Intentions

The overall story arc of our film shows the progression of lockdown in Jersey which has and still is being experienced globally as the Covid-19 pandemic doesn’t discriminate. This provokes thoughts of experiences shared as a result of these unprecedented times. I think we managed to capture this quite well.

Collaboration

Throughout the project, me and my partner Jake had a clear vision, we knew the story we wanted to tell and we knew how to go about filming and editing it. Hence, we split out roles in order to be as efficient as possible, where Jake was the designated editor as well as being responsible for capturing much of the footage, whereas I was the director having come up with the story, scene composition, title and title scenes as well as pestering Jake on exactly how I wanted the film to look in terms of both recording and editing. Overall, we spent many hours on this project and none of it went to waste, with each of us pursuing our vision and completing it not only on time, but in a presentable way.

Recording/Editing

We used a story board initially as well as many written plans on how we will record the film. Much thought went into this process, however rather quickly we came up with a solid plan with strong foundations to which surprisingly, we have very well emulated in other final piece as all of it was featured with very minor tweaks from the initial plan. Not only that, it gave us a clear vision and made it easier to record and edit as we knew what we wanted/needed, thus speeding up the process as we were far more efficient. Editing is Jake’s forte, hence why we both agreed he should be our designated editor for the entire project. To utilise his skills, Jake used Adobe Premiere pro CC which would enable the use of smoother transitions as well overlaying stills and sound effects to give the film a more dramatic and realistic vibe with depressing, dystopian tones and moods as well as many other cool features that most other editing platforms wouldn’t allow for, all of which I will highlight in a future blogpost listed below…

Recording/Editing In-depth Blogpost https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo21al/2020/11/26/new-normal-recording-editing/

Conclusion

Overall, the project was plain sailing most of the way, although we did encounter the odd problem along the way which I will highlight in my next post when I delve into detail about the recording and editing process. All in all, I believe the final outcome has greatly demonstrated the large amounts of work put into this project, especially from my project partner Jake’s side as he was the designated editor. Overall, what took over 5 hours of shooting was condensed to only 3 minutes which is testament to the amount of hard work put into such a small result. Furthermore, this is further emphasized when considering that despite the ideal film length being set to 90 seconds, we couldn’t help but produce a film twice the length as the story we tried to convey through our film couldn’t be condensed anymore than it already has been in order for it to make any sense.

However, based on feedback, there isn’t much we would change, other than the length of the film as it was exactly twice as long as the specification asked for as mentioned, as well as possible the camera quality which could’ve ben improved, however this would’ve required a better/higher megapixel or better resolution camera, which unsurprisingly we didn’t have access to.