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Project Evaluation

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We were given 11 different sonnets to choose from for the fiction adaptation unit, and we had to choose the one that spoke to us the most. We had 4 weeks total production time with the sonnet of our choice to create an experimental film that was no longer than 5 minutes. We had a variety of workshops at the start of the unit, covering topics such as camera movements, composition, montage, and haiku adaptation. The workshops were extremely beneficial because I learned a variety of things that helped me during the four-week production period. The montage workshop and the haiku adaptation were the ones that helped me the most. We were shown various types of montages during the montage workshop, including metric montages, rhythmic montages, tonal montages, intellectual montages, and over-tonal montages. During the montage workshop, we were shown La Jetée, a 1962 film made entirely of 35 mm film still images. The film's idea and process have inspired me and my thought process throughout...

Project Research

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Mood boards  When studying William Wordsworth's composition on Westminster Bridge, I decided to concentrate on two lines of the people, one of which is "The beauty of the morning; silent, bare." For this part, I've decided to take it literally and capture the sunrise of a beautiful morning, but I'm still undecided about the location I'd like to use for my shoot; however, the images above are what I was thinking of going for. I had the idea of the sun and the moon meeting in some way to tie the two very different ideas together. One way the two could be linked is through a flickering light, the idea of a lightbulb flickering and exploding or shutting off, and the entire mood of the adaptation changing and turning into a type of horror. The second line that I wanted to highlight was "The very houses seem asleep," since it reminded me of abandoned houses, which have a horror connotation. The images above are some of the shoot concepts I was considering ...

Development

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When I pitched my idea to Cat at the start of the unit, it was still a mess and I didn't have a solid plan. My original plan was to do a cinematic day shoot for the first half of the video, with the sun flickering and shutting off as a transition, and abandoned houses for the second half. The beach and the forest alongside abandoned houses were the locations I had in mind for the second half of the video during the shoot. This was still a very rough idea in my development process, and it wasn't a particularly good one. As I presented the concept to Kat, she seemed to like it, but there was some fine-tuning that needed to be done. Following the pitch, Kat advised me on the locations and types of shots that would work well in the shoot. We decided that rather than having several off locations such as the beatch and the forest, I should focus on just one type of location, which was the forest, and as a result, I chose to shoot in the Cobham area, which has large woods surrounding ...

Edited outcomes from workshop exercises

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  one of the first workshops in the fiction adaptation unit was the haiku interpretation. in this workshop, the whole class got a selection of 3 different haikus with 3 lines and had 2 hours to interpret them in the way we see or like using stock footage and music that we can find online. out of the 3 haikus I have decided to go with one by Kobayashi Issa which says;  The wren  Earns his living  Noiselesly I have chosen this haiku as it was the one that appealed to me the most and the one that had the most possible and different genres that could be pulled from those 3 lines. however, I have decided to focus on the word noiselessly. after around 3o minutes of searching for clips, I have finally decided to do the piece of animals and focus on the idea of noiselessly, how certain animals spend their entire lives trying to avoid conflict and live their lives in pieces trying to avoid most other animals. however it was quite hard to find good stock footage of lone animal...

Production Notes

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    TV Production | Filming Risk Assessment (COVID-19 Compliant)   P r o d u c t i o n  Title ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………  The contents of this risk assessment must be communicated to all students, staff, contractors, actors and persons involved. UCA has the right to terminate a production if we do not feel that satisfactory safety measures are in place.   Campus:  The Maidstone Studios Course: BA(Hons) TV Production Unit Year: 2 Group : Dov Student Producer Name & Contact Details ( Email & Mobile): Dovydas Linkus 1809222@students.uca.ac.uk   Student COVID-19 Supervisor Name & Contact Number:  Dovydas Linkus 1809222@students.uca.ac.uk   Unit Leader(s) :  Mike Rymer  Proposed date(s) and times(s)   Shooting Dates:   1.  2/12/21 Shooting Times (Start to End)   1.  6am-3pm Pack down times (no...