Film

My main job in the group was to create a short film. This film will be shown at the beginning of our presentation. My initial idea for the film was to have lots of images with some sort of back ground noise. The images would all relate to theme/concept, it would slide through sort of in a similar way to that of family slides on a projector.

I then talked to some tutors about this idea. I told them I wanted to create some suspense and make the audience feel something weird. I did not want to make your average film basically. I was given the idea of sounds. I began thinking of all the sounds I could and made a long list of them. Sometimes less imagery can be more effective then too much imagery and with that in mind I began filming.  I had the idea of writing spells and smoke, those were the only images I really wanted in the film. I was going to add some sort of material movement that would be very reflective of the head pieces, however I could not think of any way to display this well and also most Comme videos do not relate directly to what they are trying to sell at all. So with that freedom I stuck to the three simple clips of writing and candles. I did not have a a noise recorder to record the sounds so I just filmed the noises, for example I lit a match then during the editing process I stripped the sound and dragged it under a black screen and deleted the video. This was a very long process to do for every sound. If I were to create this film again I would probably think more about the colours in each shot. I could of done some cool stuff like used filters, this would of added a nice tint to the shots. Considering colour was important for each designers identity in the collections this may have been really effective.

Here is the first cut of the film

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