Over the past two weeks I have really got on with both production and post production so get this film into motion. To start with I done some post production work on the shots I had already filmed (see the edit preview) to see what I had done so far and what more I needed to film. I found I had mainly collected most of the middle montage shots which connect the film together but not much of the main content that when edited with sound, would be the interesting parts of the film. To solve this I went out onto fishponds high street with a camera to film some building works for the climax to the outdoors section. I had a few problems while conducting this shoot. Firstly both the camera and tripod I rented had faults, mainly the tripod's spirit level was broken which meant we had to line it up by eye which wasn't perfect. Also the builders I went to film where being typically British and not working much. Which meant I had to spend a long type collecting a range of mundane short clips to put together and then in post production, include some added sound to make it more interesting.
Another important scene I filmed was the concluding light scene for the end of the film. For this I used a special light which displays a constantly changing stream of red and blue lights across the room. With myself sitting in the corner of the shot, looking out onto the light, I placed a a backlight behind me which created a nice shadow of myself on the wall, placed on the other side of the screen, fitting into the rule of thirds nicely. Problems I found filming this were that the light I was using wasn't as bright as I hoped, and I couldn't make the background light to strong otherwise it would over power it completely, so the shot looks slightly grainy. I'm going to have to spend a while tweaking the colour and contrast in post production which will hopefully sort this problem out slightly.
So I almost got all the shots I need now. Most of the introduction, outside section and the conclusion are complete. I'll be having another filming session over the weekend to get the last ones, mostly indoor shots of appliances and other loud objects, for the indoor section. This should be able to be filmed without to many problems.
As my film relies on the power of montage for it's visual shots, I researched around montage to gain a better understanding. One example is from Sergei Eisenstein (considered a forefather of montage) in his 1925 film Battleship Potemkin and one scene in particular, the Odessa Steps Sequence. Throughout this scene Eisenstein uses a fast edited range of shots from long establishing shots which set the scene and capture the size of the action. Combined with lots of close ups displaying the people's emotions as they run for safety and deal with the death that surrounds them. This is also all done without speech and so the power of the scene is told through the music, a very select number of subtitles and a very well put together montage. As my film will also not include speech, this is a great example to watch so gather ideas for my own film and how to express emotion without any script.
This is the clip.
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