots.

Editing

As I stated above my partner took care of the editing but even so, I think I should state that it went really well in my opinion and the use of the different effects to give that old school film style to the footage was very effective. I am very pleased with the final edit.

Working as a Team

I think me and Robbie worked really well together, we both had similar creative ideas in both the camera work and the editing and generally co-operated well as a working pair.

Conclusion

The loss of the camera from stores was quite a devastating blow but we made most of our materials and I am just so glad we had a spare camera! The main thing I would put a lot more energy and effort in to if we could re do this would be the research and pre production paperwork. Because we had never been to the location and could only look at images on the Internet, I think we planned the shots as best we could, but we were mainly going to let the environment influence us on the day. The research that I have done for this project though I believe is not enough and I should of put more effort and time into researching beforehand. I believe though, the project as a whole went really well and I am very pleased with the final outcome. Our piece I think does as we intended it to do, with the POV shots blended with the varied shots of the rural environment it documents in a subtle and experimental way.