Film and Space project - brief 05 (development)

shot of final flat 2, looking distorted and out of place ( using projector and made image)

Follow on detail on the story-board drawings (more to follow)

Test shots and sketch drawing for stage set up last scene flat 2.

Figuring out sequence of events throughout the Film-

Scene 1 - Flat 1 – * Grabbing of cape from the wall (note – tutors said to take out phone in the filming part of this scene- photo shop)

* Walking down the spiralling stairs (change of shot views and angles, linking together to create disrupted imagery)

* Exiting the residence with the end shot from above.

Link between scene 1 and 2 – Looking at linking scenes with either shots of buses or undergrounds to represent the idea that little red riding hood has changed locations.

Scene 2 – Piccadilly - * Walking down Burlington Arcade (disappearing from view)

* Using the reflection from the bubble instillation at the royal academy of art. (We cannot directly show the installation so we will come up with a way to film the reflection without directly giving away on the film what the mirrored objects are.)

* Trafalgar Square, again we cannot directly use the exhibition of the roots but we can use the twisted forms of the roots but filming up close and abstracting what the objects as a whole are.

Linking between scene 2 and 3 here we are beginning to show the confusion between the wood and the city interlinking shots and blurring images together. This will aid in representing little red riding hoods distortion of reality.

Scene 3 – Wood - * shots and filming sequence of mixing between distorted images of the wood and little red riding hood.

* Use of point of view from both little red riding hood and the wolf (creating the impression that the viewer is part of the film allowing them to look from both angles)

* The ending of the wood scene beginning to blend with the following wood scene with the use of interlinking images of the city and wood. Merging together images to disfigure the faces of passers by in the city adding to the dilution that little red riding hood is experiencing.

Link between scene 3 and 4 occurs during scene 3. Images blend together and the transition between the two scenes occurs.

Scene 4 – City - * Shadow themes

* Using different angles

* Shooting from the top of building and filming while following little red riding hood. Using both from the wolf and red riding hoods point of view.

* Showing her progress through the streets, manipulating footage we have taken, of people’s faces and of the bodies.

While working through the film we looked at various movies and clips to get inspiration for types of filming and ideas on what to film. Films that we have looked at are “Nostalgia” and “don’t look now” as well as kids films like “Mary poppins” and “bed knobs and broom sticks”. We also looked at films on you tube such as

- "confessions of a agoraphobic (flaneur" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_eq_X_xG6I)

- "lulu lives here"

As well as films we looked at music and music videos such as

- high contrast “ Days go by” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OVOG108yQY)

-massive attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftOy8kz7aE)

both use dramatic and unusual ideas for their videos.

For the final scene ideas for filming –

- Having the projector turning twisting the room out of context.

- Little red riding hood turning and climbing with the room.

- Twisted vision.

- Figures behind the fabric on the walls and on the floor.

- Ceiling falling down.

Notes from 27/11/09 – Talk with Tutors

We will take notes on what has been said in this discussion as use it to redevelop areas of the film. The comments from the tutors were both positive and negative; the negative were constructive comments that we can review and see where we have gone wrong, these will be taken in to account throughout the next week when we are editing our work.

Comments from the Group

- After just exiting the flat add in footage shot down by waterloo of the waters edge and walking through the crowd.

- Trees / Wood add in slots of the city (overlap/ and over lay shots)

- When Little Red Riding hood exits Burlington Arcade cut shorter the end part of the shot we do not need to watch her walking down the street.

- Shorten the bridge scene shot in waterloo, as well as this lengthen the time when the bridge shot merges with the street pavements. Changing the degradation of colours to allow them to switch with a smoother transaction.

- Watch “Don’t Look Now” and reference in research.

Tutors Comments

- Have voices coming from nowhere working with the scene or with the music, use these to create and initiate an emotion. This adds a layer of uncertainty.

- NO TEXT, however with voice can be used but must be edited with care so as not to make it stick out with a sore thumb.

- Some scenes last way too long, change to see what brief and blunt shots would look like instead.

- Shots of character in some parts are too long; we know at the beginning that she is human. However fleeting glimpses of her would create this illusion that she was no human but was an animal or minster.

- Trying just to get the cape in the shots.

- Take out the shots of the metro not needed. Instead snap shot of her entering the train station, the one of the getting on the escalator, then the footage of her going down the escalator. However cut short the end of the escalator footage till just after she appears. Then jump straight to the footage of her getting on the train. Short and sweet!!

- Reduce the amount of effects used; this will create continuity, understanding, and relation throughout the movie. Understanding the function of the effects used allows for the movie to flow.

- NO pop and NO jazz, no music that is noticeable to the viewer, best thing to do is to make our own music and make it suit the film adding understanding,

- Maybe listen to the “Don’t Look Now” sounds track, the music used is obscure and fits the action-taking place. Also look at the sound track for “Stalker”.

- Reduce the amount of wobbly footage. However the use of some is good as creates an uneasy feeling.

- Use sounds that make the viewer feel uneasy such as screeches, loud piercing sounds, loud busy noisy places etc.

- Try to link scene more coherently such as the woods scene and the use of Trafalgar square, the mirror bubbles and the convex tube mirror. Maybe look at making this some form of disjointed imagery.

- Reflection of cape linking with city scenes, not having the mirror bubbles right before the convex mirror shots.

- For the end of the film, Little Red Riding hood could be consumed by what she views as reality; which is not reality in fact. The sheets surrounding her could engulf her, these might symbolise her imagination and her thought pattern.

LOOK AT AS A GOUP FILM CALLED THE RED SHOES….

Music video for red shoes by Kate bush

Look at the Red Shoes story by the Brothers Grimm.