From watching our first draft, I feel that we need to use more colours, and use non-munipulated lights.
I decided to watch some films where the director has not shaped the lights, and has just used an ordinary blur.
I really love the vibrant and saturated colours that the director has captured in this piece. Although the lights are not changed into shapes, the colours make it captivating and engaging for the audience. I really want to develop the colours used in our film. Compared to these colours, they could be brighter and clearer.
The music used is very calming, and makes the piece flow. The music that we have used in our first draft is very competitive. From our feedback the audience didn't like the repetitive music. This is another one of the elements we need to work on.
Before creating our music, we decided to play current music over the top of the footage, to see which style of music would fit best.
Firstly, we tried Lana Del Ray's "Video Games". Her music is slow and calming. When watching the footage, it created quite and emotional piece. We felt that the film needed to be cheeky and lively. Also, some of our shots are quite quick paced, and the music did not enhance the rhythm of the footage.
We then tried Bon Iver's "Holocene". His music is faster, and more upbeat. When watching the footage with the music it fitted the rhythm of the shots perfectly. The guitar and slurred, smooth vocals really made the piece feel like it was travelling and flowing smoothly. The major key of the music made the film full of life, rather than de-saturated. The saturated sounds also suited the bright colours of the lights.
We then tried to re-create this acoustic sound in Garageband. I was struggling to make a 3 minute song using the Garageband loops. A friend suggested we use his updated version on his ipad.
I used "Smartguitar" to create our guitar sound. Whereas in garageband on our school macs limits you to the loops, this version enabled me to choose my own chords, beats and pace of the music.
For example, I used the chord sequence, CGCFCG. This is more free than the loops, which are in locked keys that cannot be changed easily.
After creating the guitar part, I then added some beats.
After creating my drum and guitar sections, I exported the song to itunes and then imported it into premiere to go with our footage.
Final song is below....
We also decided that it would be nice to maintain some natural sounds within the film to introduce different locations and forms of travel. We added sea and seagull sound effects to the beach scene and traffic sounds to the road scenes. This made the film flow more from scene to scene and also gave it a sense of travel and taking a journey.
We began filming, but struggled to find ideas because we had no target audience. We felt that the experimental film genre targets a teenage - young adult audience, because of its challenging techniques and free and quirky style. This helped us decide on what images to use along with the theme of travel, and which locations to film in. We wanted to keep the filming local to myself and Jess, so that the film was more personal to us. We filmed in my hometown, Deal and around where Jess lives in Thanet. Because we were filming in locations that were personal to us, we were motivated and inspired by the locations and lights surrounding us.
We felt that we needed a broader variety of locations and scenes in our film. I decided to search on google maps for possible locations for our shoot. The screenshots below give an idea of the location and setting.
Long shot of train coming into Deal Station - lights from train will blur into a shape
Close up shot of Traffic lights - lights will blur into a word
Lights from Dover Docks. As you can see below, there are many bright lights at Dover Docks. I will be sure to gain more shapes and words from the docks.
Establishing shot of Dover Sea Front. I want to try and blur the reflections in the water. I want to create a glittery effect, and try and make it looke like a sparlky curtain using Bokeh.
Like before, I want to get the reflections from the water, only this time I want to blur the reflections into the shape of a bird. I also want to see what
