Documenting The Doing #2 - One Hour Photo

Our second task of the beginning of our college experience began on our third day of college. We were told we were going to be interpreting certain scenes of a Robin Williams movie, 'One Hour Photo'. There was a group of 4 of us; me, Liam, Jack and Tyler. We didn't designate any specific areas we would act as to begin with, but by the time we had organised where we were going to shoot, we had decided. Jack would be the model who appeared as Robin Williams, Liam would be the 'props guy' so to speak, organising where the best place to shoot was and what we would use. Me and Tyler were in charge of the camera, positioning of Jack in association with the camera and making sure the lighting and scenes were appropriate and clear for the shots.

We planned our shots by clearly designing a story board

We found some really good locations to shoot, which did interpret the scenes from 'One Hour Photo' really well, and it was certain that the audience would know which scene was which by just watching it, as we did the scenes in chronological order. For every scene, we used the appropriate location for the scenes the best we could, and the only scene we went a bit off track for was scene eight. Instead of doing the blank aisle look, we went for the complete opposite and filmed in the library, with a busy backdrop for our own unique twist.

Overcoming problems was easily achievable as all of us in our group were on the same wave length. We found finding the locations quite easy. The only slight problem we had was sorting out the positioning of the camera and editing on Adobe Premier Pro. None of us in our group had ever used this editing software before, so it was a slight struggle as we could only complete basic transitions and effects, but we made the most of what we could do and excelled our knowledge to the best we could.

As a group, I feel we all chipped in to making this project successful. We may have struggled with the editing, however the shots/scenes we created during filming made up for that. I feel they were up to high standards as we picked suitable locations for all of the scenes, and put a unique twist on the long distance shot to make it different.

For some reason, we didn't export the video properly and something went wrong during the transferring of files from the camera to the computer, so I was unable to insert the video on to this blog.

Cheerio. :o)

- Olivia.