Editing - Experimental

Editing this experimental was fairly straight forward, we didn't want to over complicate things by using several cuts, transitions, effects etc because we feel that the original footage that we captured was visually strong enough so that it didn't need much post production work. We also wanted our film to be more of an art type piece of work and if we had used many cuts and effects it wouldn't fit our inspirations. We edited the colour balance and colour contrast to make each shot stand out and used simple transitions so that it was easy on the eye, there were a few more complex transitions, this was edited in when the film changed in the middle to the character being outside. Editing the opening and ending shot was fairly straight forward, we slowed down the shot and edited the colour balance to make the shot last longer and look more attractive. All in all the editing went well and it wasn't over complicating which was what we intended.

Filming Equipment List/ Editing Equipment List

•      DSLR 60D
•       Laptop
•      Tape
•       Battery
•       Tripod
•       Camera weather protection
•       Food
•       Final cut Pro Studio 2
•       Fire wire cable
•       Apple Mac computers 

Filming - Experimental

Filming yesterday went very well, we had a rough storyboard but we felt that sticking to a strict storyboard doesn't work best for us when shooting, as we always come up with new ideas and different ways in which the film could me shot at. So we kept to the basic storyboard whilst thinking of new ways throughout filming process. Filming in my house went well as we had plenty of space to work in and the projector on the background wall looked even better than we thought. All the objects used in the film were precisely chosen before hand to match and contrast in each projected background and to our take on Erwin Wurms "One Minute Sculptures". For example in one of the shots, the character is inside of a chair whilst spinning around slowly, and the background is of an aquarium with hundreds of fish, using Erwin Wurm's chair art work of a man looking trapped with a chair over him, and putting it with that background it shows that the aquarium traps the hundreds of fish inside.
Filming outside went very well, we again had the basic storyboard to use as a guideline so we knew before hand which everyday objects the character was going to use. So we used the outside locations and objects pretty close to our original basic storyboard.
The opening shot we are going to use is of a blue smoke blowing across the screen, this was done by simply blowing smoke across the projector and then filming it and editing it in post production after.
All in all the filming went well and I feel the projector shots are very strong but the outside shots aren't as strong.

New Location - Experimental

After deciding not to use the abandoned building, we tried to look for other similar places that we could easily access, but with time running out we decided that we should use a location that we all knew and was very easily accessible. So we decided to film at my house, it was a suitable replacement as we had clear space to film in, and the wall was more than big enough for the projector. We were also near plenty of other objects outside near my house that we could use for the character using everyday life objects.

Location for Experiemental

On the day of filming, we had decided on a location for our film set, it was an old abandoned hotel in Sheffield, neither of us had been there previously, but from what images we have seen and viewing it whilst walking past, it looked perfect for our film and for a nice background and atmosphere for our film. Inside the building was completely demolished, and walls bear which would give us plenty of room for our projector, also there would be plenty of objects inside we could use for the Erwin Wurms inspiration. When coming to the location we found it very difficult to actually get into the building itself, it was too dangerous for the equipment to be moved around in and also dangerous for ourselves to be inside there when the building was practically falling apart. It was a great location and I will keep it in mind to use it for future projects.

The character - Experimental Film

We began to think of the protagonist and what he/she will represent in the film, we thought not revealing the gender of the character it would make a stronger statement as the person would represent everyone, society, government, war, media, religion etc. Everyone as a whole, and by using a morph suit we thought this would help in concealing the person’s identity. It would also leave the audience plenty of questions and views as to who the person represents in the film.
We also wanted the character to be something not from this world or an "Alien" type of character, to fit in with Erwin Wurms inspirational art work and our take on them, so by having the character using these objects in motion picture we thought that as the images are so obscure and random, by having the character an almost "Alien", it would add to the humour of this work.

Mood and Emotion

 I thought of using mood and emotion as another theme in our experimental film. And Luke thought of a good way of conveying this. He thought of using a projector to project images and colour onto the background to convey different emotions and mood. We thought this would be an effective way of presenting the different types of emotions and moods such as, Anger, Love, Happiness, Unhappiness, Psychotic, Sin, Peaceful, Aggression, Anarchism, Contentment and pleasure etc.