Poem 1 Animatic

Before we could film the scenes for the poem, we needed a more clear idea of the timings of each scene.

Using his storyboard, Alex made an animatic for the poem. Alex also got his friend Adam Fergler, who is music student , to produce the music for both the poems for us. This was very useful for us as we didn't have to worry about fitting the edit to pre-existing music.

Untitled from Adam Fergler on Vimeo.

Animatic by Alex. Music by Adam Fergler 

Poem 1 ideas & Storyboard

As a group, we decided to look into the poem and Analise it in great detail. We took out key details from the poem we found interesting. The most interesting themes we got from the poem is that of a forbidden love story and the city being a negative influence.

We then decided to separately come up with some ideas for scenes, so we could get a more clear idea of what we wanted to do.

 

I liked the idea of the city being an evil influence and tried to think of ideas for that. I drew out scenes of a skyline with a timelapse, static going over the screen and a faceless businessman. The static would symbolize how unreal the city can be to real life and the faceless businessman being a personification of greedy corporations. Ultimately we didn't go with many of these ideas, though we did utilize the timelapse with the city skyline.

We decided to focus a lot more on the forbidden love aspect. Both Alex and Sophie produced a test storyboard for the poem. We looked over both and decided that we were playing on the religious side of things too much.  Overall we went with an edited version of Alex's storyboard for the final storyboard.

Storyboard made by Alex.

Poem 1

We have all been put together in a group and each given ourselves roles (Ryan, Tom: Camera Alex, Sophie: Storyboard Tom, Daryl: Editing) There will be some overlap with the roles but I think this will be alright.

We have been given a poem to produce a short two minute film inspired by it. The poem we have been given is 'Outline Your Implications' by Razia Afzal.

Razia Afzal

Outline Your Implications

Force feed your diminishing, decadent desires.

You stitch and outline every lie in an idealistic insane manor.

Outline each implication, and re-enforce your own version.

Characterise me and state me, within a controversial, concealed category.

Freedom of an open-minded human being ceases to exist.

Breed the birth of analyzed emotions.

Hindered, lavished love does not level with her silk satisfaction.

Expectations are tightly sealed, within this hopeless century.

The city promotes carnage, which is tormented with ridiculed rage.

Welcome fiends, to the branded mimicking millennium.

A person could bleed you dry and squeeze the last penny, from a boneless, breaking body.

An impulse of greed is every follower’s Religion.

She sustains and conceals a faint finished memory of the love with a foreign man.

But loving him was felicity, breaking every boundary within her.

The magic, lust and love were another fantasy carving a sin, within her mechanic al memory.

She must obey and command to follow the system.

A virtualised afterlife abolishes her love for a ruthless man.

She preys on the innocent men.

They cherish each kiss and tarnished touch.

An empty hole tightly tugging, her harmonic heart strings.

He predicted every aspiring aspect of her frail future.

She takes the long route, but yet she never discovered her own self-identity.

The high demand in the public’s aspirations grows and grows, till there is no space for gossip galore.

Negative perceptions are sprayed within the air, and replenished with agony.

False lights are signalling the negative vibes across the channel.

Lie once, and again, but your prediction was a complicated framework lining, every eventful aspect again.

The Astrologist will re-create the foreseeable future, to the girl again. 

Already we have been discussing as a group where we can go with this poem. We are quite intrigued by the love story in the middle of the poem. We will develop more ideas.

How to Make an Egg! & Making of

This is my instructional video for how to fry an egg. I have tried to keep to the storyboard I created as much as possible, though there have been some changes and problems. I am very happy with the black and white scenes, which came out a lot longer than expected as I wanted to keep it to the music. There are certain scenes which I feel could of been improved on. Such as the egg smash and the recording of the actual frying of the egg. I originally recorded the audio at my house, but some of the recording didn't turn out as well as I thought they would. I ended up recording it in College, which turned out much better than my house recording.

I also recorded myself going to the field scene and setting up for the video with my other camera.

Individual film ideas & storyboard

For our first task we had to create a one minute instructional video. This could be done in any style and be about anything we wanted. Immediately I started to sketch some ideas.

 

I decided I wanted to do an instructional video for something very simple (How to fry and egg) and make it very melodramatic. I also wanted to make it funny so I would juxtapose the very serious scenes with more comedic scenes.

After I fleshed out some ideas for my film I created a storyboard for the key frames of the video.

I planned to make the serious scenes black and white, taking place in a field. It would then cut to the actual instructional part of the video in full colour and in the kitchen. All of the scenes in the video would only require a crew of one, with the use of a tripod.