In order to maintain consistency across all shots for this project, and to ensure we collected enough footage, we created a “recipe” of what to shoot/record. In the first draft, Hannah noticed that it was incredibly visuals focussed, with no mention of what to do when recording audio clips. I thought this showed a real bias in my filmmaking preferences that I hadn’t thought about, but is now obvious to me considering how I always think about film. I tend to notice striking visuals, interesting camera angles etc. This is probably because cinematography and direction are what Im most interested in career-wise, however I still definitely need to work on incorporating audio into my planning of projects in the future.
The first part of the recipe is straightforward… Namely, what I need to have physically with me on location. We decided to use the same camera for our videos which will hopefully keep it consistent.
The method is where it became very visually driven. Originally, steps 10-12 were not on the list, which would have made for purely visual recordings. Hopefully we have added enough audio in that will enable us to get some great sound recordings as
well, as initially it would have limited us to basically just using the sound we captured while shooting video.
In terms of actually editing whatever we get after our shoot, I am thinking that we will still stick with our contrasting elements idea, though we think its probably best to just wait and see what kind of footage we get, and what kind of ideas jump out at us in the editing room.