Three Week Assignment - Visually and Aurally Interpretating a Poem
In groups of three or four, create a short film, which visually and aurally interpretates a poem. There will be a choice of five poems. You must choose ONE poem for this assignment. The short film must be two to three minutes long. Think about the poems mood. Record a narration of the poem and you can create a soundscape. You MUST NOT use a music soundtrack. Your artefact should have a beginning, middle and an end, so it should lead in and lead out. If the poem lasts longer than three minutes you may choose a segement of the poem. Your short film should be accompanied by an online group portfolio containing valuable documents and processes you went through during the production of this short film, such as, scripts, running orders, etc.
*When choosing your groups, aim to find individuals who specialise in being creative, directing/managing, camerawork and editing.
The Five Poems
1) "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg.
2) "Said The Shotgun To The Head" by Saul Williams.
3) "New York At Night" by Amy Lowell.
4) "Welcome Your Confusion As A Guest" by Ellen Reiss.
5) "Crowds" by Charles Baudelaire.
Tuesday 12th January 6:40pm
Our Group
As the director of this production I feel my roles are in the management category.
After compiling research from the Internet the overall definition I have found is: a person who is in charge of an activity, department, ororganisation.
My Evaluation
My main intention for the short assignment was to push the boundaries and really put myself out of my comfort-zone and experiment with different work within the project.
I am the director of this production team. As director I believe I make all the final decisions and keep order within the team. My personality naturally tries to make the best decision for everyone without putting myself first. There are five people in total in our group so there were many times during filming and editing sessions where I would have to make the final decision due to a 50/50 split decision in the group.
I feel our strength as a group was the equal contribution from each team member. Everyone wished to experiment with each role and in some aspects we did. We really worked as a team on set and in the editing studio to create a really interesting product.
Our weakness as a group was most likely attendance. This weakness was mostly due to illness or confusion within the group, which is no excuse. As the director of the group I made the decision if someone could take the day off or leave early due to the reason behind the departure.
I feel that if all members of the group were present during all sessions we would have come across less issues than we did, because I think that the team working skill can influence every decision and problem. This is something I feel we could improve on as a group, because at one point or another every member including myself has not attended a session, which I now see as unacceptable.
My Strengths in this assignment were managing the group and making the final decisions during the editing sessions especially.
My weaknesses in this assignment were managing the pressure on myself as leader of the group and trying to control my perfectionist side and create a edit which looked visually impressive without focusing on the minor imperfections of the quality and content of the video.
I feel that I have learnt about myself a bit more during this assignment and personally I don’t think I would like to become the director again. I would like to try being a camerawoman on my next assignment, because I would like to learn more camera techniques and get more comfortable using different technical equipment with the help of other students who know how to use them well.
To conclude, I am very impressed with our short film tribute to David Bowie and I feel my group and I have took a unique path to completing this assignment by creating a short film to interpretate a poem.
Tuesday 12th January 6:40pm
Our Group
Our group consists of Marketa Horackova, Scarlett Clarke, Shannon Bell and I, Shauna Richards.
We began by discussing what catagory we felt confident in individually and what we would like to improve during this project, e.g. I feel that I am good at coming up with new, fresh ideas and I enjoy doing paperwork, such as, running orders and anaylising pieces of work. However, I have never taken the responsibility of directing before so that is a skill that I would like to improve. From this task we then challenged ourselves and chose the roles, which we would like to improve therefore I am the director of this assignment. Shannon is the producer, Scarlett is the Camera woman and Marketa is the Editor. After these decisions we decided to take a look at each others previous assignments and review them to insure what our strenghs and weaknesses were. The physical evidence matched the mental thoughts, so these roles are going to stick throughout the whole production.
Tuesday 12th January 6:55pm
Schedule
Here is a schedule I made as the director to roughly follow to guide us smoothly through the completion of our project.
I have decided that the aim for the first week will be to secure a poem, idea and sort all the pre-production out ready to film in the next week.
The second week we will be filming and editing as we go in a minimum of two locations. Aspects of this schedule could change.
The final week will to review all our work, make sure the edit is complete to a high standard and quality that we all intend to achieve, and the post-productions and evaluations are completed on the blog ready to present our final pieces on the last Friday.
Tuesday 12th January 7:10pm
Ideas from the poem New York at Noght by Amy Lowell
These are just some rough ideas made initially when thinking about various shots we could possibly use
Thursday 14th January 9:50pm
Ideas for the poem Welcome Your Confusion As a Guest by Ellen Reiss
First of all I followed the same pattern as my first analysis, which was to think about different shots we could possibly use. Then, I had three very strong and powerful ideas or themes, one might say, which could convey an emotional story. This was our groups initial intention, because this poem made us all feel very emotional.
Thursday 14th January 9:50pm
Director
After compiling research from the Internet the overall definition I have found is: a person who is in charge of an activity, department, ororganisation.
From this research I have decided that my role is to make the final decision on different aspects of the production, such as, shots, locations, plot, etc.
Also, I provide assistance to all the cast and crew members in my production.
Thursday 14th January 9:55pm
Shooting Schedule
This shooting schedule shows when we will be filming and what equipment we will need each day. It states the location to film in and what the idea for the shot is. This piece of pre-production assist us greatly whilst filming, because we know what we want to achieve so hopefully there is no messing around.
Thursday 14th January 10:15pm
Storyboard
Carrying on from the shooting schedule, this clear and detailed storyboard shows the final scenes of the film. There will be more shots than 19, but I chose these 6 shots to represent the full ending idea of our short film.
As well as images and shot details, this storyboard also includes details on audio that the viewer will hear. In this assignment, sound is very important, because we are not allowed to use one music track and we must keep dialogue at a minimum. We still intend to use a lot of sound in our piece. We will do this by creating a melody and a beat similar to David Bowies songs to resemble his music by using various sound effects, such as, tapping the floor or beating a desk. We also intend on using other lifelike sound effects to convey a natural environment e.g. Car horns, birds tweeting and clocks ticking.
Thursday 14th January 10:15pm
My Evaluation
My main intention for the short assignment was to push the boundaries and really put myself out of my comfort-zone and experiment with different work within the project.
I am the director of this production team. As director I believe I make all the final decisions and keep order within the team. My personality naturally tries to make the best decision for everyone without putting myself first. There are five people in total in our group so there were many times during filming and editing sessions where I would have to make the final decision due to a 50/50 split decision in the group.
I feel our strength as a group was the equal contribution from each team member. Everyone wished to experiment with each role and in some aspects we did. We really worked as a team on set and in the editing studio to create a really interesting product.
Our weakness as a group was most likely attendance. This weakness was mostly due to illness or confusion within the group, which is no excuse. As the director of the group I made the decision if someone could take the day off or leave early due to the reason behind the departure.
I feel that if all members of the group were present during all sessions we would have come across less issues than we did, because I think that the team working skill can influence every decision and problem. This is something I feel we could improve on as a group, because at one point or another every member including myself has not attended a session, which I now see as unacceptable.
My Strengths in this assignment were managing the group and making the final decisions during the editing sessions especially.
My weaknesses in this assignment were managing the pressure on myself as leader of the group and trying to control my perfectionist side and create a edit which looked visually impressive without focusing on the minor imperfections of the quality and content of the video.
I feel that I have learnt about myself a bit more during this assignment and personally I don’t think I would like to become the director again. I would like to try being a camerawoman on my next assignment, because I would like to learn more camera techniques and get more comfortable using different technical equipment with the help of other students who know how to use them well.
To conclude, I am very impressed with our short film tribute to David Bowie and I feel my group and I have took a unique path to completing this assignment by creating a short film to interpretate a poem.
Thursday 28th January 3:38pm
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