Wednesday 21 October 2009

Transitional Spaces- RE SHOT

After looking at the footage we filmed at Liv's house of random-ness, we came to the conclusion that it was really bad footage. It wasn't well planned out and not thought out enough to be acceptable really, was a loada rubbish.
So last Monday, Debbie and I sat in the library and tried to think real hard about 'Transitional Spaces' (as i was still unsure). So transitional spaces- the bit in between places.. the journey between the start and the destination. E.g, places that you don't really think about, or take notice of as its a ..Transitional Space! Ie its nothing. So, to film nothing.. Hm. Im not going to lie, it was a hard concept for me to grasp for some reason?

So our idea;
- To film point of view to get a personal experience from this transitional space
- Character X (me) is waiting at a bus stop
- X takes notice of anything and everything, imagine yourself when at a bus stop what do you really think about? Do you think about your destination? Your departure? Random nothingy-ness things; colours of cars, people that walk past, whats in your pocket, the time, and something i do a lot is make lists of things in my head (of things i need).. eg, milk, bread, paper, kitchel roll etc etc
- To attempt to film a random thought process from X's p.o.v
- To shoot short clips of these random thought processes. We went into a newsagents and sought permission to film milk, bread, papers etc
- And also to shoot additional footage, Debbie shot me so that the group who got our footage to work with had a varied amount of footage/shots to work with if they didn't like the p.o.v perspective

After playing it back in the edit suite, was pretty proud as we accomplished filming in around an hour! And (more importantly).... it was so so much better than our original footage, and made sense playing it back.
Heres a short clip of some clips from our footage.
NOTE: Will upload later as file is too big!




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