Intentions & Division of roles: 

For the media exhibition on Friday the 29th, Laura and I have been in contact over the division of roles for the day. Given her love and talent for editing videos, Laura will construct the deliverable for the presentation which will feature a short summary and trailer of the film and narrative. I on the other hand will be constructing the A3 poster which will be presented and distributed around the classroom that will be navigated by people in the exhibition. Together we will construct the written component for the Writing for Film blog post.

The exhibition:

I didn’t think for a second that what Laura would produce for the presentation would be anything less than wonderful. With that being said, I didn’t even need to look at what she produced and simply experienced it like and an audience member on the day. I really loved the colour grading that she integrated, similar to the hypothetical film poster with a blueish hue and an overall cold and unsettling feeling. Placing a one minute timeframe on the video forced her to condense the content down, and as I was saying to her after the exhibition, it turned out to look even creepier and more suspenseful than the two scenes which we polished off for submission. I was fully aware of how difficult it is to make more cuts to the video, in order to meet time constraints. What she produced was an informative but also suspenseful 1 minute video.

For my contribution, I constructed the a3 poster in Photoshop, where I tried to think of little things that would make the poster visually interesting. I noticed when wandering around the exhibition that I was drawn to mine because it had a definite colour scheme which fit the nature-y theme I was going for. It’s hard to explain the process I went through creating this poster, because I made it in maybe 10 minutes. I googled things like “clapper board”, “eucalyptus leaves” and “lined paper” so that the background wasn’t so plain and white. I adjusted the opacity of the leaves and paper so that it didn’t detract from the text. Within the clapperboards I tried to condense down some key ideas that we had for our assignment, and also specified some key points in the film and things to listen out for. Many of the stills on the poster are direct screenshots from the narrative, which I think visually represent the key shots we wanted to achieve as well as one behind the scenes shot that shows what it looked like for us behind the camera.

The written component was created through adjustments of the Week 12 Presentation script. We took parts that stood out, and parts of the overall experience that stood out as most important to us. This was created on a shared google document between Laura and I, and we just communicated over Facebook Messenger so we could tell each other to check out what had been written,changed etc.

Overall I was stoked with the feedback that we received for our whole class. It was a really nice evening and I think everyone enjoyed the free drinks and a chance to chat to everyone who made the year what it was for us.

Our blog post is here: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2015writingfilm/2015/10/24/black-flat/

Laura’s 1 min video can be found on her blog here: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/laura-doguet/

My poster can be found right here: