We had to work in groups of around 2-4 people, so me and my colleagues Naomi Doddridge, Scott Friday and Sam Shaw all teamed up and were adamant that this would be our project to really make us shine and stand out from the crowd. We really wanted to pick some nice locations in which to shoot, and ensure the camera shots were on top form.
We began by throwing around a few initial ideas to get us started with the planning process - however for this project, no paperwork had to be completed. All of the ideas were piled together during a discussion and we just wanted to get out around the Plymouth area and film. We filmed using a Canon 600D and a tripod, allowing us full stability during the filming and crisp shots that would be of a high standard when editing. Sound wasn't an issue when filming as we already knew we would be putting the edit together to the track Dragonfly, by Nick Batterham.
My three fellow colleagues and I ventured out towards different places to see if there were any prime locations we could film that would be of a high quality. Firstly, we reached the burnt out church which was situated in the middle of a roundabout just down the road from college. With this location, we knew it would be a really nice quiet surrounding area and we wouldn't have any disturbances.
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| Our first shot of the day |
As this shot was quite stationary, we had a discussion about how we wanted our next shots to be more mobile and have a bit more life to them. We decided we would go back to college and find an empty room in which we could be a little more creative with props and 'stage directions'. Our ideas were finalised on the way up to college and we started to plan how we would work the last two shots. We were all keeping everything crossed in the hope that the shots would work as well as we were hoping.
With only half an hour left on the clock, we had to cram in two final shots of perspective. We decided that one would be using Skittles sweets as stepping stones, and the other would be using Red Bull cans as platforms, in which we would fall off.
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| Our final and favourite shot - Skittles as stepping stones |
Editing the production was going to be fairly easy as it would consist of the simple cutting and fading to the song we had been set. Going back to a previous production, More Soon, it was a similar concept. The whole group would upload their footage onto a hard drive, it would be passed around the classroom and we would edit the whole groups' productions together. With the More Soon production, I wasn't overly confident on editing and didn't really know my way around Adobe Premier Pro like I do now. With this forced perspective video, I really made the most of the limited noise breaks and made the whole thing flow, just like the soundtrack did.
My final production, in my opinion, turned out pretty well. I personally think the editing was simplistic yet effective, and had the same feel as the original Dragonfly video which was directed by Luci Schroder. I felt though, if I didn't put my own twist on it, it would get mixed in with the crowd and not really stand out. I decided that I would add a little extra on to the end, which was an actual dragonfly, along with my name and an ending credit which would round up the production as a whole.
MY FINAL PRODUCTION: Perpective - Dragonfly
I really enjoyed creating, filming and editing this documentary. I felt like as a whole it was really successful and considering we only had a day to complete the whole thing, we did pretty well. Forced perspective has always been a favourite feature, especially in photos, but now, I really would like to explore it more in future productions.
Cheerio. :o)
- Olivia.
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