Edale

Edale was a trip we went on to film a short silent 3 min film. this film could be about anything from a documentary to slide shows. me and my partner decided to experiment a bit with our idea. by trying crazy camera angels and wild zooms. our experimental piece was all about technology in the out doors. we at first wanted to go with an adam and eve sort of idea, as if an apple laptop was the apple from the tree and some loose cables was the evil snake. we thought this was a good idea although couldn't really figure out how to make this into a 3 min piece.
so after a bit more sitting down and thinking we stuck with the original idea of technology in the out doors but not concentrate on the adam and eve part although we may incorporate it as a random shot. so we chose our final idea as being lots of close ups and camera wiggling on the technology may it be a phone, mouse, laptop, external harddrive etc. and we would then place this equipment in beautiful country side surroundings, from the streams the side of a valley aslo just really nice picturesque spots through out edale.
we arrived in edale on the 27th of october. it was a very miserable day which didn't help when it came to finding the perfect locations and creating the right sort of shot with the ideal amount of colour and contrast in it. we spent the whole day walking around finding the best looking places with the right amount of brightness which was rather difficult on a gloomy yorkshire day. we did a number of shots from a mini dv camera next to a stream, a mouse on a tree surrounded by wires with a lovely willow tree in the background looking onto a really nice view, there were also the laptop in a tree idea, a nintendo wii hiding in some leaves as well as a mobile phone hidden away in a nice long shot. the easy part was done. getting the shots was easy enough despite the bad conditions.
the real difficult bit came in the post production. although we had lots of footage we had made the mistake of not getting enough different angels of the technology in the out doors. and replaying the same footage over and over agin is just boring to look at. so after finally getting a proper idea of the structure of the story we went back out to Edale and filmed a few more shots, this filming was easy enough as we new exactly what we wanted this time round. my partner was extremily helpful and probably had a better idea in hi head of what he wanted this short project. so i left the more creative part to him as i concentrated more on the actually filming making sure all the time codes and lighting and shots all looked nice and smooth. after we got our extra footage we got to do editing. this was a huge challenge for me and my partner as neither of us have used final cut before and our very brief introduction wasn't as help full as it possibly should have been. so after a lot of fiddling about our final piece of work was finished. its finished of being 3min and 6 seconds including titles. its finished of basically alt of quick close ups slowly zooming out to see the technology as one with the wildlife and out doors. i believe it looks like a decent piece of work and im happy with the out come.
(pictures to be added shortly)