Week Seven

This weeks been all about filming, I rented out the camera for a few days and got a lot of shooting done. Firstly on my own, I shot a series of short clips of myself getting ready for an average day. These will be used to create a montage at the beginning of the film to introduce the character, also displaying a series of text to describe his story. I also shot a a few scenes containing household items which produce noise to see how I can manipulate the sound and include it in the film. While doing this, I attempted to create some depth of field while shooting the kettle but I couldn't grasp it enough to use, the background was blurred but the kettle still wasn't perfectly in focus, I may try this again later in the week.  Furthermore I tried to get a couple of shots focusing on the cats to add a bit more flavour, but animals are very hard to work with. I succeeded to get a few interesting shots but I'll probably need a few more if I want to use them use them.

     On Friday, with the help of John Howell we went down and filmed along Gloucester Road. The purpose of this was to create another sound montage of the outside world, showing how with this hearing disorder the world can sound really hectic as there's so much going on at one time. The text will describe how he was able to overcome it and deals with it now but it was hard for him as a child. We managed to get a range of successful shots before sadly, the rain stopped us,  these focused on myself in the outside world, traffic and other loud objects. Hopefully these will be enough to create a smooth a continuous montage.

     I came into a bit of luck while having the camera over fireworks night. Without knowing, the school next door put on a big fireworks display for all the locals and school goers and I managed to get some amazing shots out of our top window looking out to them. I thought I could easily find somewhere to add these, as the films all to do with sound I think I could make fireworks sound quite intense and extraordinary. Plus they look great visually to, with big bold colours on a night sky. Heres one of the shots I managed to capture:

      Finally I am still having trouble finding relevant theory for my film. As its just a made up symtom that I've created, I'm not to sure about what Im challenging theoretically. At the moment I have to concentrate on both filming and starting the post production phase to get this film in motion. When I start to get a little more time, I'll do some more research into this and gather some relevant sources.