Progress (Jamie)

The actual making the film part of our project is now completed as we have successfully edited our product into what i believe to be a good quality film. Having gained much experience in the editing suite on last years project, we were able to jump straight in and get straight down to turning our raw footage into some structure. The fact that we had a lot more footage than we needed to fill the 5 minutes was of massive help to us as we were able to whittle it all down and structure it with a great amount of choice. The work we did on Garageband was both a lot of fun and very productive as sound was a quietly important part of our film.

• Poster ideas (I have done a couple of draft ideas that i need to get uploaded)

• Review: I have decided to take responsability for the review part of our ancillary task as it is something I am quite interested in doing. I have researched into the magazine Little White Lies, looking at the style in which films are reviewed on it. A couple of things I have noticed

Update (Will Price)

I realise the lack of time that either of us have been spending on this blog or the lack of time that has gone towards thinking about it and i for one apologise, however contrary to popular beleif we have more than one subject in the works at the moment and i have been bogged down by Communication and Culture whilst doing this, so i beg for your forgiveness. The following is an update on what we have accomplished so far since the last post.

Filming
We have finished the filming and we managed to get it done about a day before the rushes were supposed to be in, it would have been finished earlier however we had a few complications that slowed us down slightly. One of which was corpsing, as the main character in this film I as you well know have to walk down to the kitchen to find one of my fellow partiers draped over a table fast asleep with their arse hanging out, in this instance we cast a friend of mine named Verity Bridger to play 'The Arse' someone who i know rather well, so it was ever so slightly difficult to actually keep a straight face, it is of course one of the longest shots that doesn't have any cuts in it within the entire film, so not laughing at the fact that a very awake Verity had her arse hanging out ready for me to draw on will go down as an interesting moment in my life.

A second thing that slowed us down would be the weather, the heavens decided to open up onto the house we were using and even drawing the curtain failed to block out the noise of the rain hammering against the windows and down on the roof, thus as it would no doubt be a bit strange for it to suddenly piss it down in between the main character going in and out of the bathroom we decided to take a break and get all the other scenes ready whilst having a beer.

The third and final point however was rather uniquely, animals, as my sister has 2 cats, neither of which had seemed to grasp the fact that walking through shot meowing for food would be ever so slightly hinder-some in the grand scheme of things, we gave them both food but they decided to wander round the locations of the house we were currently shooting in instead, so we ended up locking them in a room upstairs, where they made so much noise that the camera picked it up, so we gave them even more food and catnip and finally they shut up. Thats right. We drugged cats. What of it?

Editing

Has also been accomplished and went off with only one single hitch when the fiootage needed to be converted twice for Garageband as it hadnt done it properly the first time which left me staring at a prgress bar on a Mac for most of it which forces you to try and put your life into perspective while you wait simply because you have nothing else to do. My brain was exploding by the end of it but it was finished about one day before the deadline which i think is perfect timing considering the amount of fiddling with focus and saturation i had to do to get an adequate flashback effect that i actually liked and didnt just look like looking through the eyes of someone who had misplaced their glasses but still had to watch the end of Cessamy Street with his son.

Poster

I have taken on the task of doing the poster and Jamie has taken the duty of doing the review, i'm currently photoshopping like mad and trying

My Chip In For Poster Pitches (Will Price)

Well, i confess to not paying much attention to the blog as of late but this would probably be because, as hard as it may be to believe, i have other subjects as well which currently are insisting on being rather time consuming. Never the less, i have but 2 idea's for possible posters for our little short film.

As you can plainly see from my in-depth labelling, the imagery is centred around the glass of beer which with some photoshopping has the faded face of the main character in the glass. This would be fairly suitable and symbolic as the film is after all based on a drunken teenage party, coupled with the idea of the films name 'Early Mourning' carrying very heavy overtones of death, which in the poster could quite easily fit in with the idea of 'drowning your sorrows'.

The second of my ideas may not look like much, but my idea is rather hard to draw, i am to make the main character himself blurred whilst keeping the rest of the room completely unaltered. This is aimed to recreate the idea of the drunk person being all fuzzy and incoherant but the rest of the world resolutely stays the same.