Work Tara Work

Once our group had decided upon the OCD/compulsive subject for our short film, we got down to planning.

Honestly alot of it was spur of the moment, for over a week we'd been discussing and half planning our previous idea and now that was out of the window we was actually getting down and doing stuff!

We looked at videos on youtube abit more and went on www.answers.yahoo.com and looked to see if anyone had strange compulsions or weird behaviour; and then compared one anothers strange behaviours. But overall, the sketchbook idea took form, and then Requiem For a Dream was brough up (as always is when Callum is present) and the whole notion of repition and split screen was brought to the table.  So yeah, we all agreed that split screen closeups and quick editing and repitition would do well in depicting the mindset of a harsh workaholic determined to do well in her sketchbook >=]

Subsequently, the following close-up shots and soon to be edited into split screen in final cut pro are:

• Masking tape being pulled out from the roll, making the weird tapey sticky noise that tape makes
  
• The tip of pencil lead snapping against Tara's work
• Pencil bodies being snapped in frustration because of the snapping lead, showing Tara's anger and crazy obsession to not let anything stand in the way of getting her work done.
• Masking tape being ripped by Tara's teeth. hehe
• Tara drinking sprite!

But yeah back to planning. We briefly sketeched out a rough storyboard and decided on different shot types we could use and booked the broadcast camera out for after school on wednesday, and Tara arranged for us to film in Mr Ward's room! THE FILMING DATE WAS SET!

We met afterskool in the media department and unleashed the broadcast camera from Gerry's office aswell as it's big tripod and made our way over to art~ but before leaving i grabbed a pencil sharpener and some coloured pins from Ms Moore's room. I dunno why LOL i just thought it could add to the mise-en-scene in which we would be filming our crazy work obsessed Tara. 
Once there we arranged the tables and set up our mise-en-scene. Placed alot of cut up magazines and paper about the big table, aswell as a big guillotine on the end of it. Tara's camera was slightly off centre on the table, pencil sharpenings were thrown around abit to emphasize her messiness, and a metal ruler was chucked in there to look nice. Tara's sketchbook was placed infront of her and two of her big note pads were also on the table, and a few pens, pencils, pins, pencil sharpener, Tara's phone and drink and other various objects were placed around the setting. Now we were ready to film D= but but but we didn't have a title for it, and i think it was at this point or earlier on that "Work Tara Work" was suggested as a joke but we thought it'd be funny, and we could add it in with the repition and such. So our short film was to be christened: WORK TARA WORK.

But yeah lol. We got down t it and filmed, placing the title of our film in blue upon a piece of masking tape on the front of Tara's sketchbooks, and we got down to filming! Lots of shots of the same thing were donw but from various angles blah blah blah. A few Point Of View shots whilst tara worked frantically, a pan of her and her surroundings on the desk from different directions and angles, a low angle shot of tara using the guillotine whilst a post-it note saying "DO NOT STOP" was in the shot, and various others but i can't really remember all the way back to wednesday? Oh yeah and we did some shot with tara's phone going off and callum found out some freaky shit on the broadcast camera and could change the focus/depth of field and we fiddled around with that and the filters a bit ^__^

That was it! our first bit of filming done as it got to half six and Mr Ward needed to lock up so we cleared up our mess and went home. Then the next day we uploaded it onto the macs and attempted to do some editing on final cut pro, but was confusing; so Callum uploaded it onto I-Movie (i think?) and nothing more was to be done that day! because thursdays are everyones full day and they SUCK, and the alturnertive prize was on that day so we just wanted to relax in school until it was time for that.

So on friday (today) me, Tara and George decided to go back and get some more shots and stuff, Callum needed to go home so we allowed him to be exempt from the filming as George hadn't had a go at filming yet and callum just lurvesss to edit so we could just leave him to that. We tried to re-create the messiness on the table as much as we could but we were mainly going back to film the close-up shots that were mentioned way back up there ^^^^^^^

We filmed those, which was funny and tara laughed whilst we filmed her drinking sprite, and Jamie was in the room doing photography work so he put stuff on youtube to amuse us, fun fun fun. Filming was fun today! We Messed around yet still got work done so WE R HAPPEH. We took some shots of us filming with Tara's camera and if she uploads them onto her blog then i shall steal them and place them here ;D

Overall i think we have the majority of our footage filmed and uploaded, all the different clips have been named and we just need to get underway with the editing process and stuff. But anyway, i'm actually well getting into this blogging thing and it's more fun that i thought it would be so im happy =D.  I've come to the conclusion that im pretty indecisive about my layouts/template so at the moment theres a JUNO one? if there isn't one there and you're reading this then it just proves the point that i just mentioned.  As i've done with my past two blogs im gonna leave you with some youtube video's, and i have to say if you've read all of this then thanks :D this is way better to document our process of making our short film than sketchbooks and stuff we did in media last year.

RUN LOLA RUN:
Seeing as the title of our film is somewhat a rip-off of "Run Lola Run" i thought it fair to post a video or the trailer from it.




REQUIEM FOR A DREAM:
Our fast editing that we hope to have and also the split-screen that we wanna add in is inspired by the editing in Requiem For a Dream. Something kind of like this:




So there we are, all filmed and ready to go! Anything else that goes into what we do i'll probably post it on here. This week's been so so long and i'm lookin forward to going to bed :)
ciao xx