Project Research

We decided to choose idea 3 for our project as this is more creative and experimental. We wanted to get as much inspiration to try and interpret others work into our film. I looked at many websites on trees and how they are represented. I looked on YouTube and found a song, 'Rush the trees', it is quite inspirational, the video for the song has a lot of images of trees , each image inspired us and we wanted to interpret some of these images in our project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

Deviant art shows a lot of images that are easy to access; me and my partner looked at tree emotions. We found hundreds of images of tree emotions (a lot of these had been photoshoped), we thought in post production we could interpret these effects using colour saturation and various other colour correction effects.

http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=tree+emotions%2C+tree+in

As an avid fan of lost I viewed a clip that I wanted to try and interpret in our project, this would work well with our project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulwWolBrcbo

This extreme tilt up looking at the forest top technique is used in a lot of films and I think it works well and I have always wanted to experiment this, now this project will allow me to do this.

Third Idea

'Emotions'

For our final idea we wanted to film 'trees representing emotions'. This is a strong idea because Edale is mainly made up of vast open land and various types of trees big and small so we will have a lot to film. For our idea we wanted to film trees representing various emotions such as, strong and upright trees can be percieved as stable and secure. Leaning and withered trees can be percieved as exhausted , sad or giving up. Entwining trees or grouped trees can be percieved as frustrated, madness, anger or they could be percieved as strong reliable and safe, for this we would show one word titles next to the trees to show understanding.

This is a more creative idea but as it is a silent project we did not know if our audience would understand our meaning.

Second Idea

'Journey'

For the second idea we wanted to represent 'Journey'. We wanted to create an emotional journey represented in a physical way. We wanted to interpret concepts of the first idea, using the use of small spaces, but gradually the spaces getting bigger and more open. With this idea we also wanted to show the decay of nature through urbanisation, abandonment and over all decay of time, for example, showing buildings that have been abandoned and broke down, also the texture of trees and roots to show age. I like this idea as we will be able to collect a lot of shots. However, the only issue with this idea is we dont have a narrative, but i dont think that this will pose as a major problem.

First Idea

We reviewed, broke down and in other cases connected our mind map ideas and came up with various ideas as to what we could create for our project.

For our first idea we came up with the idea of 'Physical and emotional contrast of open and enclosed spaces'.
We thought for this idea we could film Forests to represent enclosed spaces showing claustrophobia and fear, representing all of this we would show an anonymous character cowering and writhing in-between the trees to represent his emotions.
We would also show open fields and the character dancing and smiling representing freedom and calmness.
We would also show different levels of observations, on cliff edges, in bunkers and in vast open spaces.
This idea is simple but can be effective but it may be perceived as a bit ambiguous to our audiences. I also think we won’t be able to capture people’s attention for three minutes but we did have a lot of creative ideas for this piece.

Mind Map 2

This is another mind map I created this time showing further creative values. I wanted to definatly include these ideas into our project as I think they are strong and beneficial ideas. Having researched into Edale I think these ideas will be capable. One of the ideas is 'camera angles', I thought the use of various camera angles would be extremely effective using our knowledge of long shots, tilts, pans, extreme close ups and hand held to create an effect.

Starting the project.

To begin with we teamed up in pairs, with my partner we decided to draw out a spider diagram, branching out our terminology of 'Place'. We came up with a lot of ideas and exanded off of these. We wanted to think outside the box with this project as we knew that being in Edale with limited boundaries as to what to film, a lot of pairs would have the same idea, or same images.

This is the spider diagram that we created, it's basic, but contains all the connotations of place.

PROJECT 1-Portrait of a Place.

Project 1.

We was given a project brief on Portrait of Place, asking us to shoot a 3-minute silent moving image on a place, this given place was Edale in Derbyshire.

In the project we could include;
. an exploration of a physical place.
. an exploration of a person/people within a place.
. a fictional place or characters being developed.
. a self-portrait within a place.
Any of these could be used in the style of a;
. Documentary.
. Drama/ Narrative.
. Experimental/ Poetic.