For the draft of this segment of the film, I used my sister as an actress. I did this because this part of the film is about my attitude towards photography before I broke my wrist and I needed to keep my cast out of it and make it seem as though this really is before "IT" happened.
When I drafted this segment of the film, I got the general idea of what I wanted to create. For example, with the first scene where I am on a chair, I was trying to portray the idea of Francis Bacon and his chair triptych images. This edit of the first film wasn't particularly about polishing off all of the ideas, as much as just getting the basics down and seeing how it all looked together.
In this portion, I got the ideas down about how I was going to show my new attitude toward photography and although this doesn't appear to show much, this process was essential to planning out how I was going to produce my final edit of my final piece.
Within these drafts, I have done a lot of takes, all building up to the final outcome with an increasingly clear image of exactly what I want my final piece to look like. At this point (when I had all of my drafts in place) I had a very fuzzy image of what exactly I wanted, all I knew was that Francis Bacon would be a huge influence on this film and the way that it would be presented.
The aspect of this project which took the most time was definitely the outtakes of all of the films for example the artist research film, I wanted to complete each artist's segment of the film within one take so that the film felt like it flowed all the way through. I originally thought that this was going to be relatively easy, but after a few attempts, it proved itself to be quite a challenge. I had many challenges with the editing as well when I went to use the chroma key tool on sony vegas. For example, when I picked the shade of blue that I used to get the green screen effect, it cut out my eyes, this is only evident during the intro of the artist research film as I am on a white background, whereas during the actual film, I am on a black background so it is a lot less evident.
The next most challenging element of film work as opposed to working in a sketchbook was editing, there were many challenges in this part of the film. Although, it was less the lack of knowledge of the program, and more to do with the amount of time it would take to put all the clips together, put the transitions in and render the whole thing. It ended up that I would spend about 20 minutes filming and up to two or three hours to edit them all together, even then, I only had the rough outlines of what I wanted the film to end up like, and these were only the single segments that went into the three parts of the film.
I felt as though within this project, as well as using Video, that it would be a good idea to used images as well. Although I felt that this would be a good idea, I didn't want the images to break up the flow of the video. I created on image in particular which I thought represented really well the whole idea of my project, this being how my attitude had completely changed in response to photography.
I think that this image is really effective as it shows both the behind the scenes and how my attitude has changed. I think that the most effective hidden message behind this image is that it shows the fact that I have taken ownership of this project.
