So, Mark and I had a window of opportunity last weekend - the time and sunny weather. Sun was necessary to generate the reflections I wanted and time was, basically, in short supply. As I kept saying to him - it has to get done today, we're both around and there will not be another opportunity. He has been very obliging, especially surprising considering what bad moods we were in that day.
The location for the 'us' movie was Newport Lakes as it has stepping stones. i envisaged that we would film each other - or bits of each other - crossing these and our reflections in the water. I failed to account for a large boozey family fishing outing at one end (eventually moved on by the tireless ranger) meaning we could only shoot in one direction and, far more seriously, that I'd failed to account for the direction of stones versus the location of the sun. That is, there was no reflection!!! So this meant an immediate re-think on locations and shots. Instead, we found that the smaller lakes were better angled for reflections and shot some great footage of not only our reflections, but of tree and rock reflections and water movement. We also found that we cast great shadows, rather than reflections, from the stepping stones and so shot shadows instead.
Thus, the actual footage shot, rather than the planned shots has in turn influenced how I will edit and the soundtrack I'll contstruct. More in the next post.
Creatively, I'm realising that a lot of my time is spent in non-creative technical problem-solving and I can't say I find this very conducive to the process overall. In a unit where (VU having removed 25% of our course hours) we get one 3 hr session (minus late comers and the health and safety 'break' that no one takes) to play about on a variety of software and then decide what to create on what software and then do it - there's not a lot of time for 'mulling' or explorative experimenting that could fail.
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