trees are people too

Script has been revised – the closer we get to shooting, the more I am realising how tight our time will be – 90 seconds is nothing, and I hadn’t accounted for placing a title screen and credits at either end. Based on that, we decided to keep our particular script sections down to about two sentences. We also discussed using sound effects to help set the mood – a child laughing for when our character was ten years old, perhaps city noises for when she is thirty and lives in the city. On Wednesday we are going to try and capture some footage, so we are coming prepared with our script and storyboards, and so…. voila! It seems a little meaningless here, but hopefully in its entirity will flow well…

“When I was thirty I moved to the city and lived in a street of bricks and concrete, where nobody spoke to anybody else. One day, someone left their bike in my street, and never returned to collect it. It sat there for months, rusting sadly, until one day it was collected by the garbage men.”

The focus of the story is on the bike, so after using a mid-shot to establish the street, I plan to slowly pan down the street before the camera comes to rest on the bike. It will only be two or three shots in total, although there may also be a lead in and lead out shot – from and to the streets before and after. Here are my planned shots (may need reconsidering after seeing them so small):

These will be even more tightly framed in the final shooting (i.e. get even closer to the bike) and I may stick to just one wideshot, as they are the trickiest on the small screen. I was surprised also to find that after originally being pretty against just using stills, I am now leaning more and more towards it – I think with the use of narration, just fading between these shots could be quite affective. I am not sure if movement in the frame will add to the story (not much action is going on anyway). I will push for this, but it will depend on the overall style of the entire piece also. I’ll let you know after recording on Wednesday.

Oh, and check out my backdrop – it’s Melbourne!! That’s probably about the coolest thing I’ve done thus far. Ha.