Film for A Sense Of Place

Our original idea for the sense of place video footage was to show just a busy area, most likely the Sheffield train station, and do a time lapse of that area and add in various other layers to that played over the top of that one to create a business effect playing on from the soundtrack. However we decided in the end to film 3 different locations and not change the soundtrack as we wanted to show how the contrast in locations has no effect on people whatsoever and because all the places are still very busy, no ones attitudes change to one another and everyone is still caught up within themselves. We tried to show this by doing various small time lapses of different places whilst incorporating various other experimental techniques we had seen in our experimental film analysis. This including jump-cuts, the flashing of images within long takes (or in our case time lapses), transitions between scenes and final the colour correction or de-saturation of the video.

As the soundtrack didn't involve show any major change when moving inbetween the different locations, we had to make the transitions smooth and not jarring. We did this by using slow cross dissolves which corresponded to the slow change in sound and I think effectively changed the place, without effecting the overall sense of the place which is what we were trying to achieve.

The first draft of the film which we showed to the group and our tutors, was given a decent amount of feedback on certain aspects of the film which we will attend to and improve as soon as possible. The main things we are in the process of changing are the title, the end of the film where we show clips in reverse, and the volume of certain aspects of the sound. Even though we were criticized on other points of the film, I believe it was because we came relatively unprepared to the presentation and didn't have all the notes we needed to be able to justify a few of the shots, so for the final presentation, we will create a powerpoint or bring the necessary notes we need to justify every shot and every decision we made throughout the film and the soundtrack which will hopefully make our intentions clearer and give our audience an insight into our ideas and thought processes we used to create our final product.