Moving Image - Jane
Moving Image
Our first practical task was to shoot a short piece within one afternoon based upon a section of the script from David Fincher's 1999 film 'Fight Club'.
I acquired the role of Director of Photography therefor it would be my task to construct the shots we would take during the production of our film. In short, it is the role of cinematographer and i would be using the storyboard and shot list as a guide.
Script
Day Of Shoot
The day of the shoot was upon us quickly as we had only a week from the task launch to when we would film. We had been unsuccessful in acquiring any actors and everyone was reluctant in filling in as an actor in the roles of Jack and Tyler so i decided to take one for the team and played both roles. Even though it compromised my position as director of photography i was still able to direct most of the shots in the production from the position of cast member guiding the crew where the camera should be positioned and framed. I felt that my role directing photography was made more important as the director was not able to make it to the actual shoot, so i interpreted her vision through the storyboard whilst relaying it to the crew whilst acting at the same time.
Changes
Due to only having one actor playing two roles we had to make sure to capture two long takes of both characters so that it could play alongside one another as it was brought up by Tom that certain shots might become difficult to use when it came to editing if we were to incorporate essentially the same person twice.
This is the piece that we produced.
SHOTS
At the start of the film the camera zooms into the bomb, its a shot that we had previously planned in order to heighten the tensity of the rest of the production.
EXTREME CLOSE-UP
Another shot that we had previously ran with was this close-up of the main protagonist Jack.
It is featured in order to show the emotion on his face at the prospect of the bomb of which he sets out to disarm.
CLOSE-UP
From the moment antagonist Tyler enters the frame we are somewhat limited in shots featuring the two characters as they are played by the same actor meaning they have to be filmed at separate times.
The camera is positioned steady in order for us to play each clip alongside each other seamlessly as to appear that both subjects are actually standing next to one another.
2-SHOT
Upon reflection I feel that more planning could go into defining each role within production, although I feel that given our limitations within shooting and the time given, what we produced wasn't too unsatisfactory.
Task 2
After being set our introduction task of The Fight Club production. We would be given the task of actually developing a full treatment for a drama written by Samuel Thornhill named Clay.
The script we were given detailed a story of two men who worked at a mortuary, one considerably older than the other by the sounds of it. Alan is a older character who has worked at the mortuary for 25 years has a wife and kids, we see him increasingly becoming annoyed at the prospect of his colleague Francis who doesn't appear to be one for professionalism. Francis is characterised as someone who is away with the fairies and unorganised as he doesn't turn up on time for work and he doesn't appear to pay attention to conversation too well, however later on in the script it is revealed as to why this may be the case. The narrative heats up with a shocking discovery from Francis whilst checking over a dead body at the mortuary. Francis doesn't tell Alan exactly what is going on which comes back to get him at the conclusion of the drama.
TREATMENT
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
Our first practical task was to shoot a short piece within one afternoon based upon a section of the script from David Fincher's 1999 film 'Fight Club'.
I acquired the role of Director of Photography therefor it would be my task to construct the shots we would take during the production of our film. In short, it is the role of cinematographer and i would be using the storyboard and shot list as a guide.
Script
Day Of Shoot
The day of the shoot was upon us quickly as we had only a week from the task launch to when we would film. We had been unsuccessful in acquiring any actors and everyone was reluctant in filling in as an actor in the roles of Jack and Tyler so i decided to take one for the team and played both roles. Even though it compromised my position as director of photography i was still able to direct most of the shots in the production from the position of cast member guiding the crew where the camera should be positioned and framed. I felt that my role directing photography was made more important as the director was not able to make it to the actual shoot, so i interpreted her vision through the storyboard whilst relaying it to the crew whilst acting at the same time.
Changes
Due to only having one actor playing two roles we had to make sure to capture two long takes of both characters so that it could play alongside one another as it was brought up by Tom that certain shots might become difficult to use when it came to editing if we were to incorporate essentially the same person twice.
This is the piece that we produced.
SHOTS
EXTREME CLOSE-UP
It is featured in order to show the emotion on his face at the prospect of the bomb of which he sets out to disarm.
CLOSE-UP
The camera is positioned steady in order for us to play each clip alongside each other seamlessly as to appear that both subjects are actually standing next to one another.
2-SHOT
Reflection
Upon reflection I feel that more planning could go into defining each role within production, although I feel that given our limitations within shooting and the time given, what we produced wasn't too unsatisfactory.
Task 2
After being set our introduction task of The Fight Club production. We would be given the task of actually developing a full treatment for a drama written by Samuel Thornhill named Clay.
The script we were given detailed a story of two men who worked at a mortuary, one considerably older than the other by the sounds of it. Alan is a older character who has worked at the mortuary for 25 years has a wife and kids, we see him increasingly becoming annoyed at the prospect of his colleague Francis who doesn't appear to be one for professionalism. Francis is characterised as someone who is away with the fairies and unorganised as he doesn't turn up on time for work and he doesn't appear to pay attention to conversation too well, however later on in the script it is revealed as to why this may be the case. The narrative heats up with a shocking discovery from Francis whilst checking over a dead body at the mortuary. Francis doesn't tell Alan exactly what is going on which comes back to get him at the conclusion of the drama.
TREATMENT
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
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