I am truly inspired by the inventiveness of my classmates which in my opinion, was driven by the constraints presided to us. My favourite constraint by far is that we had to film a long take.

I have decided this term to undertake my own project based on the long take. I am currently in the conception process but my basic foundation is that I want a long take that encapsulates an equal, if not more intense atmosphere that can be achieved by a fast edited montage sequence.

I was inspired when my classmate Georgia asked me to film her short scene. It was a one take and all I could think of was how beautiful the fluidity of that take was. It was a long take where you could only see the above roof for an extended period of time yet it was encapsulating because you are drawn to the smoothness of the movement.

I would like to do a continuous shot zooming in on a subject. There are in fact many ways to do so. Based on research I have acquired, one can do so manually. One can also set the camera zoom automatically so that it zooms by itself and you have to worry about the framing alone. However, to manually zoom in for such an extended period of time means much more susceptibility to shaking that is quite jarring. What you can also do is film a fast zoom and slow it down in post-production. I will try out each method and get back to you….