Proposal for portrait of a place

Proposal


Project title: ‘Portrait of a place’


Aim of the project:


To plan and produce in pairs, a silent, 3 minute piece shot in the peak district.
The piece must incorporate the use of the natural environment and may include characters or individuals contained with in that area.
The portrayal of the landscape should be made evident in the piece, ‘an exploration of a physical place’ to quote the brief and may be Documentary, drama or Experimental in genre.

We have chosen to create an experimental piece, focusing on the beauty of nature to do the hard work for us.
Combining natural wonder with interesting imagery and angles and an editing style of avant-garde descent, we hope to create a short captivating piece, much like that of a music video or footage used whilst Vjing.
We are also going to use natural light to the best of our ability, with shafts breaking through the leaves and high lighting minor details.

Obviously, the absence of music will make it difficult to hold the attention of the audience, so we are planning on using the lack of rhythm to help create an off beat, erratic pacing of editing which will hopefully keep the audiences eyes glued to the screen.


Research:


For Research for the piece have looked to several sources, the first being of course our own imaginations.
After discussing different ideas we both found we had very similar expectations for what we were looking for.


We also looked online at several images of Edale to try and grasp an idea of what the location would be like (unfortunately, we didn’t have time to visit before hand) but this has proved helpful in the way we now a slight idea of the type of terrain we can expect to come across and how it will limit our capabilities of filming.
After deciding we wanted to make a heavily nature inspired, experimental piece, we trawled through vimeo to find similar productions.
You can find these under the research section of our blog, along with several images of Edale.

Technology and format:

Were going to be shooting the film using a Canon XM2, on DV SP format, captured on tape.
Once the footage is captured we will use final cut pro to edit and then put the film on two DVD’s, one playable DVD made in DVD studio pro and the other with a high quality, quick time file.



Crew:

The crew consists of me and Zach and whilst we’ve chosen to share most job roles, he will be the more dominant cinematographer, whilst take care of the majority of editing.