Before I started to write this reflection of our presentation, I heard of that some of our classmates they made a mistake that they thought this is the American Novel call the outsiders, the truth is, this book called The Stranger by Albert Camus. Albert Camus was a famous French philosopher and author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
It’s not required to present what the book talks about or the deep meaning and theory of the story in our video since we only film the final small part of this story. The video we will edit will be long about 2-3mins. However, it’s very important for every member to read carefully and make notes because we maker needs to get really close to the main character Meursault, even Camus, to provide details of personality of Meursault.
Talks about Meursault, talks about the cast, Paul suggests us that we could use not only one character but some, and the Meursault doesn’t have to be a man. To be honest, we discussed it before the presentation also in the meeting after we heard from Paul. However, we used to imagine how a woman to act, whether it would be better than to let a man act. The result is we chose a man to act Meursault since the strong impression in our mind from this book. But regarding do we need the other characters, we are still thinking about it.
For location, in the beginning, we wanted to film only in a black room with only two lights. One is the key light, and the other one is side light to fill Meursault. Paul gave a advice that we can try different location with the same Meursault, even same actions. It’s really a good advice, we believe it, but this is difficult to achieve. We only have few weeks to go, moreover, in May we do not only have this assignment. Schedule everyone’s available time to film and meet up will be a really an annoying thing. Finally, we decided to add a sea beachside as our second location because Meursault went to enjoy the sea in the book for many times.
Except for the two questions that Paul put forward in the class, there is the last question which is about the design of lights. When we are in the black filming room, the only natural light that we will use is the direct sunshine to make high contrast (we are still imagining how the screen looks like). Currently, we are worrying about how we can get the power to charge the lights when we film on the beach in the early morning and evening.