Our first day we went to cemetery and just experimented with whatever we saw. This was great, we just ‘broke the ice’ with the space of the cemetery and got slightly more familiar with it all. The footage we took from that first day we weren’t too happy with. We all thought about the space some more, planned some re-shoots and things we had thought of in the break between and decided we should go back.
A major realisation I took from it is the patience that is required during the process of filmmaking, and how I got most of the final products footage from the last day of filming. The last time I went there was when I saw details of the cemetery, the small statues and the beauty of it, and how me trying capture the essence of this space will be from the interesting uniques details of it. The cemetery is so vast and big that it’s hard to comprehend, in real life and on screen.
The colour used in this piece is something that I am very proud of. Colour correction is a bit foreign to me, something that I take for granted when I watch films or something that I think is purely done with lighting on the set. However when I really started experimenting with all different types of colour correction in the video I started to realise the value it can have with how the overall aesthetic can be interpreted. The pink in the video really gives great value and a real sense of cinema to the video. It’s more cinematic. It’s more visually interesting. An element of unreal that works.
A common mistake i’ve been doing in previous works and even referring to the first piece I did for this subject (me vacuuming my house) is rushing the shots and not giving it time. And even if the camera is not rolling just looking around, taking it in and just trying meditate on it. I think this is hard to without making sure you spend lots of time at the set, thorough pre-production or re-visiting the set over and over again. I did the later. I went the cemetery 6 times over the semester, and every time gave me greater insight.