FILMING

I'm going to film in college using the following:

• Camera digital X1
• Camera dv X1
• Tape X2
• Tripod X2
• Studio lights X2
• White paper roll (for backdrop and table) X1
• White paper origami squares X20
• Green paint X1
• Aquapax carton sprayed white X1
• Aquapax carton X1

I set up white paper taped high on a white board and folding over 2 tables. The studio lights pointed to the paper. One tripod over the top of me sitting at the table and one on a tripod on wheels behind me (I have come to the conclusion that moving round the back of me will be the best way of switching the paper to the white Aquapax). One of the lights blew up half way through filming - so this is one major problem!

I have edited the footage to be very fast (sped up by nearly 400%) and with different cuts (Not what I originally thought, it just works so much better - Its to slow and boring the way I originally intended)

I have changed the music to a piano piece, very delicate and pretty.

Here is the cut I showed to Neil in Crit...

Before I showed it to him I already didn't like it. I really like my idea but it just hasn't turned out how I imagined at all...

My feedback to myself from this cut:

• Too dark
• Colours need to be crisper/whiter
• Paper origami needs to be the same as the backdrop
• Paint drops need to be a lot brighter to make masking easier
• I don't like the angle of the hands - they need to be more head on
• My sleeve keeps moving up and down!
• Needs to be choppier - More close ups etc

Neil and Sarah still really like my idea and they kind of like the way it looked but suggested some changes:

• Change Aquapax logo to full one
• Change capital letters to lowercase
• Cut down to nearer 30 seconds
• Make the origami clearer of what it is so they look like i'm making completely different things
• Maybe leave the origami I leave to one side on screen, rather than take it off
• Speed the pan round my back up a lot faster
• Maybe be wearing Aquapax colours (I didn't do this in the first place as I wasn't going to be in it on the day!)
• Make all the colour in the different cuts similar - its too jumpy at the moment.

I am really disappointed with my video so far. I still really like my idea but it's just not looking how I want it too. I think I'm going to have to take this as a practice and shoot again. I was going to maybe just shoot parts again (like close ups of fingers creasing paper etc) but realistically to make me happy with it I think I need to do it all again... I have learnt a lot from filming this first version which will help me so much to perfect it.

So... I am going to borrow the digital camera from college and over half term film the whole thing again. What I am going to do differently:

• Cut the origami squares from the same paper as the backdrop
• Wear a pale blue dress
• Buy some daylight blue lightbulbs and arrange as many house lamps as possible around me - PERFECT the lighting before any filming!
• Shoot the scene of making origami 2 or 3 times from different angles, to make editing the cuts faster and choppier
• Use a brighter paint for pouring onto the white Aquapax (Super bright orange?)
• Make sure the camera is picking up the paint without so many shadows
• Take a still of an Aquapax in the same scene as the White Aquapax on the exact same spot (to mask the paint to packaging)