We decided to look at this exercise from a different side and make it a bit more interesting than just making a cup of tea. In order to try as much different filming techniques in a single footage as possible we needed to make it longer. We came up with the idea to create a short film with a story line.
Working Title - Wherever you go I shall follow
Background
A woman is left heart broken over the death of her one true love. He died due to cancer/died in Afghanistan. She lives on her own in the flat they bought together. She is surrounded by the memory of him. She no longer leaves the house or has any desire for human interaction.
Movie Opening
Black screen – Music starts (Gymnopédie No. 1) Possibly with the title of the film
The blackness is interrupted by the door of the kitchen opening and the light being turned on.
The woman picks up the kettle, fills it and switches it on.
She moves to the cupboard to get a mug. Whilst there she sees the mug belonging to her dead husband. She picks it up and it triggers a flash back to her husband drinking from the cup, laughing, hugging kissing. It is obvious that they are very happy together.
She puts the mug back and reaches for the tea, places a teabag in the mug and then opens the drawer to get a teaspoon. In the drawer is a letter from the NHS. She pulls it out to read in again. It states that the husband has inoperable stage 4 cancer (or that he was KIA)
She moves to the fridge to get the milk. On the fridge is a photo of the two of them. She takes it from the fridge and brings it over to the mug so she can look at it whilst she is making tea. The kettle has boiled and the water goes into the cup.
The teabag is removed and the milk is stirred in turning from black to white. She carries it into her bedroom and puts it on a table. She can be seen to be putting on lipstick, eye-liner and perfume.
She sits at the table and breaks a number of capsules into the tea.
She is looking at the photo. She turns it over. On the back it is written ‘wherever you go, I shall follow.’
She finishes her tea. The cup falls from her hand and smashes on the floor.
As the cup breaks the photo of the pair slips from her fingers.
The final scene is her lifeless body slumped in the chair.
Fade to black
Sketches:
Production Notes
Filming this piece took a number of days and the operational
challenges we encountered meant that the story changed ever so slightly.
Initially we thought that we would to have enough film to cover the length of
the soundtrack but in the end we were forced to cut several scenes to ensure
that it all fit in.
The scenes were captured using a Canon 5D mk2 at 25fps and a
shutter speed of 1/50th with the audio muted. This meant that some of the
essential sound effects were recorded afterwards using a portable sound
recorder.
Once we had all the clips we used a programme call Elements
Premiere to assemble the movie. Although this is not as accurate as Premiere
Pro it was very helpful in terms of learning how to piece together a short
movie. It meant that once we got to the lesson with John Boothe where he
explained the basic principals of Premiere Pro a lot of the things he was
showing us made more sense and allowed us to re-cut the movie using this
programme.
Finished video:
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