FMP, Evaluation
How did it go? to be honest I don’t know. Since the brief day I knew I wanted to do something with a meaning, something that would make people think, with a important message, like a campaign. The idea of which message use took a while to arrive, but then I found the WWF campaign that says thath the nature is not recycleble which I think is a very important message and it is also something for which everyone can do something about, this Video is a good example of that (apolagize for the video on Facebook, I didn’t find it somewhere else).
Speaking with a friend of mine about my project, explaining him my idea of people, kids, familis looking at rycicled animals, he gave me the idea of use carton, paper animals. I really like it. (Thinking about it now I could have use different materials shrivelled up, it could be an idea for another project).
As soon as I came back from Switzerland after Easter, I’ve been to the Bristol Zoo to filming with Jack (he’s very good with cameras, he really helped me, but I filmed my stuff by myself under his supervision). I wasn’t sure about what I wanted exactly and I had no idea of how the zoo looked like, so I got as much footage as possible. Once back at uni I looked at the footage to devcide what to use and how to use it. The aquarium shot was the best, empty and dark, it already had its own meaning. I worked on it.
Got the idea, drown the story board, found the kids, booked the studio, filmed. Filming with kids is never easy, and if the kids are your toutors and you film during the weekd close to beadtime, is less easy. We forgot few shot, we forgot few details, we tried to make it as quick as possible and it had its consequence. I work on what I had.
This has been my second green screen project, the first one wasn’t too bad, but compared to this it was less work. I had a lot of problem with keying out, but not becuase the footage was very bad (except that was a bit dark, that we use a blue light and that the end of the dolly out wasn’t on focous, it was good) but beacuase I’ve very very very slow, I need much more practice on it, I just couldn’t make it look right (Chris keying it out in 5 mins), in the end I did it, but it took me nealy one day for each shot. Once I keying out the green compositing wasnt to difficult as I just wanted the talent in front of the aquarium.
I did a last minute editing with the few shot I did, not proud of it at all, but it is not too bad for the short time I had left.
As like for my last works, my flat mate Simon James wrote the music for this project, I asked him something with piano that reminds the ocean, and not too happy.
The final work is... ok. I’m not happy with it, it’s nothing of what I wanted, but maybe is going to make people think a little bit anyway. I see this project like a very short and previous version of my next work on which I plan to work during the summer.
Has been a very full year. There are a lot of think I want to learn and improve during the summer, I’ll come back in September full of energy, motivation and milions of new ideas.
Nice summer break to everyone!!!
PS. I hated the computer at uni on which every software is no updated, I had to rendering my work on my computer becuase I couldn’t open it on an iMac. It is only a 30 second video with 3 different shots, but after 3h30 it still need 2h40, its gonna be hand in very very very very late. I couldn’t ask to finish my first year in a better way.












