TASK 8 - Describe How My Research Activities Undertaken To Prepare, Plan & Complete My Visual Content For My Festival Project
In class we were shown different trailers for different festivals, this showed us that we didn’t have to rely on raw footage from a festival to create the illusion of being there. There are different techniques you can use when filming for example: lighting, colour, audio and editing. By using these devices they can create a certain atmosphere to signify emotions and moods.
One of the trailers that I really liked was the visionsonic festival as that trailer used b-rolls, which are pieces of alternate footage which interlinks with the main shots, that split up information. By doing this it makes it easier to process, It also uses b-rolls to add a certain mood and atmosphere to the festival on a whole and to visually relay the information. In my film, I want to have b-rolls to break up the shots between the stop motion and the pans of the 3D figures. I also feel as though if I just had a film about the figures that it would be very boring to watch. So by having b-rolls, it will make it more intriguing to watch. I want to create a summer feeling using the footage I film and I will edit it to look more summer-like, by maybe adding more colour to it or raising the saturation as I feel like that will make the film more appealing.
Another trailer I liked was the Typophile film festival. I really liked how there was one running theme throughout, that being senses, and how everything in the trailer was connected in some way. There was also a mixture of digitally enhanced clips along with physical and stop motion. I also liked how the different scenes flowed well and transitioned and how it was quite a cyclical narrative as it finished how it began. In my film, I would like to have a theme of music and being on a journey. I will also like to incorporate using the footage to separate a bulk of film but to also transition it as well as keeping the themes.
When creating my b-rolls, I wanted to have a summertime atmosphere so I filmed the outdoors, people walking, flowers and the sun as it is a summer festival and I wanted to give it a calm feeling to it as I want to portray my festival to be fun, happy and carefree.
As for my stop motion, I liked the idea of having the figures traveling up the bass guitar, making it seem like a journey. I really like how the background is all black as it makes the figures and the strings of the bass really stand out.