Today we were told to ‘do stuff’ in relation to our projects.

We created an exercise where we had to have a mobile camera and convey a story without dialogue. The script we used was actually the one I wrote for my project. Overall my scene is quite ‘static’, the characters don’t move much and the blocking is simple. For some reason I thought that using camera movement with my setup would be achievable since everything else is bland but I was wrong. I think my simple blocking actually hindered the camera from moving in a purposeful way because there was almost no reason for the camera to move at times.

After monitoring how our shots looked, we came to accept the inevitably of the camera’s shakiness and decided to experiment. My little experiment consisted of something like a ‘one-man show’, where one actor played both parts.

On the weekend, we also had to film footage for our own projects. Though I had high hopes for my project to turn out well, I am already dissatisfied with what I’ve got. While editing, even I did not know how to arrange the footage, so I’m not sure how well others will handle it. In regards to the framing and composition of my shots, they were really awkward. The filming space was very cramped and the two actors were also really tall so I had a hard time expressing the spatial relations within the scene; the shots ended up looking really weird to me and were not the way I would have liked them to turn out. On the bright side this dissatisfaction has fuelled motivation in me to revise my project and plan even more thoroughly for the next time I plan to shoot. I am determined to create what I sought out to create in my proposal!