Film Updates and Tutorials

I know it's been a while since I last posted, but it's been very busy in terms of where this film is going. Myself and Nick have now filmed our illusions and are in the edit with them. They came out really well:

We are now just trying to figure out the best way to present them. To start with we have decided to do a minute or so of quick cuts to be able to give the audience a taste of what this is about, and then slow it right down and give the audience a chance to view each illusion in a bit more depth so that they can try to make sense of it. We also have some behind the scenes footage to add in to it somewhere as well, with the prospect of putting it more towards the end.

We had a tutorial with Anne Parisio on Monday, which gave us a chance to get some feedback on our film. She seemed very interested by our concept and quite impressed with what we had done so far. She commented that she thought the audience needed to see the workings of the illusions as a sort of personal interest part of the idea. We explained that we were going to do that in some way, but more towards the end so as not to reveal all at once.

Aside from the actual film we are also trying to get a studio space booked for our assessment presentation so that we can set the illusion up as an installation which people can come and try and play around with as opposed to doing a presentation. That way our audience and our lecturers can get a real sense of what it is we have done, and can see it for themselves.

The only thing we really need to focus on now is what we are doing with sound in the film. We are cutting to music at the moment to get an idea of pace, but we need to decide what we actually want our sound to be like in the film, and that will be our next step.