Blog 6

Finished my editing process bar adding a shot voiceover monologue over the opening footage. I've gone back and forth over whether it's something that needs doing but incorporating the 50 second still shot of me lit only by static is something I really want to do. However whilst the flickering light and the attempts by the camera to compensate make the image interesting it does need a little exposition just to explain what it is I'm trying to do. I've written and recorded the voiceover and plan to add it on monday.

In sifting through my own footage I decided to use the advice of my tutors and ditch the drug and scientific experiment motif. The theme and editing should be strong enough for this project to stand on. I initially chose the drug as a plot device, similar to the drugs and machines in Inception, a requirement but not to be focussed upon. However now I feel that incorporating that element into such a motionless opening would only complicate the ideas I'm trying to convey with a clumsy metaphor of TV as drugs.

 Inception Dream Machine

Expanding on my last blog- In the end after toying with editing footage of three films in I settled on two, Hot Fuzz and Beavis and Butthead. The third film, True Romance, has a great deal of potential and will be a part of my final project but including a third film might have overcomplicated the idea for the pilot. An initial edited version with it included still exists and I plan to use this as a starting point for my actual film.

 True Romance's lead characters meet in the cinema

I've also completed rough drafts of the 6 parts of my research report. There's some extraneous or duplicated material I might excise before submission but I think it works as a mission statement for my work so far. Only my Proposal and Production Schedule remain. The majority of my early schedule over Christmas will consist of organising a timeline and storyboard for my scenes and doing initial editing on those sections. Once those are prepared I'll shoot my own short 30 second contributions of connecting material. The production requirements for my own shooting are relatively low, perhaps a couple of hours a day for two or three days at most so I've no issue delaying those until I feel my films' overall structure starting to take shape.