It was interesting to see how our film progressed. During the shoot all three of us contributed to the how the shot was to look. As director I feel I took on the leading role in what shot we wanted to produce. Fiona followed directions very well in terms of set design and Maz pointed out each flaw when I tried to achieve something to ambitious.

During the edit the bulk of the picture edit was done my Maz and Fiona and I contributed constructive criticism at various stages. after the first rough edit we realised how much we wanted to develop the idea and went to re-shoot 2 scenes for example some of the fountain and water shots. During the first shoot my hand and foot had got in the way on one of two of the shots. this was on one hand very annoying but then again also gave us the opportunity to see the strengths and weaknesses of the shots we had got b4 re-shooting.

One very big problem we found with shooting was the last scene, which we filmed using 4 SLR cameras. We knew it had to be planned properly and only had one shot at what we were trying to achieve, however after looking back at the footage it turned out only 1 of the cameras came out with the right camera shot the others for some inexplicable reason came out to dark. This was very disappointing as we had planned to have the shots taken from 4 different angles and have a quick repetitive edit designed to shock the audience. I feel this led to one of our weaknesses of the film and that the film did not have the desired impact we had originally aspired to create.

Equipment and Materials

Equipment Used::

- Nikon SLR Camera D3100 for both filming and the individual shots
- 3 Tripods
- Set of 3 Dedo Lights, with coloured filters,
Lenses - - 16mm
               - 24mm Tilt Shift
               - 180mm

Props::

- The two characters that feature in the film... The two Teapots
- thread that assisted us to mobilise the two teapots.

We set up a mock studio using a set of Dedo lights and a white sheet. Through using different filters on the lights we could create a soft glow and the use of red light indicated how the feeling of love can be shown through light

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ8aWGT6KaU

Development of Idea and Research

With all this in mind of giving inanimate objects life, we looked at using stop-animation one definition found when we googled it is:

“Stop motion (also known as stop frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence.”

This idea formed the basis of my experimental film, I looked at film makers who used still images to make experimental film but also looked at the stop motion side of experimental film.

Whilst looking Maz and I found a a incedible short film inserted below which was up of 35,000 photos, to create one short flawlessly smooth animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ8aWGT6KaU