This is it, my film is done and my folder just need to be graced with this blog and my evaluation and it will be complete.
I can't think of anything else to say apart from, that this project was really hard but was alright in the end, mostly.
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Monday, 16 August 2010
Old Habits and New Ideas
Well well well, I got in a bit of trouble today; I was a bit too cheeky and avoided paying for an edit suite (as usual) but this time "the guy" wasn't too happy about it and sort of told me off but still let me go without paying, but tomorrow I’ll have to pay £8.25 for a Mac in the computer room there as a suite would cost me £20! And they don’t accept a tenner for half a day for some crazy reason. Erg, "the guy" was kind of icy about it as well, but I guess it was literally all my fault, but either way he could have been a little bit nicer about it, its not like I messed the whole place up and was inconsiderate and unfriendly or arrogant the whole time I was there...
If I ever run a place like the Phoenix media centre, which I hope I do at some point because it's literally THE coolest place in Exeter for film students, I would have a 'firmware' style price list, like I'd have set prices for commercial users and random individuals/professionals/freelancers but with students and trusted users (people who've been using the facilities for a long time and know procedures) I'd have a negotiable price list, so if a person couldn't afford a whole day, they could just pay half the price of a full day and work for a half day, its simple, logical division. Obviously people will try to exploit these floating prices and things could get out of hand, but if management (aka me) is mellow about it and friendly, people (unless they're really full of malice) will be nice back and generally follow the rules. And when I say trusted users, I mean, people who have been around the centre, going in and out, contributing for a few YEARS, or like me, have grown up around these places and got to know a lot of the people and how things are done. I just think the decision that someone can or cannot uses facilities for creativity shouldn't be based on how much money that person can spend, but more on their value as a person and trust... I think the relationships between people in a place like that could be worth so much more as well, it would feel like a home or something instead of a workplace for the employees and a club or something for the users.
There wouldn't be a set strategy either for new comers to read up on and know that that this is what the needed to do to get stuff cheaper, that would really encourage the greedy exploiting people, people would prove their worthiness for a cheaper price by having the initiative to negotiate...
blah, I'll find out who sets the prices at the phoenix and make a few suggestions, I mean even if they had half day prices a lot more people would come along, and if they were a bit nicer about it all.
If I ever run a place like the Phoenix media centre, which I hope I do at some point because it's literally THE coolest place in Exeter for film students, I would have a 'firmware' style price list, like I'd have set prices for commercial users and random individuals/professionals/freelancers but with students and trusted users (people who've been using the facilities for a long time and know procedures) I'd have a negotiable price list, so if a person couldn't afford a whole day, they could just pay half the price of a full day and work for a half day, its simple, logical division. Obviously people will try to exploit these floating prices and things could get out of hand, but if management (aka me) is mellow about it and friendly, people (unless they're really full of malice) will be nice back and generally follow the rules. And when I say trusted users, I mean, people who have been around the centre, going in and out, contributing for a few YEARS, or like me, have grown up around these places and got to know a lot of the people and how things are done. I just think the decision that someone can or cannot uses facilities for creativity shouldn't be based on how much money that person can spend, but more on their value as a person and trust... I think the relationships between people in a place like that could be worth so much more as well, it would feel like a home or something instead of a workplace for the employees and a club or something for the users.
There wouldn't be a set strategy either for new comers to read up on and know that that this is what the needed to do to get stuff cheaper, that would really encourage the greedy exploiting people, people would prove their worthiness for a cheaper price by having the initiative to negotiate...
blah, I'll find out who sets the prices at the phoenix and make a few suggestions, I mean even if they had half day prices a lot more people would come along, and if they were a bit nicer about it all.
So I might
So I might use that last post as my evaluation after all. Clean it up a bit, make it less mocking and more professional sounding when criticizing myself and the course...
I've been feeling a bit ... Lost or I duno, maybe constricted. I think I'll go for a walk tomorrow.
I've been listening to the soundtrack of Bodysong, the british documentry on life, directed by Simon Pummell. but the album was scored by Jonny Greenwood and its amazing.
The stuff I've written lately about my final edit has been really great, I've really enjoyed thinking about my documentry and how its not all bad, and how this last edit(s) is really going to make it better.
I've been feeling a bit ... Lost or I duno, maybe constricted. I think I'll go for a walk tomorrow.
I've been listening to the soundtrack of Bodysong, the british documentry on life, directed by Simon Pummell. but the album was scored by Jonny Greenwood and its amazing.
The stuff I've written lately about my final edit has been really great, I've really enjoyed thinking about my documentry and how its not all bad, and how this last edit(s) is really going to make it better.
Saturday, 14 August 2010
This almost was in the EVALUATION (a.k.a A look at the brief)
It’s an often occurrence that I only inspect the details of the project brief when I’m in the final stages (of course I do read it at the start as well, but I have nothing to compare it to at those early stages) of the project and previously it has only served as a reassurance that I have in fact done everything I needed to do and in a very nice way too. This time however, when I read the project brief, I found my folder to be a most unimaginative response to the briefs instructions. It implies in the ‘SHORT MODULE DESCRIPTOR’ that I am to “investigate the depiction of real events in moving image”; examine “how the form has developed in recent years and has embraced other forms such as drama, animation and music promo”, additionally the brief encourages me to “reference identified exhibition routes”. This is starting to sound like I’m blaming the brief in some way for my own failures, I’m not, I’m just trying to procrastinate. (It was at this stage in writing this paragraph that I realised it probably wasn't the best evaluative material, but none-the-less still worth saying, therefore I transferred it to this Blog). If your looking at my folder: The first section is my production brief, suggesting that I hold the goals of this project in priority and return to the front of the folder often to dwell on the projects direction and progress; this is an inaccurate description of current practices concerning my production work ethic. Immediately following the production brief is my PRODUCTION PLAN, written in all capitals in a imposing, sturdy font and receiving a whole title page to rule and proclaim its importance over, only then overleaf is the reader treated to a very well thought through and clear production table, broken down into weeks and blocks of work groups and time specific production dates. This layout may once again suggest that the author holds pre-planning and production organisation in high regard and proceeds to obey the efficient and effective schedule religiously thus completing a full and whole folder and supporting film in the time given. It's true I do hold planning in high regard, but only place it near the front of the folder because its one of the first things I do. I don't think I have ever, EVER followed a production plan to the letter, but then again who has?
Another title page follows the production plan; the introduction, which I've yet to write. Initial research follows that, I said initial, it really is my only primary research; hand written and generally not touched again since plugging them into my folder. Erg, I've just realised half of the stuff isn't even research; it's just my notes on what I should make a documentary on. There I go straight away, falling into the trap of immediately associating 'Non-Narrative' with documentary, something that I thought I expressively tried to avoid throughout the whole project but ended up doing anyway... O hang on, there IS some good mentions of various Non Narrative stuff in these Hand written notes, perhaps I should write up some proper stuff from these or something over the next few hours, couldn't hurt.
BANG next in the folder is the TREATMENT, there we go no lolling around in this folder, no I get straight to the problem in hand and solve it in one fell swoop and punch the production in the face with my 'Twits' idea and run with it. Oh what's this? next up is PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, looks like a bloodied nose of a production caught me up and sat on me, thwarting my initial elation and vigour to create a ground breaking and edgy 'On-line TV' based short comedy series based on peoples real life experiences as professed on internet social network and worldwide craze, Twitter, hence the play on words title 'Twits'. Ho Ho Ho. So yeah, it fell through, basically I'm not a huge production company and in the end unless I acted out everything myself (could've been done quite effectively to think about it now) I just couldn't feasibly produce the film(s) I wanted to. So as usual, I fell back on the standard way of doing things and decided to make a fairly normal talking heads Doc on what the people of Exeter thought of twitter OR what my friends who didn't mind being filmed and also had twitter thought of twitter... (hmm this is actually turning out quite nicely, I might stick some of this in my evaluation) So that's why I literally have a treatment right from the get go with pretty much no explanation and then some "project development" and a less interesting treatment, which is also followed by two pages claiming to be 'Critical incidents', I can't see any blood or anything on the pages and they're in good nick apart from some printer errors, so I'd just treat them as standard 'Incidents' or even 'Stories'. Yeah, that sounds a lot better.
Wow! Look at this next part! A whole section on planning! WOW! It's true I'm genuinely proud of this section of the project, because even though I didn't end up filming the majority of them and none are in the final film, I am very pleased with 'Episode structure' pages as well as the 'Tweet Boards' section; they just did exactly what they need to do, no fuss. The subsequent planning pages are still good but not as conclusive and clear as I would have liked, although reading my 'Sound design' notes again now, I think I did a good job there. I feel like there is a lot missing, but I can't put my finger on it, maybe I feel this way because a lot of this folder is geared to creating the 'Twits' films and because now at the end that didn't get made, I feel like all the supporting documentation for it doesn't count and the film I have now is just balancing dangerously on a few poorly chosen interview spaces and unthought-of bias, but that's not true, if anything it supports me even more!
The next section is a bit weak as I have mention before; Research is never really my strong point as I always find it spoils the fun a bit when researching as you always end up finding something far better than what you’re trying to support... Anyway this research section is just some wikipedia copy and paste jobs, nothing special. Although the production notes from Wisconsin Death Trip (obtained from they’re own website) was quite interesting. None of the films I chose to research helped me in any real way, which was a shame. After research we see the tweet boards, which are like storyboards but more general and more conceptual. I enjoyed making those, even if they didn't get used. The next section; Shooting, was around the time in the project where I realised I just couldn't continue with my 'Twits' idea which threw me off course for a bout a week or two. I wrote a little explanation or apology for the lack of documents in the folder a few weeks after that, since it was looking so bleak and "head down in the sand looking retched", it really was the lowest point of the project. Then comes the editing section, the most detailed and interesting of all the sections, apart from maybe the BLOG, but that hasn't got its own section yet. It was in the edit suite that the film I will hand in and that this folder will support, was born. I've still got to write a good chunk of the 'progress' and 'development' style documents in this section so I'm gona cut this non evaluation short but also cuz I'm tired of over describing events and processes of this project in the unnecessarily witty, incredibly accurate and humorously eloquent fashion I do so well and love to exploit.
Another title page follows the production plan; the introduction, which I've yet to write. Initial research follows that, I said initial, it really is my only primary research; hand written and generally not touched again since plugging them into my folder. Erg, I've just realised half of the stuff isn't even research; it's just my notes on what I should make a documentary on. There I go straight away, falling into the trap of immediately associating 'Non-Narrative' with documentary, something that I thought I expressively tried to avoid throughout the whole project but ended up doing anyway... O hang on, there IS some good mentions of various Non Narrative stuff in these Hand written notes, perhaps I should write up some proper stuff from these or something over the next few hours, couldn't hurt.
BANG next in the folder is the TREATMENT, there we go no lolling around in this folder, no I get straight to the problem in hand and solve it in one fell swoop and punch the production in the face with my 'Twits' idea and run with it. Oh what's this? next up is PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, looks like a bloodied nose of a production caught me up and sat on me, thwarting my initial elation and vigour to create a ground breaking and edgy 'On-line TV' based short comedy series based on peoples real life experiences as professed on internet social network and worldwide craze, Twitter, hence the play on words title 'Twits'. Ho Ho Ho. So yeah, it fell through, basically I'm not a huge production company and in the end unless I acted out everything myself (could've been done quite effectively to think about it now) I just couldn't feasibly produce the film(s) I wanted to. So as usual, I fell back on the standard way of doing things and decided to make a fairly normal talking heads Doc on what the people of Exeter thought of twitter OR what my friends who didn't mind being filmed and also had twitter thought of twitter... (hmm this is actually turning out quite nicely, I might stick some of this in my evaluation) So that's why I literally have a treatment right from the get go with pretty much no explanation and then some "project development" and a less interesting treatment, which is also followed by two pages claiming to be 'Critical incidents', I can't see any blood or anything on the pages and they're in good nick apart from some printer errors, so I'd just treat them as standard 'Incidents' or even 'Stories'. Yeah, that sounds a lot better.
Wow! Look at this next part! A whole section on planning! WOW! It's true I'm genuinely proud of this section of the project, because even though I didn't end up filming the majority of them and none are in the final film, I am very pleased with 'Episode structure' pages as well as the 'Tweet Boards' section; they just did exactly what they need to do, no fuss. The subsequent planning pages are still good but not as conclusive and clear as I would have liked, although reading my 'Sound design' notes again now, I think I did a good job there. I feel like there is a lot missing, but I can't put my finger on it, maybe I feel this way because a lot of this folder is geared to creating the 'Twits' films and because now at the end that didn't get made, I feel like all the supporting documentation for it doesn't count and the film I have now is just balancing dangerously on a few poorly chosen interview spaces and unthought-of bias, but that's not true, if anything it supports me even more!
The next section is a bit weak as I have mention before; Research is never really my strong point as I always find it spoils the fun a bit when researching as you always end up finding something far better than what you’re trying to support... Anyway this research section is just some wikipedia copy and paste jobs, nothing special. Although the production notes from Wisconsin Death Trip (obtained from they’re own website) was quite interesting. None of the films I chose to research helped me in any real way, which was a shame. After research we see the tweet boards, which are like storyboards but more general and more conceptual. I enjoyed making those, even if they didn't get used. The next section; Shooting, was around the time in the project where I realised I just couldn't continue with my 'Twits' idea which threw me off course for a bout a week or two. I wrote a little explanation or apology for the lack of documents in the folder a few weeks after that, since it was looking so bleak and "head down in the sand looking retched", it really was the lowest point of the project. Then comes the editing section, the most detailed and interesting of all the sections, apart from maybe the BLOG, but that hasn't got its own section yet. It was in the edit suite that the film I will hand in and that this folder will support, was born. I've still got to write a good chunk of the 'progress' and 'development' style documents in this section so I'm gona cut this non evaluation short but also cuz I'm tired of over describing events and processes of this project in the unnecessarily witty, incredibly accurate and humorously eloquent fashion I do so well and love to exploit.
Well Well Well
So in my Independent Study Evaluation I was pretty harsh. With this projects I may end up spitting on it!
Hahaha. Naa its not that bad, but this is pretty serious, I've tried not to do too much work to be fair to the circumstances of this extension, that is, not completely overhauling the project and massively exploiting the extra time and just completing an adequate amount of work, enough to pass.
Generally I haven't kept this Blog as up to date with my progress with Non-Narrative as I would have liked, but I guess this is just the way it has turned out and I don't think I can specifically blame myself in any way, just generally really. There are all kinds of explanations I can think of that might have contributed to me not doing all that well this term for example; loosing my home editing suite, being nervous about doing a better job this term (backfired), being nervous about moving to Plymouth next year, working too hard on other projects, worrying about other projects, worrying about not doing other projects. All this and more I guess just really got to me this term and hit this project particularly worse than the others, apart from maybe my essay, of which I'm terrified of.
Back to Non-Narrative, there are a few detailed 'progress' and 'development' type posts/documents I need to get out of my head, just so your a bit more clued up on the way this film has turned out. I want to see if I can fully explain the intricacy's of the films bias and eventual message/base concept, I want to discuss whether the film is balanced in its current state(half edited) and whether I need to edit it differently or add some more insightful commentary to make it feel more like a genuine comment on twitter and not just my very opinionated opinion.
'Commenting' and such is very popular these days in a variety of modern endeavours.
From the most outspoken review to the subtlest of remarks from Youtube to rotten tomatoes. I just want to make sure that my comment on twitter isn't just another standard rant and genuinely something worth listening/watching.
Hahaha. Naa its not that bad, but this is pretty serious, I've tried not to do too much work to be fair to the circumstances of this extension, that is, not completely overhauling the project and massively exploiting the extra time and just completing an adequate amount of work, enough to pass.
Generally I haven't kept this Blog as up to date with my progress with Non-Narrative as I would have liked, but I guess this is just the way it has turned out and I don't think I can specifically blame myself in any way, just generally really. There are all kinds of explanations I can think of that might have contributed to me not doing all that well this term for example; loosing my home editing suite, being nervous about doing a better job this term (backfired), being nervous about moving to Plymouth next year, working too hard on other projects, worrying about other projects, worrying about not doing other projects. All this and more I guess just really got to me this term and hit this project particularly worse than the others, apart from maybe my essay, of which I'm terrified of.
Back to Non-Narrative, there are a few detailed 'progress' and 'development' type posts/documents I need to get out of my head, just so your a bit more clued up on the way this film has turned out. I want to see if I can fully explain the intricacy's of the films bias and eventual message/base concept, I want to discuss whether the film is balanced in its current state(half edited) and whether I need to edit it differently or add some more insightful commentary to make it feel more like a genuine comment on twitter and not just my very opinionated opinion.
'Commenting' and such is very popular these days in a variety of modern endeavours.
From the most outspoken review to the subtlest of remarks from Youtube to rotten tomatoes. I just want to make sure that my comment on twitter isn't just another standard rant and genuinely something worth listening/watching.
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
2 months later
In Summary:
I filmed the beginning and end bits for my documentary last week, consisting of me talking about twitter... It's turned out quite a lot more bias than I intended but that's OK.
I found I've lost some of the interviews I originally edited into '140 character' lengths when I returned to editing a few days ago. however I still have the original mini dv and I think with a bit of clever re-capturing I can accurately create some new files to replace the missing ones... I 'll explain more on that later.
I've finished my independent Study and now realise the full extent of how this project (non-narrative) may not be of the same standard folder-wise but none the less will carry on and complete the project, although I'm not sure I'll get round to improving what I have already done.
Ideally all I need to do is a few edit accounts/finish the film/make a dvd and do an evaluation.
Will do some more editing tonight.
I filmed the beginning and end bits for my documentary last week, consisting of me talking about twitter... It's turned out quite a lot more bias than I intended but that's OK.
I found I've lost some of the interviews I originally edited into '140 character' lengths when I returned to editing a few days ago. however I still have the original mini dv and I think with a bit of clever re-capturing I can accurately create some new files to replace the missing ones... I 'll explain more on that later.
I've finished my independent Study and now realise the full extent of how this project (non-narrative) may not be of the same standard folder-wise but none the less will carry on and complete the project, although I'm not sure I'll get round to improving what I have already done.
Ideally all I need to do is a few edit accounts/finish the film/make a dvd and do an evaluation.
Will do some more editing tonight.
Friday, 4 June 2010
Illness
So im ill. im currently blogging from my ipod in bed and i cant move for too long, ive got somekind of annoying thing which makes me dizzy if i move and headaches. Yes i left a lot of my editing and written work till the last minute and now im ill during the last minute, unable to work properly. Im going to get an extenuating circumstances form thing so when i inevitably miss the deadline i wont be in too much trouble. When i do recover, probably in the next few days i will only do whats completely necessary that is; my evaluations, the documentary edit, the dvds, my marketing report for PP and my essay which i actually had a good start on until i first got the headaches and couldn't move( started being ill on tues went to hospital on weds, rested all day thurs at home, its now fri and im still woozey but getting better cuz im able to at least write this blog) . Depending on how much extra time im given, thats pretty much all ill do. note to self: paste this into other blogs since this concerns them too.
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Week 13 - not looking great
O boy, this projects folder has really fallen through... In the next few paragraphs I'm going to try and explain why:
I think this project was just doomed from the start like my independent study, I tried to make something far too complicated and expected too much of myself and of the people around me. I thought I could make a whole load of really short sketches based on what people say on twitter, I thought I could get all my friends and family to act in it to make it interesting and dynamic; a different person for each sketch, I wanted to have five minutes of funny, intelligent response with aarguments on both sides literalising the meaning of twitter. It was my first good idea, I wanted to role with it, I knew exactly what I wanted to film, where I was going to do it, and how they were all going to fit into each other in the final film (although I didn't write much about it this time) However when it came down to it, I just couldn't find the man power to help me, no one was up for it and if they were it was a mammoth task to try and organise everyone to be in the right place at the right time to save eveyone being in one place waiting for me to ask for them, I guess everyone saw that before me and decided it wouldn't be worth saying they could help and then only get told be me that I didn't need them anymore... Anyway enough of feeling sorry for myself and my complete lack of loyal friends.
I knew I still wanted to stick with this twitter idea so I went and got a few random opinions from various people I know and stuck them together in the edit, and hey presto! I've got the basis of a documentary, its nothing great, quite simple and you can find more insightfulness in a jar of fish eyes. But it was a start, now I'm going to get two very opposing opinions (hopefully) in the next couple of days and edit them in with the others, stick some interesting tunes (I've got some of my own non copyright stuff I can use) maybe stick a short introductary voice over and bish bosh bash I got myself a hopefully five minute long documentary that can pass off as something I've worked really hard on, hahaha no really, but thats what I'm aiming for now; a very standard talking heads documentary about twitter. I might include this BBC radio 4 debate as well because its amazing:
Its Charlie Brooker and Lee Mack dicussing the complexities or simplicities of Twitter. It's hilarious.
Twitter is the present tense
Twitter is a zombie curse film
CB: Almighty sheet of bubble wrap - vague satisfaction in popping each individual bubble. but its pointless
LM: its a load of people popping the bubble wrap and going 'Look what I've done!'
I think I will use something like that, I want to make it quite funny...
I just hope I can get everything done in time and present some kind of decernable back up for it...
I think this project was just doomed from the start like my independent study, I tried to make something far too complicated and expected too much of myself and of the people around me. I thought I could make a whole load of really short sketches based on what people say on twitter, I thought I could get all my friends and family to act in it to make it interesting and dynamic; a different person for each sketch, I wanted to have five minutes of funny, intelligent response with aarguments on both sides literalising the meaning of twitter. It was my first good idea, I wanted to role with it, I knew exactly what I wanted to film, where I was going to do it, and how they were all going to fit into each other in the final film (although I didn't write much about it this time) However when it came down to it, I just couldn't find the man power to help me, no one was up for it and if they were it was a mammoth task to try and organise everyone to be in the right place at the right time to save eveyone being in one place waiting for me to ask for them, I guess everyone saw that before me and decided it wouldn't be worth saying they could help and then only get told be me that I didn't need them anymore... Anyway enough of feeling sorry for myself and my complete lack of loyal friends.
I knew I still wanted to stick with this twitter idea so I went and got a few random opinions from various people I know and stuck them together in the edit, and hey presto! I've got the basis of a documentary, its nothing great, quite simple and you can find more insightfulness in a jar of fish eyes. But it was a start, now I'm going to get two very opposing opinions (hopefully) in the next couple of days and edit them in with the others, stick some interesting tunes (I've got some of my own non copyright stuff I can use) maybe stick a short introductary voice over and bish bosh bash I got myself a hopefully five minute long documentary that can pass off as something I've worked really hard on, hahaha no really, but thats what I'm aiming for now; a very standard talking heads documentary about twitter. I might include this BBC radio 4 debate as well because its amazing:
Its Charlie Brooker and Lee Mack dicussing the complexities or simplicities of Twitter. It's hilarious.
Twitter is the present tense
Twitter is a zombie curse film
CB: Almighty sheet of bubble wrap - vague satisfaction in popping each individual bubble. but its pointless
LM: its a load of people popping the bubble wrap and going 'Look what I've done!'
I think I will use something like that, I want to make it quite funny...
I just hope I can get everything done in time and present some kind of decernable back up for it...
Sunday, 11 April 2010
WEEK 7
Or the end of Week 6. Work has been relatively slow, although I've been doing ALOT of thinking and theorising over varies subjects/issues/films/theories and the future which has taken up time I should've used to do the more practical side of my projects, that is writing down stuff.
I watched a very interesting speech by Peter Dekom on the relationship between the filmmaker/distributor and the audience and got some very relevant and facinating notes both from my own ideas from what he said and some notes I quoted from Ted Hopes Blog 'truely free film'. I shall write up the notes and post them on this blog, however I wrote them primarily for my Professional Practice Module.
Documentary wise, I've been talking to people about my idea and most people seem to like it, Its been rather enlightening talking about it because I, as well as the people im talking too, come out with comments which I think to myself 'o i should write that down'.
I was thinking about my Super 8 camera and realised that perhaps getting one and using as part of my research was quite counter-productive in terms of my future, yes its fun and important to value the roots of cinema and indie film making but the super 8 was then, I should be focusing what what is now, or according to Peter Dekon I should be thinking about Whats Next.
Speaking of whats next, I think I will create a production company as an umbrella sort of thing to eventually produce all my work from and call it 'Whats Next? Productions' I've also had a few ideas that I would one day open an indie cinema either here in the southwest or somewhere more cultured (or less for that matter). Anyway I'd either call it 'Whats Next? Cinema' ot 'The Whats Next? Media Centre'.
ive done some designs roughly on paint: Copywrite belong to me ... eventually anyway
I've been thinking about/loosely researching the state of british cinema and the lack of audience parcipitation/interaction/knowledge of the british film industry, this is probably one of the issues I will spend my life trying to resolve.
Back to my Documentary... Ive done some episode planning and printed some storyboards and will proably do some thourough shot planning over the next week.
Actually I will do that, I'll even write it down that I will do that and have it done by the end of this week, then at the end of the week when I haven't done it I'll know that I meant to do it this week and subsequently feel more guitly and proceed to do it next week. hahaha, Or I'll just do it this week. I also need to deliberate the core features/look and how I want to present this documentary so I dont just film a load of shit and put some captions inbetween...
I'll be editing together the 97 lovers music video early next week which should be fun.
Blog posts to come:
How to train your Dragon: a review
Kick Ass: a review
Whats next?
piracy/DEbill
more future thoughts
I watched a very interesting speech by Peter Dekom on the relationship between the filmmaker/distributor and the audience and got some very relevant and facinating notes both from my own ideas from what he said and some notes I quoted from Ted Hopes Blog 'truely free film'. I shall write up the notes and post them on this blog, however I wrote them primarily for my Professional Practice Module.
Documentary wise, I've been talking to people about my idea and most people seem to like it, Its been rather enlightening talking about it because I, as well as the people im talking too, come out with comments which I think to myself 'o i should write that down'.
I was thinking about my Super 8 camera and realised that perhaps getting one and using as part of my research was quite counter-productive in terms of my future, yes its fun and important to value the roots of cinema and indie film making but the super 8 was then, I should be focusing what what is now, or according to Peter Dekon I should be thinking about Whats Next.
Speaking of whats next, I think I will create a production company as an umbrella sort of thing to eventually produce all my work from and call it 'Whats Next? Productions' I've also had a few ideas that I would one day open an indie cinema either here in the southwest or somewhere more cultured (or less for that matter). Anyway I'd either call it 'Whats Next? Cinema' ot 'The Whats Next? Media Centre'.
ive done some designs roughly on paint: Copywrite belong to me ... eventually anyway
I've been thinking about/loosely researching the state of british cinema and the lack of audience parcipitation/interaction/knowledge of the british film industry, this is probably one of the issues I will spend my life trying to resolve.
Back to my Documentary... Ive done some episode planning and printed some storyboards and will proably do some thourough shot planning over the next week.
Actually I will do that, I'll even write it down that I will do that and have it done by the end of this week, then at the end of the week when I haven't done it I'll know that I meant to do it this week and subsequently feel more guitly and proceed to do it next week. hahaha, Or I'll just do it this week. I also need to deliberate the core features/look and how I want to present this documentary so I dont just film a load of shit and put some captions inbetween...
I'll be editing together the 97 lovers music video early next week which should be fun.
Blog posts to come:
How to train your Dragon: a review
Kick Ass: a review
Whats next?
piracy/DEbill
more future thoughts
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Update
I thought it would be better if I only write an update after something significant happens, like a shoot or a particular creative development I experience, this saves me worrying about how many week updates I haven't done and trying to remember what I didn't do. I think I remember talking briefly about the 'twits' idea for a series of short documentaries where I would recreate some tweets randomly sampled from twitter with a particular hash tag. So far I have collected tweets from the following tags:
#VeryBadSituation
#Itsreallyannoying
#thankstwitterfor
#Imthekindofperson
I think I'll structure the docs with 5/10 tweets per episode, have actors play out a short action to go with the tweet which will be spoken in a voiceover, I'm not sure on the aethetcs of the doc yet, whether to make it surreal or funny or something, I'll decide that later.
This is the best Idea I've got so far and its quite original so I think I'm gona go for it, first step is to get a treatment off and then find some actors and voice over people, then I will probably shoot during the easter holidays, then I'll have four weeks to edit/make changes etc till its due in.
#VeryBadSituation
#Itsreallyannoying
#thankstwitterfor
#Imthekindofperson
I think I'll structure the docs with 5/10 tweets per episode, have actors play out a short action to go with the tweet which will be spoken in a voiceover, I'm not sure on the aethetcs of the doc yet, whether to make it surreal or funny or something, I'll decide that later.
This is the best Idea I've got so far and its quite original so I think I'm gona go for it, first step is to get a treatment off and then find some actors and voice over people, then I will probably shoot during the easter holidays, then I'll have four weeks to edit/make changes etc till its due in.
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