In this project we began working on collaborative process of our final film. We formed a brief stylistic reference by each collecting fashion films that we found to be compelling and aesthetical pleasing. From this we found that our styles and quite diverse, which is something that I think will benefit our overall film. This also helped us decide to refine our initial idea. At first we wanted to make ‘fashion profiles’ on a variety of subjects around Melbourne. However, in seeing our stylistic references we decided that our concept needed to be something more distinguished. The broad idea of profiles would allow us to explore fashion but we all felt as though we required a model more individualised to enable us to convey something further – uniqueness, empowerment and collectivism. The uniqueness of fashion could be shown by profiles; the empowerment shown through our subject’s passion. Collectivism I think must then be revealed rather than shown. This is somewhat a replication our group’s collaborative process as our contemplative thinking is revealed in these reflections. Our initial pitches and presentation show the ideas, though I believe they are more comprehensible when revealed. In a similar manner, the collectivism of our film will be revealed inexplicitly and could perhaps be intelligible only upon reflection.

 
Our process for this presentation involved the development of concepts. One way we tried to evolve our project was by creating a short prototype for a profile which we then showed in the presentation. I think that the clip was good at conveying the ideas we were wishing to portray to the panel though I do believe it served its main purpose in providing lesson which we can use to improve our final film. This clip was achieved with little planning or preproduction something which I think would have improved the quality of shots. For example this was the first time we had shot at this location and as such we were unaware that the humidity of the air in the greenhouse would cause the camera lens to fog up in around 5 seconds. We had to adapt the shots to short snippets to allow us to wipe the lens between takes and even so it resulted in a few clips with a small haze that we attempted to fix in postproduction. Because the shoot was rather impulsive, we also had no plan for editing which meant it was a slow process to refine the clips into a 30 second sequence. Better planning and trial shoots would allow us to source the possible challenges of a location and help us to understand how the camera can operate in that particular space.