Firstly the issue was that the competition we were going to create the film for was closed (a year ago) which we both missed but we agreed to try and create a piece anyway and I felt I could learn from it and develop and push my skills and techniques. I had looked at lots of other films about art walks and felt that we could create something very original and different. In order to add to the footage shot covering the walk I devised the idea of complementing them with a studio shoot and then fusing the two together. Sara had a script from her walks and I edited this down to the key points.
I aimed to shoot Sara presenting them against a green screen in a TV studio then I could composite them together and get creative in After Effects. As well as the script I worked up some storyboards of a huge variety of shots for different lines to create some texture by focussing on her presenting the walk and then in post-production creating the piece.
There were some issues shooting the piece as Sara is not a TV presenter and the lines were tricky for her to remember so possibly an auto-cue would make things easier next time. Sara also needed coaching in front of the camera and was at times unnatural and stilted but across two studio shoots we got the footage shot.
the main issue was thatI think we needed to dis cuss the nature of the piece more as I was more interested in Jane Jacobs and Art Walks in general. Sara was happy to cover some of that but was really after a piece very specific to her so we were pulling in very different directions.
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