Idea development. (early starboard)

 Today we met up as group to further develop our idea of Barnaby the Rabbit. We had a quite a bit to discus before Thursday lesson where we had to pitch our idea and present storyboards. Paul had already start to put together rough storyboards.

 

Although very rough the storyboards started to bring the idea to life. The made a couple of changes to the storyboard a decided to make the dinner scene into another sequence shot. I wanted quite an adventurous Sequence shot like  in Gus Van Sant Elephant.  Where the camera follows one of the characters as they move through an area.

After our Grindaleford recce we knew how difficult it was going to film that shot without a steadycam. We where still going to try but thought we should have a back up plan just in case this shot didn’t work. We also added a lighting change in the dinner scene, as the women walks into the room we would use strobe lighting to make the scene a little abstract and intense as the bunny rabbit flips out. As well as having the simple “light switch” lighting change,  the strobe lighting would be quite a nice effect and fits into that abstract film we are trying to create. 

Grindleford Recce (Week 5)

Today was the Grindleford Recce and was the first I had seen the rest of the group since Paul came up with the idea, as a group we all liked the idea and saw the potential with the film. On the train journey to Grindleford we looked at the brief and discussed how we could incorporate all the elements within our film.

Colour

• As a group we decided that we wanted the Grindleford shots to be very rich in colour, lots of greens then contrasted that with the dark gray shots of the city.

• Rabbits can only see colour in the spectrum of red, blue, and green.

• The women would wear a red coat so the rabbit could see her in the POV shots.

Lighting change

• As the women walks down stairs turning on the light as enters the basement

• Strobe effect when the rabbit breaks free from his cage and attacks the women.

POV

•  Rabbits point of view

• Women’s point of view

Sequence shot

Once in Grindleford we fond a great place where our sequence shot could take place. As the rabbit is sat down on the rock watching T.V we could see the women approaching in the distance coming in and out of Frame, each time she enters the frame she gets closer and closer to the rabbit.  The rabbit is aware that something’s wrong but by then its too late he has already been captured.  
 The bridge and river are great focal point, unfortunately the weather wasn't great and made everything look a little grey and dull a far cry away from the rich vibrant greens we where expecting. 

Once we found the perfect location for our sequence shot we spent some time walking through the scene and what could potential happen. Paul played the role of the rabbit while Adam was the women. 

I didn't want the shot to be static, i wanted the the camera to follow the old women as she gets closer but knew how difficult this would be without a steady cam. We then walked through the shot as if the camera would be static in-front  of the rabbit. 


I found the Grindleford Recce really useful as it helped me visualise the sequence shot but also could discuss the other elements as well. 

Barnaby the Rabbit

Today Paul proposed an idea about a rabbit called Barnaby the rabbit.

When I read through the concept I really liked the idea and thought it could work really well as a dark comedy and we could incorporate all the parameters of the brief in quite an interesting way.   My only problem was that we wanted to stay away from the stalker film and this idea/concept could potential fall into that type of film.