For the final plan for Week.7’s pitch and presentation, I’ve decided to create a power point or google slides presentation to help me describe what I wanted to create for Project Brief #4.

I tried summarising what I envisioned for the last past weeks for this final project and what I look for to learn at the end of the semester. I wanted to create a presentation that involves a few of experiments the two that I had conducted so far.

Additionally, the final change I had in mind was the final project brief #4 this semester I wanted to create a ‘series of experiments’ that will end up to be a 1 minute short. Why? Because I wanted to lead my experiments to something – an objective and aim if so and a decent looking series of experiments even if it is just a minute or two. I’ve decided to this also because so that, I could look back on this studio and maybe get inspired from the final project brief to do something bigger. As Paul said “you’re going to create your film maybe in Week. 14 or 15”.

I also decided to create a script to help me present, as well as, guide me during and through the Pitch and presentation. This is because I’d like to be able to help people understand what I am aiming for as vividly as possible and creating a script aids me and the audiences to do that.

This is what my script looks like:

 

SLIDE#1:

So the concept I was trying to examine more into was basically, to investigate the ways in which a simple camera technique like a ‘camera angle’ could somehow be valuable and how it is valuable in filmmaking, as well as, what and why is it meaningful to get a right ‘angle’ in a film. I was interested in this because well like any other camera movement or technique an ‘angle’ is as important as anything else, it produces the amount of space that is seen in one shot and thus, it helps shape meaning in a film. For example, Low Angle, where the camera shoots up on a subject, so, resulting in the subject like an actor looks bigger and increases the size of the focus, sometimes, it makes the subject specifically an actor/character more powerful. It’s these kinds of elements of camera angles that I would like to experiment further.

SLIDE #2:

Initially, the way I was going to approach the idea was basically film something where someone is doing a specific action standing still in a still frame and film them in different angles. But after a couple experiments, I felt like I wasn’t able to understand my idea so, I wanted to get more into it. I decided to then still film a series of experiments but these experiments that I’m going to conduct will end up becoming one sequence, which I’m going to explain at the end of this presentation. In terms audio, hopefully, I can find music to cover up the sequence but I haven’t decided specifically yet. So hopefully, with the experiments happening towards week 12 I’ll be able to manage the audio part of this.

SLIDE #3 and #4:

I have decided to use DSLR Camera instead of the EX3, because I figured I am going to go around a lot, so I needed something handy and convenient.The plan to film the experiments pointing into the same subject – which will be an actor (as I have decided) – doing a certain action (moving) within a variety of camera angles. The action as discussed before was basically walking to a park and sitting on a bench, but it could be the most random thing like getting into cars (as paul mentioned) from a building, lying on the grass or even going to the bathroom – really anything.

The process so far I have conducted two experiment which has resulted in this idea… This is one of the experiments that I did there’s more of it, it’s a one sequence span, but I made it into a gif so I could explain what I have in my mind. I used the EX3 for this one actually for both of them that I am going to show you later on, and found it really difficult to get around into, which why I’ve decided to use the DSLR for the next experiments ahead.

Both are edited in separated sequences – because I was still trying to imagine the way I was going to approach this idea. But since I used the EX3 I wasn’t satisfied enough, because both sequences didn’t involve as much variety of angles as I hoped for and it was also my fault because I didn’t direct more specific and detailed action to the character/actor.