Filming Analysis

Now that our shooting days are done and dusted, I'm taking some time to reflect on how they went and what I learned and gained from them.

We filmed in two very different locations; one was a home and the other was city streets. Obviously the lighting in these two locations had to be taken into consideration as natural light is easily accessible in the outdoor location whereas indoors we had to be reliant on artificial lighting. This factor did cause a few problems for us initially when we began shooting indoors but as we had access to two slightly different cameras [Canon 600D and 700D] as the camera operator I was able to adjust the settings and exposure to work as well as it possibly could with indoor lighting. I do believe we could have used some artificial lighting from the university's media shop but we do not have much lighting experience and would probably have found it difficult setting everything up.

Although we did some filming in the early evening as it was getting darker, we did not face any issues with lighting. It was actually really effective to achieve the dark appearance we are looking for with a film based on such a gloomy topic.

I would have liked to get some practice with the cameras done ahead of filming but as we were limited with time, this was not possible. I feel as though if I had done some practice beforehand the shooting process itself would have gone much more smoothly and quicker. I will definitely keep this in mind for any future projects with camera work.


-Scarlett

Rough version of the story

Rough version of the story:

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Scene opens in a room. A man is sitting on a sofa watching film (Labyrinth), being completely immersed into it. Everything is quiet. Except....Tick..Tock. A clock on the wall is ticking. He either catches the ticking, or the clack starts ringing (alarm). He looks at the time and registers that he is late to work. He quickly gets up, leaving in a hurry. The sound of the clock ticking seazes, we can hear the door shutting. Otherwise everything is quiet. We see him get his headphones out and onto his head. The muffled sound of David Bowie’s music starts playing (Only mashed bits). Alternative is, that the man starts humming and quietly singing the songs. The narration starts here.

He walks down the streets, not interrested in anything. In this sequence the city is shown, the tall buildings, people and traffic never seazing it’s beat.

He gets to work and starts his day. Timelapse.

He is leaving work, again with the headphones on. He goes through the city, when he realizes it has stopped raining. He takes off his hood/hat and looks up. There he sees a big screen showing the news ‚David Bowie is dead‘. What follows is a burst of sound, people talking, laughing, dogs barking, cars honking, clock beating, ambulance horn. The same with vision, we can see snippets of the news, headlines, interviews. After it gets the loudest, everything suddenly stops. Narration ended.

Alternative: He takes the headphones off, and all the normal sound comes in, laughing, talking, etc. And then he notices the news. Everythingslows down, the sound of his surroundings quietens, but the news get highlighted in his mind.

It starts raining again and the man starts slowly walking home. The only sound here is the rain. The man is crying. He gets home, sits down and plays the movie again. The camera will then slowly back away and tilt to the dark sky.

Alternative: The film the man was watching in the morning was on tape and when he returned, the tape was broken.

Alternative 2: The end scene could end with the rain sound and the sound of the wall clock ticking.

End Credits.

All through the film, New York merchandise will be seen, to underline the poems roots in New York and at the same time show the place of death of David Bowie. 

First Running Order

Shot List

-Scarlett

RISK ASSESSMENT NEWPORT

Our risk assessment for our newport location

RISK ASSESMENT CARDIFF

Our risk assessment for our Cardiff location 

Our Final Idea

Our final Idea.

We decided to try and do something different with our poem so we went with Welcome your confusion as a guest. We thought we could make this different and do some interesting work with it. We thought it would work well to go with someone loosing a person they adore, it worked timely with the death of David Bowie so we decided to use this as our base for the poem. We would focus upon the persons connection to the celebrity and their distraught as they learn of his death.