Week 002 - Project Concept.
Just done my part on the project concept.
Well what I can do now without one of the documents I had written about the short film. I want to look over it to see what and why I had written the story, what my justifications were - well I need to read up about sex crimes and strange-rape in any case before I attempt that paragraph. :)
We're working quite well, we were discussing potential places to look at and have gotten the go-ahead from Ruben to look at some of them during our studio, so long as we hand in the doco. So, we'll go to the lecture and thus meet up; I'm having a quick meeting with Lindsay about the Macromedia Internship and then we'll be off tos scout around near my place - it's quite wild and rather 'treey' over there, so it should be quite ideal.
The other place, Kalli had suggested was Belgrave, but I pointed out that it might be difficult... I personally feel that we should be somewhere closer as it might get fiddly time-schedule wise as it takes quite a bit to Belgrave. I know it takes around 40 (in good traffic and a good run) to get to Lilydale, so maybe at the most it'll either be half an hour or the same time to Belgrave since they're quite close together.
And since they were thinking of heading to the Dandenong Observatory, that can take up to 40. (and that's at night)
But its worth a look nevertheless, if we decide that the place around my place (and quite central to everyone) is to be vetoed out.
We're also meant to slash my story to pieces, so I'll have a look at that over the weekend.
We allocated out parts of the document to everyone - everyone got two except me as since I'm doing purpose and overview on the project it was agreed that it would be the largest one out of all the document sections.
One of the discussion we had was about sound: some felt that the film could function it's purpose without the need of having a backing sound track and others (read: me) felt that it would need that something extra. I agree with them that, it was definitely true that it might create an eerie kind of quality to it, but part of me felt instinctively that the audience would need something to focus on apart from the voice/over.
I got the bulk of my argument a day later in Studio 2 when we were discussing sound. One good example is the DVD selection we saw of Unbreakable. The whole moody feel of the Train Station Scene could be something we could definitely try to emulate. The DVD section that we were shown basically had the scene with three different sound selections. The first was simply the effects, mostly diegetic to the scene, the second was simply the sound score and the third was the final cut. Of course, the third cut was the one that gave the full tension and mood of the film. Hence I had a smirk and a gloat in the lecture as to why we should have something in the background - if not as an elevation or addition to the mood and tension we'd create with the image, but also as an audio signature, as something that the audience can focus on subconsciously. Well, if it's a good soundtrack, they won't even realise it's there.
That of course brings forward the fact that if we were to have a musical score, I would be the one that would have to make it as I'm the only one that plays an instrument and is remotely confident about composing - since we're trying to say as far away as possible from any royalty or copyright issues.
Kalli did suggest something about getting free loops and samples of music online, which I agreed with her about but was worried about teh fact that they might say it is to be used for non-profit use, and as we could stand a chance in winning some kind of money or profit from it - the best suggestion is to try to make everything as original as possible.
It's good experience for all of us all around anyway.
Peter had suggested the beach as a location - and I had done a prelim shooting previously in a beach, at night and it came out quite well, I thought.
But we decided with treey places since I do agree, there's possibly much more to film.
Peter has a storyboard - he's so enthusiastic!
I'm still worried about just trying to get through all the docos before I sit down and start getting creative, although I'm one of those people that can't get what's in the head out into paper (as opposed to writing it out in so many words into a story that is...) - and would rather just get out there and film.
But, that's the way I work I suppose - and I should try to adapt to something that I can work with too.
I'm well aware we need a script and we need a storyboard so everyone knows what we're doing.
We had started discussing some of the imagery, and what we would like to include into the film - Kalli posing as the moon-figure... the reason for 'sticky' and patty cakes and how it was a question from the character that, look, we girls always feel the need and the compulsion to look pretty and do everything in our power to be attractive, but look what happened to me.
So our homework:
apart from the doco which is eminent that should be completed by today - hopefully, since I'll be reading it over and maybe retyping it so it sounds consistent (tone, style wise) I would like it pretty soon so we can get it out of the way.
- is to slash my story to pieces and find out things to include and things that are maybe and things that are impossible to film.
Well what I can do now without one of the documents I had written about the short film. I want to look over it to see what and why I had written the story, what my justifications were - well I need to read up about sex crimes and strange-rape in any case before I attempt that paragraph. :)
We're working quite well, we were discussing potential places to look at and have gotten the go-ahead from Ruben to look at some of them during our studio, so long as we hand in the doco. So, we'll go to the lecture and thus meet up; I'm having a quick meeting with Lindsay about the Macromedia Internship and then we'll be off tos scout around near my place - it's quite wild and rather 'treey' over there, so it should be quite ideal.
The other place, Kalli had suggested was Belgrave, but I pointed out that it might be difficult... I personally feel that we should be somewhere closer as it might get fiddly time-schedule wise as it takes quite a bit to Belgrave. I know it takes around 40 (in good traffic and a good run) to get to Lilydale, so maybe at the most it'll either be half an hour or the same time to Belgrave since they're quite close together.
And since they were thinking of heading to the Dandenong Observatory, that can take up to 40. (and that's at night)
But its worth a look nevertheless, if we decide that the place around my place (and quite central to everyone) is to be vetoed out.
We're also meant to slash my story to pieces, so I'll have a look at that over the weekend.
We allocated out parts of the document to everyone - everyone got two except me as since I'm doing purpose and overview on the project it was agreed that it would be the largest one out of all the document sections.
One of the discussion we had was about sound: some felt that the film could function it's purpose without the need of having a backing sound track and others (read: me) felt that it would need that something extra. I agree with them that, it was definitely true that it might create an eerie kind of quality to it, but part of me felt instinctively that the audience would need something to focus on apart from the voice/over.
I got the bulk of my argument a day later in Studio 2 when we were discussing sound. One good example is the DVD selection we saw of Unbreakable. The whole moody feel of the Train Station Scene could be something we could definitely try to emulate. The DVD section that we were shown basically had the scene with three different sound selections. The first was simply the effects, mostly diegetic to the scene, the second was simply the sound score and the third was the final cut. Of course, the third cut was the one that gave the full tension and mood of the film. Hence I had a smirk and a gloat in the lecture as to why we should have something in the background - if not as an elevation or addition to the mood and tension we'd create with the image, but also as an audio signature, as something that the audience can focus on subconsciously. Well, if it's a good soundtrack, they won't even realise it's there.
That of course brings forward the fact that if we were to have a musical score, I would be the one that would have to make it as I'm the only one that plays an instrument and is remotely confident about composing - since we're trying to say as far away as possible from any royalty or copyright issues.
Kalli did suggest something about getting free loops and samples of music online, which I agreed with her about but was worried about teh fact that they might say it is to be used for non-profit use, and as we could stand a chance in winning some kind of money or profit from it - the best suggestion is to try to make everything as original as possible.
It's good experience for all of us all around anyway.
Peter had suggested the beach as a location - and I had done a prelim shooting previously in a beach, at night and it came out quite well, I thought.
But we decided with treey places since I do agree, there's possibly much more to film.
Peter has a storyboard - he's so enthusiastic!
I'm still worried about just trying to get through all the docos before I sit down and start getting creative, although I'm one of those people that can't get what's in the head out into paper (as opposed to writing it out in so many words into a story that is...) - and would rather just get out there and film.
But, that's the way I work I suppose - and I should try to adapt to something that I can work with too.
I'm well aware we need a script and we need a storyboard so everyone knows what we're doing.
We had started discussing some of the imagery, and what we would like to include into the film - Kalli posing as the moon-figure... the reason for 'sticky' and patty cakes and how it was a question from the character that, look, we girls always feel the need and the compulsion to look pretty and do everything in our power to be attractive, but look what happened to me.
So our homework:
apart from the doco which is eminent that should be completed by today - hopefully, since I'll be reading it over and maybe retyping it so it sounds consistent (tone, style wise) I would like it pretty soon so we can get it out of the way.
- is to slash my story to pieces and find out things to include and things that are maybe and things that are impossible to film.
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