I have begun to develop my pre production documentation for the filming of my scenes. Today we presented our idea proposals. I was given very effective feedback. Rachel Wilson noted that i was focusing too much on my intended ’emotional response’ from the audience. As an experiment/investigation, the results of this is too ambiguous. She proposed the idea that I change my focus to genre conventions instead. I believe that changing this would give me clarity when creating the two scenes. I think I have been walking the line of this concept but have considered it entirely. Being individual scenes it is difficult and impractical to assume that the audience will respond emotionally to the scene. I should have clarified in my presentation that I wasn’t referring to the emotion of ‘sadness’. I was referring to any emotional response. For example the first scene may elicit a response of empathy and the second fear. I believe that my intentions would be far more clear if I directed the scenes into traditional genre conventions.

The first scene will reflect conventions of the romantic genre and the second will reflect conventions of the thriller genre. I will use the quick fast shots and the cooler hues (colour temperature) for the thriller genre and tracking, wider shots, with warmer hues for the romantic genre.

I will begin my research into scenes that reflect these genres. My investigation will be directed towards comparing the colour tones, shot types, editing style and lighting set ups.

New Location!

Next week when I am back in Melbourne, I am going to take photos of a new location that I believe will compensate for both of the scenes direction. My brother lives in an apartment in Alphington that is located along the Yarra River. There are beautiful walking tracks near there. Depending on the time of day, they can be quiet. I will also begin sourcing a script/script ideas. There will be no dialogue. The sound will be ambience and non diegetic sound.