Posted in General, Post by Sylvia - Director

Welcome to Week 2. 2nd Gear.

We have a complete script!!!!!! It took me and Joel many many hours in the library throwing ideas back and forth about structure, camera shots, characters, dialogue. Although it is admittedly still in draft stage, I don’t think I’ll ever be perfectly happy with it, but that’s just my perfectionist tweaking nature. So currently I’m working on the re-draft already, fine-tuning and I feel like we’ve all got our hands full with stuff to do. Which is good.

We had a full read-through with the cast members today, (minus Moon who couldn’t attend, and Shug who needs to be cast still [these are punk band characters, not real names heh]) and I started to see the overall picture. We also had a play about with water balloons and a camera (keeping the two very much apart for obvious reasons) to experiment with how we are going to capture our slow-mo water balloon shot. AND we got out the basics of Linda’s bedroom set to see how we were going to move the walls apart for the Union Jack psycho scene where Linda hallucinates that her parents friends and headmaster are all talking about her, all of which will be chroma-keyed onto a green screen that comes in when the walls part. Which, went quite well. There are still adjustments to be made on the set layouts but they’re coming together slowly.

 

SO, feeling positive and kinetic,

 

ROCK ON

Posted in Post by Gideon - Sound

Can you ‘ere me now? Week: One

After a sobering meeting with tutor, Neil, I feel we all came out of that room with a good idea of what we have to do to acheive our best in this project. The key was CREATIVE ASPIRATION & VISUALISATION! It was clear from the critique that whilst there may have been a wealth of research and creative ideas it wasn’t coming across in the film. The suggestion to remedy this was greater communication between all fields. So, what is one sound director taking forward with him into the new semester? Well, definitely the note about communication and participation is something I’ll like to improve on, always helps to get a second opinion or helping hand. The next is really about pro-activity, I need to make this piece stand out aurally and showcase what I can acheive. Also being more organised would help, I aim to have completed a work shedule by the next time I post so I can really see how behind I am! Anyway, lots to do. G.

Posted in Influence, Post by Sylvia - Director

Fly on the wall-paper

This is from a spanish film, All About My Mother, by Pedro Almodovar. His set designs and costumes are really carefully constructed and I particularly like this wallpaper for the 70's look.

 

As part of my dissertation research I have been watching all of Pedro Almodóvar’s films, and they have been really useful for inspiring my camera shots and making dialogue seem natural. I have posted this quick snapshot from one scene to show the set team what I was thinking of for the retro wallpaper of our set design.