I designed this recipe with one main goal first and foremost: Replication. I wanted it to be incredibly precise, easily understood and easily reproduced. Since I am trying to focus a lot of my shooting around techniques used by James Benning, and trying to let my camera and filming constraints do a lot of the editing for me (in order to remove some subjectivity from the piece) I wanted to make sure the shots I collect could be done by anyone. And that if another person went along to Royal Park Station (which by the way is where I have decided to shoot) they could come away with very similar, workable footage.
Visually, its very straightforward. Every shot is timed and there will be plenty of footage to work with (fingers crossed, the shooting is happening this week over the mid sem break). I think these shots will all ensure I get the kind of feel Im going for. None of the wide shots will include any of the station, I will get a combination of greenery and sky shots which will be a nice contrast, and I should get plenty of rapid left to right and right to left train movement to use for the quick transitions.
In terms of the audio, I want to make sure I really capture the elements around the train station because I want to embed them throughout the piece, very quietly, in order to just give the slightest hint to the audience of the location, but have it be quiet enough that it might just sound like background noise. So I’ve made sure to put in that I will capture all the man made noises that would occur there…for example the myki sounds, the loud speaker talking about train run times, the noise the green button makes when you press it for information etc.