Editing

We are now at the editing stage piecing our rough edit together. Once the footage was in an order, we cut parts and muted the sound.
We showed our rough cut to our module leader and her feedback was very helpfully as it guided us into make the project have an effect. Our module leader said that the film had more of a dreamy outlook rather than a spooky uneasy affect, she said in her opinion that the project was a bit boring in the sequence we put it in and that newer images should be added.
Luckily, we had quite a lot of footage to look through which was a major advantage, however, due to the rainy weather some of that footage had been spoiled by rain drops on the lense of the camera through no fault of our own.
We then went back to properly editing our work and putting it in a more coherent narrative. As we wanted to make our project spooky and un-sure, we add a desaturation to each clip making it black and white. This worked well and we decided to keep it this way, we sped up some of the clips and even used reverse narrative, which I insisted upon.

Filming in Edale

As predicted the weather in Edale was atrocious. The sky was dull and we all got very wet, some of our shots were jeopardised by this and it was very stressful. However, Edale is a glorious place and we was able to capture a large amount of successful footage.
I was worrying though that some of the footage may be too repetitive and boring.
Another blow to the day as well was our change of mind to our project, we decided that we didn't want to do the seven deadly sins idea. We kept the same storyboard and shot list concept but changed our idea. We wanted to make our project spooky, we also wanted to create un-easy for the audience. Our storyline now is entering the woods by showing close ups, to extreme close ups with the footage getting faster and faster then at the end we zoom out of the trees, exiting.

Equipment list

Me and my partner sat down and went through everything we would need, we realised that in Edale we would be doing lots o walking and so we decided to not over pack on items that did not seem appropriate. We checked the cameras out at the university and checked everything together and the batteries were fully charged.

This is the list of equipment we will bring to Edale:

1) PD170 Camera
2)Tri-pod
3)2x mini DV tapes
4)Climbing Harness (If rope is available)
5)Climbing rope (if available)
6)Plastic bags for rain cover
7)Warm clothing/suitable footwear/waterproofs
8)Food
9)Torch
10)Map of local area
11) Mobile (for emergencies)
12)Planning/work documents
13)Contingency money
14)Back pack to contain some items

Changing idea concepts

Whilst discussing our project we came up with a change of idea. We will keep to the same concept of, 'Emotion through trees', but instead change the various emotions to the seven deadly sins. We came up with this idea as we think our project will be too ambigious to our audience, if we choose trees that represent these sins and still use the one word sentences to describe the tree maybe the audience would understand this and see what we are trying to achieve.

SEVEN DEADLY SINS:
Wrath
Envy
Sloth
Greed
Pride
Lust
Gluttony

Shot List

As stated in the storyboard, we did not know what order we wanted our sequence in, so we created the shots we wanted in the shot list and put them in a jumbled order, then in post-production we will determine what shots we want and where to put them.

Shot List

My only concern to our shot list is that we may not have three minutes worth of footage. We have come up with an idea of prolonging each scene but this may cause our footage to look like still images. We will see what we can do in post-production to solve this matter.

Storyboard

Due to us not having a narrative we did not know what order we wanted to film our sequence in, however we knew what shots we wanted to take. Also, we didn't know what part of E-dale we was going to visit so we didn't know if we would be able to acquire some of the shots we wanted. Me and my partner created a storyboard with the shots we wanted to use and put them in a rough order for the basis of our storyboard.

Further Research

As we wanted to represent emotions, we needed to know how many emotions there is. Looking at various websites I found an interesting site that explains various emotions, it also delves into what triggers emotional arousal such as food or the weather.

http://changingminds.org/explanations/emotions/emotions.htm

This is an extremely useful website and it has helped me and my partner lots. With this website we can now be able to go and film trees knowing what we are looking for.