Finished

I finished editing, finished it, it has been difficult but fun at the same time.
I watched a lot of wild life documentaries to inspire my editing process, and again I watched a lot of Ingmar Bergman films to keep me going.
I'm not completely satisfied with it, there are a lot of errors:
* Aspect ratio not consistent
* sound not consistent
* color correction
* sound
But overall I think Its good, we worked hard together and I really appreciate everybody who contributed, I am very grateful for your help and support.
I will post the video as soon as I can .

Deadline HElp!!!1

Its 2 days to handing in the project, circumstances has made editing difficult, but I managed to do my best. Because the shots wasn't following the construction of the storyboard, the editing wasn't consistent. I have tried to trim it down to 7 minutes, its about quality not quantity.
Sound again very hard, ambulances talking children in many scenes a lot of fixing to do.
Bare in mind to minimize the editing time and make it look perfect try to plan it in Pre -Production, it will benefit you in Post production.

I am contemplating if I should use color or black and white?
The color enhances the feeling of Documentary Wild life but the black and white will add the Nordic medieval feeling to it.

Deadline HElp!!!1

Monday 14 2009

Chris The Raccoon couldn't come so I had to ask my brother to cover him, I don't know if you notice the difference, but it was quite close.

All of the free runners was nice enough to do an extra day because we didn't shoot on Saturday.
It was cold hand everybody was tired, but we had to.

Artistically I realized that I cant dictate the shots and make them as cinematic as I wanted to due to the fact that we couldn't use the locations that we planned to, some of the moves that the contributors planned failed due to the weather conditions.
I watched "The Silence" yesterday and I got very inspired with the Hitchcock influence that Ingmar Bergman used in his shots.
I kind of see Stanley Kubricks "The Shining" Hotel shots are very similar to the shots in "The silence", you see the boy and the painting, and the shots when he is walking in the hallway.

Editing

I have managed to get a hold of my friends pc to edit on, just for the moment, I will finish it before I leave Sweden. :0

Pre Production

I have forgotten to post my Pre production files, sketches and storyboards. This is

The sketches for my characters face paint and the hats that I made them.

I have chosen to call them Bradagascar animals, its hard to really make out what they are but I was aiming for a concrete jungle medieval style of a panda/bear/ monkey, lion /tiger and the Raccoon / Skunk. They have different styled to their free running.

Tuff buff puff

What can I say, my PC broke down and Premier Pro doesnt work on my pc, so I am paniced, sweating and trying to fix it. 15 is just around the corner. So Im praying and trying to sort it out. I have been watching some of Ingmar BErgmans movies over and over again. To get some more inspioration.
Oh forgot I checked the making of the Thriller, have seen it before but this time I felt more inspired.
But hopefully I will sort it out as soon as I can untill I fix it, some more
"Wild Strawberries". HihihihHope you had a nice X -mas , next year will be wicked hehehe/

Creativity

Wednesday the 12 December
Courage called me in the morning we were suppose to meet at 9 in the morning to shoot with Kwame the other runner. He told me that he can’t make it., all my thoughts started to break me down slowly, will I make this, will this turn out the way I want to, or not? Ingmar Bergman always said:
“I always tell myself that this is my last film and that’s why I make it perfect.”

But then I have to face it, I’m a student with pretty good friends that participate in this to help me, I’m doing this myself with helping friends, so I can embrace another day, plan some more and do my best on Sunday.
Later during the day I was thinking of the word creative, I believe everybody can be creative in their own way I just think that the world might not be ready for my vision or your vision at the moment but everybody will have their moment, hopefully:)

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso

First day of shooting Forrest

The 11 of December, our first shooting day was in the Heaton Woods, in the morning we realized that it was very cold, to keep the temperature on both the Free -runners the schedule had to be tight. Key points that I had to consider for next shooting days:
# My shots the cinematic shots that I choose in my storyboard couldn’t be executed easy because it was cold and the free runners had difficulties to stay in position, I had to change some shots in the storyboard.
# Very slippery some of the "stunts" couldn’t be done because it was too risky.
# I had very very brave and courageous Runners they tried to go all out as best as they could for the film, so I'm very happy:)

On the way back to town we did some last shots from the Cathedral, loads of people were looking and commenting on my Bradagascar animals :)
Note to myself always take extra shots, in case something goes wrong.
Some make up pictures of my concrete Urban free runner animals.

Sunday 13 December 2009

Sunday was the most effective day of all we shot the last scenes and all three Freerunners were there. Unfortunatly I needed some more shots and the day ran out it was getting dark. I found the closeups and the focus pull very hard to do on my own. But I did as best as I could.