This week we began to “work individually”.

We developed a concept, process, some content, that we wanted to work on and filmed it in groups. I decided to film a moment that regularly occurs in films as well as in real life – a person just passing time. As I mentioned in the earlier post, the real intention of this scene was to capture it in a stylised, kind of artsy way. In my head, I’d imagine a montage of a person passing time in different environments, however I only ended up filming in two different locations so I’m not too sure how it will turn out and whether it will work or not. I think this time I was a bit too ambitious with I wanted out of a 30 minute class exercise, and with such a stylised montage in mind it may have been better to do at least a bit of concrete planning.

Now that I’ve shot it, I can think of so many more ways to make it interesting. I could have tilted the camera, pulled focus, get some stills and locked shots… if only I had thought/remembered these options during the shoot… Anyways, looking forward to editing the footage on Monday.

Some things:

– maybe it’ll be better to find some music which suits the mood first

– changing speed of action, elliptical editing, transitions, repetition, are all options not just cut and paste