Week 12 – The Presentation (Post 1)
I’m sitting here a bit confused as to where the entire semester, even more-so the entire Uni year went. Today was the day of our Week 12 Presentation. In the week leading up to this after our final group consultation, we met with Stayci who recommended that we focus on including as much detail we could about what we thought we could have done better during the entire experience. We were also told that this is a professional pitch. The following is a list of the designated roles for each of us:
For presentation;
- Jackson- talk about there for beginning and end, sound design, editing
- Laura- AD, editing shots-why we picked these shots, chronological of process; ending,
- Bonnie- Camera, location, chronological order of process; middle/shooting, changes in shooting, poster with tag line; if you go down to the woods today…
- Alex- editing the script, directing the shoot,
- Sarah- chronological order of process; the beginning, sound, collaborations and communication between us
From here we each went away to devise 2-3 minutes of speech + accompanying powerpoint slides for the presentation. We discovered through much deliberation that showing two scenes while also getting our individual points across would be well over the time limit. Here’s some evidence of that discussion:
We all went slightly crazy after that – but ultimately decided it’s just best to talk as fast as we could. We knew that what people wanted to see most was our final scenes. So we decided to not show any slides for Alex’s section and instead silently play scene one. It was a good decision. Here’s a copy of what I said for my part (which I felt average about r.e the delivery on my behalf). This is slightly longer than what I actually had time for in the presentation.
Bonnie [2:10mins]:
A major aim for Squadron was to explore location, to influence our shot decisions and build our production using the surroundings out in Warrandyte.
We had endeavoured to film Tuesday of Week 9, which (quite literally) by the force of nature, we were forced to reschedule the shoot because of hail. This in hindsight was a blessing in disguise. It gave us a chance to regroup, and discuss important changes such as the addition of both male cast members – Chris and Scott.
One week later we were able to reattempt the shoot on a thankfully hail-free day. Our call time of 10am had allowed us 5 hours of shooting between the two major locations of the day. Location One down by the river provided mixed weather conditions and saw me as camerawoman have to ensure that the cloud coverage remained constant throughout the shots, to avoid cuts going from light to dark. This ensured the all important continuity element of the teaser.
It was also important to consider the presence of people walking by. As expected in such a lovely walking area, we were accompanied members of the public passing through our shot. This provided us with many outtakes featuring dogs running into frame. Counterproductive for the shoot, but a bit of entertainment for us. This location took us upwards of 2.5 hours, which was longer than we had anticipated, but really showed how important it was to ensure we got the shots we needed.
Progressing onto Location Two out at Black Flat, we knew time was of the essence. We decided to use the spider-like Gorilla Tripod to at as a stabiliser for handheld shooting. This was incredibly effective for us. We managed to wrap the shoot on 3pm. This gave us just enough time to get the equipment from Warrandyte to RMIT. We agree it would have been to our advantage if we allowed more time for the shoot in the morning to avoid the frantic rush back to the city after importing the footage.