Week 005 - No Animatic.

Hours: 4.

Driving takes a lot of time.
Kalli came to pick me up and we went together to Uni to pick up the Insurance forms that she had waiting for her.
While we were driving, I was filling out the RIGHT (there's a difference between photography and filming permit applications... and I just realized that morning as I was filling it out, that it was completely the wrong one) form. We decided to leave Kalli as the Liasion and the forms under her name, as she was the main point of contact for Parks Victoria.

When we got there - they were closed. :( I supposed that they were on their lunch break, so we went off for some lunch at Fountain Gate and a wander around to kill time.

After coming back and picking up the form, we headed to Lysterfield park and where the Park Office was.
Met up with Michelle Mueller - she seemed really strict and a bit concerned, like we were a bunch of teenage kids that was going to vandalise her park.
Also a bit concerned about VB's subject content - which left both Kalli and myself trying to convince her that it was all proper, and there wasn't going to be anything explicit about it at all, that's not the point of the film anyway.

I ended up having to sit down in their office and type up another paragraph or so, detailing that we were filming trees. :D Also had to detail that we weren't going to use the Park name in any way, no signage, etc.
Somehow, in the back of my mind, I couldn't help but shake my head at all the formalities and legalities we are going through for a student, No Budget, No Profit, Only for Assessment film.
(Okay, we are putting it into In The Bin, and there is a possible cash prize at the end of the horizon...)

I know we're meant to do this and it's proper to get our actions and everything legalised. It just really caught me off guard that there was all this, pardon me, whoo-haa into our film and so much concern and worry.
I wonder, if all the time I was running around with a camcorder with friends in the Botanical Park - should I, did I, have to get a permit for that? I'm not making any profit out of it, and it was just me filming anything I felt like - so I suppose it doesn't count as a "real" production.

We then went to explore Churchill National Park a bit more - just to scout out locations and find out good places that we could film.
There were quite a few, it's quite "jungly" out there, so should work well.
In some ways, I wished it was a bit more green and lush - but would have to go into the city for that. It's a bit more bushy out at Churchill.
We threw around some shot ideas, wondered if we could capture a butterfly and film it on a blue-screen (does that count as harming wildlife?) and both agreed that we shouldn't take more than a day to do the Day shots.

Also threw around some shot ideas, effects, and worries we have about doing it in color - Kall suggested Black and White, I'm not too keen on it.
I'm more keen on either washed out or over exposed effects - they would really help to enhance and convey the mood that the character is feeling.
We also talked about timing, getting the shot long enough for the voice over to match. Kalli was worried about overusing tree shots - but I think it would be fine since there will be many intercuts. The audience won't be bored.

So hopefully next week Animatic.
Well sit down and really document all the things that we're going to shoot and come to an agreement about what is the look and feel of the film.
I'm worried in some ways about the creative process and vision being taken away from me - that my vision of the film and how I feel it should play out and that it won't come into agreement with Kalli's vision. Hopefully we'll all come to some consensus that we all can live with.
A lot of Peter's previous ideas that he had are quite similiar to mine - so hopefully when we all sit down on Tuesday, everything will be fine.

Here's hoping for good weather.
Otherwise it'll be paperwork.