Portrait of Place - Editing 07/11/11

Screen Shot 2 - Cutting the chosen shots

Screen shot 3 - Choosing effects and transitions for each shot

Screen Shot 4 - Desaturating each shot and using Opacity for a transition

Screen Shot 5 - Remembering to render!

Screen shot 6 - Adding in titles and looking over the film
making sure we haven't made mistakes

Screen grab 7 - Nesting the last shot for our final cut and reviewing the film.

Screen Shot 1 - Choosing which shots to use

The editing process went very smoothly today as myself and my group new exactly what we needed to do and how to do it. We looked through each shot and chose the shots that were at best quality and which fitted our storyboard, we also chose the shots which felt the most creepy. We then started to edit the chosen shots and cut them to make it flow easy on the eye. We decided to desaturate every shot to keep to the creepy vibe. We didn't feel we had to use a wide variety of transitions as we want to keep them reasonably simple as this will help get the audience in a creepy frame of mind.

We are all pleased with our final film and feel that we have achieved what we set out to do.

Filming Equipment List/ Editing Equipment List

1)      Sony PD170

2)      Microphone

3)      Tape

4)      Battery

5)      Tripod

6)      Camera weather protection

7)      Wet weather gear

8)      Food

9)      Final cut Pro Studio 2

10)   Fire wire cable

11)   Apple Mac computers

Portrait of Place - Shot List

1. Establishing landscape shot/ Extreme Long shot
2. High angle long shot from tree
3.  Low angle long shot
4. Mid shot through the trees
5. Mid shot to the side of frame
6. Panning shot of several trees
7. Low angle close-up of branches
8. Close-up to Long shot
9. Mid shot/ still shot 
10. Tilt up/ Close up
11. Low angle long shot - from ground

Portrait of Place - Initial Ideas 20/10/11

Place:-

Sense of space – Open/ Claustrophobia/ Fear/ Eerie/ Free/ Atmospheric/ Creepy/ 

Physical – Weather/ Rocks/ Trees (Branches, shape of tree can portray a certain mood or emotion)/ Fields/ People/ River/ Streams/ Buildings/

Animals – Birds (Coincide with sense of space?) / Sheep/ Cows/ Insects/

 Emotion – Anger/ Fear/ Depression/ Desire/ Excitement/ Fearlessness/ Frustration/ Guilt/ Happiness/ Hatred/ Love/ Loneliness/ Passion/ Terror/ Seven Deadly sins – Lust/ Gluttony/ Greed/ Sloth/ Acedia/ Wrath/ Envy/ Pride/ Vainglory.  

Possible Ideas:-

1)      Physical representation of the contrast between open and enclosed spaces.

2)      Trees representing emotion – Seven deadly sins/ The  way the tree is formed can represent a certain emotion e.g. Curved or intertwined can represent Love/ Lust

3)      Emotional journey representing in a physical way.

4)      Decay of nature – Urbanisation/ Abandonment/ Decay through time and nature. 

Portrait of Place Project Edale Trip 27/10/11

Before we even went to Edale our group met up and discussed what possible ideas we could use. We used spider diagrams to help narrow down various ideas for the terminology ‘Place’.

After making a decision of our idea we started storyboarding the process of our film. This was quite difficult as we had never been to Edale before and as we wanted to have a wide variety of Tree shots in our film we couldn’t get the perfect storyboard. So we storyboarded what our intention was and also made a shot list. The location was perfect for our film as it had plenty different types of trees and it felt very secluded which fitted with out creepy feel for our film . We used a variety of different shots from Close ups to Panning shots to Hand held shots. All these different shots make the film more interesting to watch as it gives the audience more perspective on our aim.