Colour Doodle

This is the final film. After a lot of editing, we are all really pleased and the time we put in has paid off.

Song Ideas

We had some more ideas about what song we might use for the video. We still want something with a strong beat we can edit angles to but we think it needs to relate to the idea of a heart. We thought maybe 'Tainted Love' by Soft Cell as the beat is consistent but also the lyrics are about love and hearts so are perfect.


We might also go with 'Love + Pain' by Clor. This song has a lot of changes and could be really interesting to edit to.

Day of Filming

Today we filmed all the footage we need to make our film. We looked for pictures of hearts we wanted the drawing to look like and showed them to our artist, Charlie. These are a selection we gave her so she had an idea of what we wanted.
























We then set up a studio, this involved hanging black sheets from my ceiling to black out the area and making sure the camera would not see any other backround.

We had one camera set up on a tripod but left the other handheld for some close up shots, which we will then edit in to make the film more interesting.


Charlie-Artist





















We filmed about half an hours footage of her drawing the heart. One angle was completely straight on, on the tripod as to have a continous stream of filming.


We made sure she drew the heart with a thick, black outline as we are hoping to animate it beating at the end of our film. This we will try and do in either Final Cut Pro or After Effects. This is what the final drawing looks like.

Finalised Video Ideas

We have finally planned out when our video is to be filmed and what it will involve. My flatmate, Charlie, does a degree in Graphic Design and is a keen artist. She is really good at drawing and we have decided to use her work in our film. We wanted to stick with the idea of filming something being created, just as it is in 'Blow Up' and flash mobbing. This time though it will be a drawing and to stick with to something being created and coming alive, we have chosen to ask her to draw a heart. This will enable us to possibly use animation towards the end of the film and make the heart picture beat.
Louise is keen to use music in this film and we all feel it should relate to the topic matter. However, we think because the video content might be quite simple, editing must be more complex so the song must have an interesting beat to reflect the heart but also allow us to edit along to it. I had the idea of using this song by Chemical Brothers as it has such a good beat which could make editing really interesting.



It doesn't however, relate to the content of the video much as it is only instrumental. I think it is a reasonable back up though and we might end up using it if nothing better arises.

More Video Work

As we talked as a group, we decided to do something that looked a bit like documentary. Charys had ideas to do with Flash Mobbing and wanted to look at if there was anything we could incorporate and film making that our main point. 'The institute for crazy dancing' was suggested, based in Leeds it would be easy to get involved in and possible film any of the events that they might be running. These consist of a variety of things, this film is an example of the sort of things they do.



Our idea however, was completely based on whether or not any events were coming up within the time we had. After e-mailing Jason Hird, we found that this would not work as next plans are for May.
After this fell through, we have been made to move our idea along, making sure we don't have to rely on others because of our really short time period we have to work in. We all agree on the idea of using some form of art as the base of our film but want to make sure it is still interesting enough to keep the audience engaged for 5 mins.

Video Ideas

For this video module I wanted to create something quite abstract, following on from the last one I was involved in based on colour. I also however, wanted to look at something either relating to photography or at least art. This idea was inspired by the Michelangelo Antonion film 'Blow Up', from 1966. Said to be based on David Bailey, this film looks at the fashion, music and art scene in 60's London, following a main storyline featuring an apparent murder. What I wanted to take from this film was an idea of behind the scenes, ignoring the central plot line, I wanted to look at the way the photoshoots were filmed and maybe look at creating an abstract documentary style film. This clip is a perfect example.


I love the style of the film and the feel of the era. Obviously not aiming to create something as iconic but using the idea of featuring photography as a starting point.