Recipes are essential for any kind of creation. You can’t bake your first cake without sourcing ingredients, step by step instructions and an idea of an outcome. This is the same for filming. You can’t produce and collect the footage and audio you want without first planning how you are going to collect it, what process you are going to use, such as shot types and movements, as well as what you want to film. We discussed in class how important it is to be specific with the movements, object themes and time periods for content. This was something that we as a pair discussed immensely in the process of writing up a plan. The big terms we took from the class were:

• Equipment
• Orientation
• Movement -Pan, handheld vs tripod,
• Budget
• Length/duration
• Framing/Shot Types

From there we talked about the themes we wanted to explore in our chosen areas, which happen to be a park and a train station. We settled on this idea of nature and industry, and how these ideas overlap and contrast in the different locations. For example, how and what light sources work within the location, such as the flickering lights of industrial white lamps in the stations and the completely different, bright rays of the sun in the park. We kept with this idea of broad themes and terms for what to film and notice in our locations, drafting up this list:

• Light – 3 five second shots tracking up (portrait) (still)
• Dark – 3 five second shots tracking down (portrait) (still)
• Straight Lines – 3 five second shots panning from left to right (landscape) (still)
• Abstract Lines – 3 five second shots panning from right to left (landscape) (still)
• Walking – 3 five second still shots (portrait) (moving)
• Sitting – 3 five second still shots (landscape) (still)
• Nature – 3 five second still shots (landscape) (still)
• Industry – 3 five second still shots (portrait) (still)