Montage Research

I started the research with a location recce in Sheffield City centre to find filming locations that are suitable and decided that the Moor is the best location for the crowds of people as on a Saturday afternoon its the busiest place in the city. I will film the newspaper scene on the tram as it comes out of the tunnel after the university stop as I feel it will make the image more interesting. I will film extra city life shots from the university tram stop because its busy there and I think it portrays city life quite well. the slow motion glass breaking will be in Hillsborough College TV studio as a high speed camera is needed and that has to stay in the building. The Broken objects shots will be shot at my house on my patio as its a controlled environment where I can safely break objects. The Glass photography ball will be shot in my house because its a readily available controlled environment to film in and has the hard floor I require to do the shot. The shot looking through the lens will be behind The train station because its a quite urban aria overlooking the city and I think it will look really nice.

For the Slow motion shots I needed a camera that could record at a high frame rate so I asked my lecturer what cameras the college had and I researched there specs to find there maximum frame rate. I ended up using the Sony FS700 because it had the highest frame rate out of the cameras available. I found the frame rate on the Sony website on this page – https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-NEXFS700UK/ .

For the drone shots I need to make sure were allowed to fly the drone in the aria so I checked on this website – http://www.noflydrones.co.uk/ to make sure if I would be filming/flying near or in any no fly zone arias and I wont be so its fine.

Montage pre-production

My montage will be based around the theme of distortion. the ultimate goal of the film is to convey the feeling of distortion through the sounds picture and editing techniques.

I decided that the film will be based around the idea of distorted reality and how normal life is never as it seems because of the mask that people put up to hide there true selves from the world. This idea will be backed up with images of physical distortion of light and objects and at the start an opening drone shot of the raw countryside with a distorting transition to night time in the city.

The kind of shots that I want are going include;

Distortion of light:

Lenses

glass photography ball

physical distortion:

Broken glass (high frame rate)

broken objects

Distorted reality:

Crowds of people

People reading newspapers

city life

 

For the audio I decided I’m not going to have music but instead sounds. I’m going to record sounds of the city and I’ll use stock sounds of crackling and other sounds that will reinforce the sense of distortion.

I went on a location recce in Sheffield City centre to find filming locations that are suitable and decided that the Moor is the best location for the crowds of people as on a satrurday afternoon its the busiest place in the city. I will film the newspaper scene on the tram as it comes out of the tunnel after the university stop as I feel it will make the image more interesting. I will film extra city life shots from the university tram stop because its busy there and I think it portrays city life quite well. the slow motion glass breaking will be in Hillsborough College TV studio as a high speed camera is needed and that has to stay in the building. The Broken objects shots will be shot at my house on my patio as its a controlled environment where I can safely break objects. The Glass photography ball will be shot in my house because its a readily available controlled environment to film in and has the hard floor I require to do the shot. The shot looking through the lens will be behind The train station because its a quite urban aria overlooking the city and I think it will look really nice.

 

The risk assessment’s for the production;

Proposal distortion

Risk Assessment drone 1

Risk Assessment drone 2

Risk Assessment Glass breaking

Risk Assessment on tram

Risk Assessment tram stop

 

The story boards for The film;

Montage Proposal

Proposal for FMP