the last shot of the short film has not been shot yet...why?
there was no way in hell the glass was going to shatter properly!
so instead, a few solutions came to mind
-sugar glass
-substitute/re-modelling
-ice
sugarglass - most people will know, is not extremely hard to make but very hard to mould into specific shape
subsitute - the idea being i'll smash some random glass and pick up bits that looks like it could be part of the rose and glue them all together - then i let the real rose drop onto a cushion(obviously not filming the rose) then thru editing intercut it into the fake rose falling and hitting the floor.
ice - baking playdoh mould made frm pressing the rose into the playdoh, and making ice with the mould - so it shatters easily!
still contemplating between substitute and ice...but....shall experiment soon!
20090227
20090224
ready - set - shoot
24th Feb 2009 - the day I dreaded - my shooting day.
Prior to shoot, I prepared everything I possibly could - on set I had child release, schedule, productiong brief, the script, the shooting script, the storyboard(framforge), risk assessments...the list goes on!
The crew consisted of Danny Peachey(sound and general assistant), Adam Sumner(director), Jack Boyles(Director of photography) and Jason Bickers(Light) and myself, producing and doing production stills.
I had a really good day filming - early start and a little stressful, but everything went perfect and exactly how i imagined and planned - the schedule was really useful and fortunately we were able to stick to it extremely well - we were even ahead of schedule by 2 maybe 3 hours and wrapped everything up abotu 5pm (as suppose to 8pm in the original schedule).
I owe a big thank you to everybody who's helped me with this project - the editing war will begin soon enough.
20090218
now i'm realllllly shattered
days on end runing back and forth
I have all three locations 'sorted' - still awaiting for the person in charge of the park to get back to me regarding location release. Other than that, all I have left now is cast the few actors and book the hotel room for shoot, book the equipments and get the right forms signed, we're good to go!
hotel room - Hotel Ibis
Park - Victoria Park
Frameforge completed - awaiting park manager to sign my form - risk assessment completed - script completed - casting still in progress, one more actor to go and i'd have finished casting, meeting with make-up artist to discuss my needs. It's all good.
frameforge rendered avi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtJ1W8OOvME
I have all three locations 'sorted' - still awaiting for the person in charge of the park to get back to me regarding location release. Other than that, all I have left now is cast the few actors and book the hotel room for shoot, book the equipments and get the right forms signed, we're good to go!
hotel room - Hotel Ibis
Park - Victoria Park
Frameforge completed - awaiting park manager to sign my form - risk assessment completed - script completed - casting still in progress, one more actor to go and i'd have finished casting, meeting with make-up artist to discuss my needs. It's all good.
frameforge rendered avi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtJ1W8OOvME
"Play Parade"
I went and gave a hand to a thrid year audiovisual student Bindni Karia.
She is currently doing her client project for her final year project - it sure is a lot of work - but she is very organised and we had a great half day with the kids.
her final year project is based on a company called Playworks - basically the company promotes the idea of 'play' - whilst growing up somewhere along the line we all forgot how once the world was just one big playgroud - children are then encouraged to play within this working shop, maximizing their imagination far beyond our imagination.
20090203
frameforge 3d studio
story goes, script goes, there's no better way to show what you're trying to make but a storyboard.
A good storyboard should contain all shots in prototype so whoever reads it should be able to visualise completely what it is the writer is trying to portraite.
In order to aid my storyboard, I've opted for a shooting script first - and now that it's done, all I'm doing now is frameforging the storyingboard.
Feels like I'm playing the Sims.
A good storyboard should contain all shots in prototype so whoever reads it should be able to visualise completely what it is the writer is trying to portraite.
In order to aid my storyboard, I've opted for a shooting script first - and now that it's done, all I'm doing now is frameforging the storyingboard.
Feels like I'm playing the Sims.
20090122
script polishing 1
Had a few feedbacks from a director and an actor -
the script is good, but the technicality gets increasingly complex. It is essential that I am able to divorce myself from the reality when continuing to polish the script as it's all to easy for me to write soemthing that I relate to and forgetting about the end audience.
I'm currently working on my character study - so I know how to develope the story better and give the character more detail.
I'm also going to start adding in series of questions and sub-script feelings in major scenes. It is becoming more and more apparent to me that since there is no sound, the narrative needs to be well delivered visually - to do that I need my actors to be able to know how to feel.
I'm working on the shooting script. I think it is essential that I don't give too much directions as to where the camera should go within the script as it is irrelevant to the actors. It will also help me straighten out exactly what I'm looking for visually, so to enable further visualizing in my small puny brain.
the script is good, but the technicality gets increasingly complex. It is essential that I am able to divorce myself from the reality when continuing to polish the script as it's all to easy for me to write soemthing that I relate to and forgetting about the end audience.
I'm currently working on my character study - so I know how to develope the story better and give the character more detail.
I'm also going to start adding in series of questions and sub-script feelings in major scenes. It is becoming more and more apparent to me that since there is no sound, the narrative needs to be well delivered visually - to do that I need my actors to be able to know how to feel.
I'm working on the shooting script. I think it is essential that I don't give too much directions as to where the camera should go within the script as it is irrelevant to the actors. It will also help me straighten out exactly what I'm looking for visually, so to enable further visualizing in my small puny brain.
20090120
marital difficulties
style - film noir / chiaroscuro
I want it to have a strong lighting contrast feel to it, perhaps a touch of elegance, just as the Baroque genre of Art - highlighting the details, but in black and white.
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An idea occured to me today - the idea of having several actors for the same scene and intercut during post-production to enhance the idea of loneliness - there's a bit of primal instinct in all of us, the fear of being alone.
Visually speaking, this will be messy and will require plenty of pre-planning, detailed. However, I think it would strengthen that theme I'm trying so hard to desperately explore by far.
Practically speaking, however, I think this may happen in the future instead of current. The cost and the cast management seem overwhelming - the project will be too big and too ambitious perhaps.
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I've spent a whole night trying to find something similar to what I'm doing - results are weak. I have no been able to find any (yet)
However, hours of research on marital difficulties have paid off - this may be weird, but its certainly worth the pain.
Through research, it has actually put me back in perspective - all the minor things that never strike you as 'harmful' towards a relationship all of a sudden were all lethal.
sites visited...
http://divorcesupport.about.com/od/canorshoulditbesaved/qt/maritalproblems.htm
http://psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/three_fears_haunting_relationships
http://psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/emotional_cheating
http://ezinearticles.com/?5-Signs-of-Relationship-Problems&id=502612
I want it to have a strong lighting contrast feel to it, perhaps a touch of elegance, just as the Baroque genre of Art - highlighting the details, but in black and white.
-------
An idea occured to me today - the idea of having several actors for the same scene and intercut during post-production to enhance the idea of loneliness - there's a bit of primal instinct in all of us, the fear of being alone.
Visually speaking, this will be messy and will require plenty of pre-planning, detailed. However, I think it would strengthen that theme I'm trying so hard to desperately explore by far.
Practically speaking, however, I think this may happen in the future instead of current. The cost and the cast management seem overwhelming - the project will be too big and too ambitious perhaps.
-------
I've spent a whole night trying to find something similar to what I'm doing - results are weak. I have no been able to find any (yet)
However, hours of research on marital difficulties have paid off - this may be weird, but its certainly worth the pain.
Through research, it has actually put me back in perspective - all the minor things that never strike you as 'harmful' towards a relationship all of a sudden were all lethal.
sites visited...
http://divorcesupport.about.com/od/canorshoulditbesaved/qt/maritalproblems.htm
http://psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/three_fears_haunting_relationships
http://psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/emotional_cheating
http://ezinearticles.com/?5-Signs-of-Relationship-Problems&id=502612
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