Saturday, April 16, 2005

Week 006 - Post Animatic.

Hours: 4-5 hours.

I'm not sure I'm too happy with the animatic.
We took too much time with the details.

Peter was originally the 'girl' - but somehow during the film I got roped into being the girl... which was fine but Kalli was stuck trying to get the one shot (we were in the park) for so long that by the time it was getting very very late.

Then Kall's battery died.

So we ended up shooting back at Kall's house - which I wasn't completely happy about either, being that it wouldn't be a "real" animatic being that the majority of the film was in daylight and we were doing it all in a house (and some driveway) and in the night.

I'm also very afraid and a bit 'prickly' that I feel I'm losing a lot of the creative control to Kalli.
I know she really wants to be the filmy person, the one behind the camera, but she and I disagree a lot on the creative vision of the film.

She probably is a better eye than me behind the camera - she probably is a bit fresher, whereelse I need a bit of a refresher course and they do confer to me on certain things while they might not agree on anyway (group scenarios, I suppose! :p) and we had chatted about it and decided that we could share the camera - and she had been having some troubles one time with getting a shot and I asked her if she would like me to have a go, but she was adamant about being behind the camera and that she was fine.

I don't want to push the issue because I don't want to upset the group dynamics - we have a pretty good one.

Personally I think that the film can add a whole dimension without showing any identities of people: people are less likely to take in contexts and pass judgement. But not only so, because we aren't using 'professional' actors I really fear that whoever (friend) ends up acting, just won't have the facial expression or know how to feel in the movie - and it's all going to come out on film. It's not the easiest emotions I've written and for them to pull off and interprete.

It might work, I don't know.
I saw a film that Kalli had made last semester - of her boyfriend Nathan and her friend Hannah. Nathan was fantastic, the camera loves him - heehee, and he looked really natural.
It would work if we had that in girl form.
But because we're behind schedule, and because I've seen how long it takes to set up shots and get it on the camera - I don't know that we have the time to waste stopping friends from giggling every two seconds.
I know they'll be as professional as possible - but it is inevitable.
We want to film all the bush scenes in a day.

I don't know.
Maybe I'm just a worrywart - and things will eventually iron out.
We were all a little stressed that day - worrying about other subjects as well.
I don't like having a lot of the creative control being taken away from me - but it is a group situation and I just have to deal. Kalli just has a different vision to me about the film (though some of it is quite similiar) and most of the time I just put deference to her so that we don't waste time and we just film the thing.

It is hard being the nature of the film - the animatic did really hit home however, about the approach we are heading towards and what we're looking for.
The film can go many ways and we'll just see where it all heads.
It is all about interpretation after all!

And despite my complaining and worries - I am lucky to have these three people as my group members. They're great fun - I had immense fun struggling with Peter while he tried to keep me from leaving the car even though he bopped me in the lip (I think he got a little TOO into the character. :p).
We have lots of laughs - so it's good that despite our creative muses bopping heads, it still doesn't affect the fun factor.

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