Welcome back! This week we made a lot of headway in our film journey. We started off in class beginning to settle down and decide on our storyline, getting more serious about our ideas. We were all on the same page with ditching most of the comedic tones we had been thinking of, and really putting our all into the aesthetic and story of the film as we are all determined to do really well in this task
Originally we had planned to shoot our film at the abandoned Wangi Power Station and spent a lot of our time this week working on ways that we could make that possible, such as contacting the council, chatting with our tutor, attempting to contact the owners of the building/land and talking to the head of the course about it, however after no response from the owners, we moved on to finding a new setting for our film so as to avoid wasting any time. So to do this, we found a time on Thursday that we were all free, met up at Uni and went on a group road trip to scout out some locations. We looked around Stockton and at the old BHP site, however we couldn't find anywhere that wasn't private property and fenced off. Lastly we drove to King Edward Park and looked around for the old Tunnels and Bunkers that still existed... and we struck GOLD! We found the perfect location for our film that still matched the aesthetic we hoped to achieve at Wangi. We took videos and photos of our new location and began considering lighting, shots, and characters for our story.
Lastly, we zoomed to discuss the risks that we may face with shooting in our newly determined location in order to complete our risk assessment together which we submitted. We considered driving to our location, being close to the road, filming close to the cliff, lighting, uneven ground, broken glass, and nearby neighbours. After identifying these obstacles, we put steps in place to minimise and avoid these risks at all times to make sure all of us are safe and every hazard is lessened as much as possible.
Overall, this week has been really productive and I'm looking forward to nailing down a story plot and gathering all the equipment we will need for shooting in the next week to turn our amazing ideas into a reality!
See you next week Goldfishes!
