Tutorial: Thursday 09/02/2012

In the morning of the tutorial we all got together again to work a little more on the editing, this was the first time I had seen what the other two had edited and so I was able to pin point clips that didn't fit in and ones that worked really well. Then it was off to see Esther who gave us a range of suggestions and thoughts that we used as a spring board as to how we could improve our work.

Structure of shots can be tightened.

In the edit we could zoom in to give the piece a grainer look.

Get rid of the "Why Colour" shots.

Balls of colour on the clock.

Candles were the weakest shots. (Which we were planning on re shooting)

Split up the shots of the balls popping up to happen throughout.

Also our piece is lacking sound, which was something that we have had at the back of our mind during the production process. Initially we thought about using narration before deciding that it would take away from what we wanted the piece to say. Since then we have been at a loss, but there have been a few idea floating around such as reversing sounds to give an eerie off centre chilling feel using wind chimes. Esther did give us a few ideas which again we took into consideration and bounced ideas off of.

Putting a contact mike on something that is filled with air or water.

An olden kettle coming to boil that would increase the tension.

Making whatever sound we choose to be strange but not to over the top try-hard strange.

Juxtaposition of perhaps having a happy music with the depressing scenery.

Lastly different sources we could look at to help us for the rest of the project

1960's Mime Artists

Jacque Tati - Playtime, Mr Hulas Holiday

Eraserhead - David Lynch and Allan Splets

Overall I think it was an okay tutorial especially because we all thought that what we had so far was completely worthless, so it was nice to hear that there was still some potential and hope to making it a successfully finished piece in time for next weeks assessment. We were going to go back and do some more editing but decided against it as we weren't in the mood and I always feel it's a lot nicer and more efficient to work when you are in the mood to do so.