The original idea for our film was to have our
character sat down with a blindfold on and elements of a perfect and idealistic
world playing on it. Then when the mask is removed, footage of environmental,
health and mundane issues would play behind him on a projector, causing the
character to become more and more distressed as the videos continue. He then,
completely distrot by these images, takes the blindfold and sews it onto his
face to block out the reality with the idealistic.
Our film managed to follow this plan very well as
we stuck to the general outline. However, we did run into a few problems while
editing. The first issue was with the green screen on the mask as this took
some time and effort. In the end, we had to settle for parts of the mask not
being keyed out, as it did not work due to the lighting being uneven.
Another issue with lighting was that we wanted
to have each shot lit with different colours to match an idealistic video with
a realistic video. We filmed most of these with different light filters to link
the two contrasts. However, with some of the shots we were unable to light them
due to being outside or they were stock footage. This lead to us using grading
to colour the image, which in some cases did not match the practically lit
footage. Although this did not totally ruin the footage as it still worked
well.
When in the planning stage we had many ideas
that we wanted to put into this piece. However, when we talked about this with
our tutor we soon realised that the ideas we wanted to put into this piece were
disjointed and would not fit together. We then had to discuss how to connect everything
and make it more coherent. Eventually, as a team we came to the creative
decision to have the idealistic shots work as a blindfold from the realistic
shots.
During the shooting of this film we decided to
use different lighting filters for different shots. We managed to achieve this
with some Dedo lights and their filter kits. This was the first time I had used
different coloured lighting gels to film with. A similar eaxpmle of this is from The Shining Kubrick, S. (Director). (1980). When Jack is in the bathroom with Grady, we can see around them the whole scene is dominated by the colour red. We wanted to recreate this effect. However, we decided to use light to colour the whole shot rather than just the background set. While lighting the shots we did
run into some issues. The main problems arose when colouring a shot red as the
red light made it very difficult to focus the shot properly. There was nothing
we could do about this so I had to improve it during post-production.
During the editing phase of this project I was
tasked with using colour key to take out the green screen mask and replace it
with the idealistic videos. This was another first for me and to do this I had
to first use Linear Colour Key to remove the green and then use Advanced Spill
Suppressor and Matte Choker to make the green screen look better and make the
green that was not keyed out look a grey colour making the mask look like a
silk material.
My job during this project was editor, as a
part of my role I had to edit the clips together, grade the whole film and edit
all of the green screen shots.
When it came to editing the clips together I
did not find this too difficult, as I have done this many times before. Myself
and Meg, our Producer, where present for the edit to make sure the correct
clips where used and to make sure nothing was left out. During this process I realised
there where a few cuts that felt jarring when watching them and so I had to
apply some transitions to make the clips merge into one and other a little bit
better.
Another pat of my role was to green screen the
footage. While doing this I ran into many problems and had to spend a lot of
time in this part. Once the green screen was keyed out and the other unevenly
lit parts where turned to a silk grey colour. The next huge issue was to have
the video track to the mask to have it follow it. This took some time to figure
out. However, I managed to do it by using a null object, which tracked to the
green screen shot and then linked the idealistic footage to this null object.
In editing I also had to use the sharpen tool
to sharpen the red images as they where slightly soft in focus. This helped the
images look a lot better, however, it would have been better if we had realised
while on set that the focus was soft.
I believe that we all worked well as a group.
However, I believe that not everyone pulled their weight on these projects and
myself, Meg and India where left to pick up the slack. The main issue was with
our sound editor Lewis, as he would not show up to editing sessions when he was
needed to and this prolonged the editing stage of our film.
I believe during this shoot I have learnt a great
many things that could be applied to the working world in film. Firstly while
filming we tried our best to be as professional as possible and use technical
jargon that would be used on a film set. This would give use knowledge and
experience working on set.
I also learnt to work well as a team and
overcome issues when working in a team. This was due to Lewis and Emma not
putting in as much work as Myself, India and Meg and thus we had to pick up
there slack to make this film possible. I also managed to overcome issues while
editing, as I had to learn green screen properly, which was a big learning
curve for me.
Another skill I learnt was organisation and
time keeping. This came when we were planning all the documentation and setting
up meetings to talk about the film and how we would film it. Time management
came in when we arranged times and days to film which we each had to stick to
very strictly to make sure that all the footage we needed to film would be
filmed during these timed shoots.
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