I'm doing another blog this week on top of the two others that were mandatory as a final transition into the A level class. The first blog did have one paragraph talking about the fact that I have transitioned but nothing more. This post I guess is more focused on looking back at my AS level and seeing from there what I want to achieve this year with my portfolio project.
I think looking back at my old project from last year is a good place to start, since I already covered other projects from this year. I think looking back at that project is especially important because it is a short film, which is what I want to do this year as well. For anyone curious it can be found in an earlier post. After watching it again I personally think the weakest aspects was kind of everything in the camera itself, I do remember struggling once again on how to direct the actors. I also remember having to shorten the script a lot and because of that much of it felt unclear or unstable in a way I am not really sure how to describe it. The bottom line is, script was not the greatest. These are the two things that I take away the most from my past project and what I need to keep in mind while I am doing the new project.
I think a good way to keep track of this is to simply spend more time in the pre-production stage. Take more time on the dialogue, which was the weakest aspect of the script and I am confident that I am not confident in my writing abilities there. Spending more time there I can also add a few notes on how I want things to be delivered ahead of time. Having those thoughts in my head early on will allow me to refine them while filming. Essentially it is just a lot more looking forward into the project kind of like how this is blog is doing in a way.
Now with that out of the way I think a good way to finalize to transition is to start talking about my thoughts for the new project. Now with that topic at the forefront, I have no idea what the hell I am going to do for this project. I have ideas but I feel that they are too much.
One of my ideas was like this A plot and B plot piece about a few poker players that have lost their touch and are now losing or have already lost their popularity, whether that be awhile ago or recently. They are in this blank room in this kind of piece of reality outside the normal. (Well not blank I was thinking more light blue and it is poker players because I like watching poker and already know a bit about it.) These character basically just talk about their experiences in their heights playing the game and where they are now and how they are dealing with it. The other plot being some of the games they are describing, I imagined these very stylized sections emulating to the audience why they like it so much. The whole piece is kind of just a discussion on loss of purpose and something else I do not know how to describe but that doesn't matter because I don't think I would be able to tell it properly in seven minutes.
But honestly who knows what will happen, maybe I should remain cautiously optimistic , we'll see. For now I just have to keep thinking about ideas and concepts, I'll get there eventually.
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