Footage for Video. For the dream scene, we shot various types of footage. The first footage was of the dead body being trailed along the floor the Parker character. By using a shopping trolley and mounting a tripod on it, this helped to create a smooth motion and a very slick and not shaking camera shot. This produced an effect as if the camera was not actually there at all. Editing this footage, I created several layers within it. The first layer was de-saturated and high contrast and gamma level whilst the other layer was a highly saturated cross processed colour effect and cropped in to 50 per cent. The third layer was the same saturation but cropped 25 per cent. This helped to create the effect of the surrealist dream that the character is re-living. The multiple layered shot helps to create the very close up motions and difficulty that the character has with moving the body for we see not only the entire image but also fractions of the image of the body e.g .its legs and hands. This multiple layered effect of different colours also connotes a dream like state as often in real life dreams we get the effect of black and white visions with flickering colours. Also, the mise en scene helps to connote the sense of a surrealist hellish nightmare.

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Research into time lapsed animation is one subject I am very interested in for it is sometimes the most powerful moving image that a film may include.

In these videos what has happened to the time lapse is quite unusual as the camera is not just fixed onto a tripod for the camera is placed on a track which moves whenever a frame is taken to create a three dimensional time lapse

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VideoTreatment.
Title name - "Twilight"
Plot - Narrative
The plot consists of equiallibrium, disequallibrium and at the end the audience and characters are left with no closure. Therefore the window is left open for inferences and enigmas.
The plot follows one main character through his daily life and through his descent into insanity which leads to homicidal tendencies. The video is split into two different narrative strands. One is reality and the other is his imagination which is clearly visible through visual iconography as I change the saturation of the colours accordingly. Also, blended with this I will create different layers on top with fraction of a second difference between each layer to create a juddered reality.
The main character will be represented as a loner and virtual hermit. The audience does not get to know the character very well during the film and therefore they have to make their own assumptions about the state of depression into which the character sinks and these assumptions are quite stereotypical. Through the film I will only have non-diagetic sounds to indicate emotions and states of mind. Also, as well as this, the cinematography will be constructed to represent three different emotions. The camera will be held very steadily at first and a very smooth motion will be created to indicate that the world is moving around the character and this helps to connote his state of mind at this stage. Camera movement number two will consist of the camera being placed in a fixed position with the character moving through the shot to suggest loneliness and isolation for there will be nothing else in the shot except the solitary figure of this character. These shots will be very symmetrical like the shots from Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" and Daniel Boyle's "28 Days Later" intro and also will be reminiscent of "Trainspotting". The iconography will also help to anchor the emotions and the overall plot of the story as the colours will be very de-saturated signifying boredom and depression. As well as this the shots will be in very high contrast to suggest horror and enigma. The editing will be very subtle with fades in and fades out and also there will be juxtaposing of one scene.




For this video production we will be focusing on the main character. Emotion and feeling will be displayed through the cimematography relating to his state of mind, loneliness, depression and isolation. By using surrealist shots and steady motioned shots from the camera which will produce a very smooth flow with no jarring to use the environment
. One shot to create this will be done using an escalator and tripod in order to create this smooth motion
A shopping trolley and tripod will be used to create a world that revolves around the character as the character is not moving himself unlike a simple camera shot where the camera is pointed and the subject walks by the camera.
Another shot using a mirrored effect on the camera to create a surrealist picture
.A shot of a fuzzed out TV with extreme close ups to create the sense of loneliness and intensity
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The pilot title sequence (clip above left) was created by Bernard Lodge, who filmed and manipulated the "howlaround" feedback of a TV camera pointing at its own monitor. A column of light rises before ripping and swirling, as if to suggest a journey through time. Delia Derbyshire's extraordinary original arrangement of the famous Ron Grainer theme music accompanies this footage, in its day the most alien-sounding piece of music ever recorded and still prone to sending a shiver up the spine.
For the Video production we are going to have the same sort of footage of looping the camera to the actual television with the silhouette within the frame as this will create a very surrealistic depiction of the character's nightmare and his state of mind or by using a mirrored effect to create a halucinogenic image.

Life Size Zoetrope by Mark Simon Hewis

The zoetrope is widely regarded as the precursor to movies and in this documentary we watch Mark Simon Hewis as he attempts to re-create the zoetrope movie effect life size using photos of naked friends in a whirling fairground ride. The story is well covered up to the point where the volunteers will have to enter the ride: then it stops. It is an interesting experiment so we hope the rest of the story is on its way to FourDocs.
http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/film/film-detail.jsp?id=45385




http://www.hewis.co.uk/LSZpresstimeout.html
http://web.mac.com/markhewis/iWeb/Site/The%20Life%20Size%20Zoetrope%20(2007).html




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