The idea surrounding illusions and coming up with the illusions that we eventually went to create required a lot of experimentation just to get our heads around the science of what we were actually doing (As seen below).
Working with mirror illusions has been an interest of mine for quite some time, and what we came up with was interesting twist on that I think, although initially quite confusing, once we had our heads around it we found some flexibility with it. It also made it a little easier to come up with ways of helping the audience understand that in the film. The only wish I had was that we had more time to really get to grips with what we could do with the project, but before we knew it we had to go and shoot something.
Similar to the set-ups above, we decided to take our illusions out into the world and try and use the environment, people and architecture to confuse the space and present our illusion to an audience. Working in a two man team was difficult, but we tried to keep as organised as we could, and the set was very lighthearted. We also enlisted our classmate; Rob to film our experience on set in the hope that we could use that in the film. I felt that we worked really well together on set and it was a very enjoyable experience shooting it, not only because of that but because we could see what we were creating and were quite happy with how it was turning out for us.
Once we were in the edit and could see what footage we had, we were happy with what we had and didn't feel that we needed to do anymore shooting. The only problem we faced was trying to convey what we knew about the illusions to the audience, without totally giving it away. This took some planning, and we spent a bit of time discussing it and how much time it would take to get to a rough cut so that we could keep to schedule as well as make the best film possible. A lot of initial time was taken by organising the clips, as both of us were novices in editing multi-camera work so we tried to keep the workspace organised. Our plan for the edit was generally to start with some short shots of each illusion, and to show some clips of the process and then to slow the illusions right down to give the audience some time to look at them and understand them, as well as showing more clips of the process of making the film to give some further insight. We felt this was the best way to let the audience experience the illusion, then to help them understand it, which we felt more confident about after Anne suggested the same to us in her tutorial.
Overall after the film was finished I was really happy with how it turned out. With all that's left is to display the illusion in a gallery space with the photography work, which I think will provide a better experience for the audience, I felt that we achieved what we set out to do. If perhaps we had a bit more time then we could have done more with the illusion, or set it up like an installation to begin with, but considering the time we had I think we did something that fit the brief quite well, and we had a good time making it which made it so much more worth the while.
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