The 4 hour film challenge
This film challenge was incredibly harder than I imagined. As we had to create a short film based around the title, 'The Conversation', we decided to play to our strengths and we made a short film involving a montage.
Film Synopsis
A young boxer has the most important fight of his life coming up. With no family, his only companion is his close personal friend/trainer, who inspires him to work hard and train hard after 'the conversation'.
I was responsible for filming this short film, we wanted to shoot as much footage as we could in this short amount of time. We decided to use two Canon DSLR and a GoPro Hero 4 for the filming. The DSLR allowed us to shoot good quality shots, whilst the GoPro gave us unique angles and made the film almost interactive for the viewer as it felt like they were in the eyes of the character.
For the audio, as the DSLR doesn't have the best of microphones within it, we decided to use a slide on zoom mic which is attached on the top of the camera. In certain shots the characters are holding the microphone in order to increase the sound quality further. I was then responsible for editing the sound together with the footage.
Overall I am extremely pleased with how this video has turned out. We wanted the montage sequence to look like an actual 'Rocky' themed montage, so to do this, we spent time slowing down certain 'Rocky' montages and viewing the shots that were used to make it look so effective. The onstage need to cut from scene to scene extremely sharp, a variety of angles needed to be used and most importantly tense music was needed! I edited the video so that each scene cut extremely quick and sharp to another shot, with the two Canon DSLRs and the GoPro we were able to capture a number of angles and when we combined this with the montage music, we were extremely pleased.
As we wanted the montage to be a decent length, we came across the problem of getting long lengths of footage in a short length of time. For certain shots of the montage we decided to speed up the footage to make it seem as though his training his starting to become beneficial, so therefore this didn't turned out quite effective.
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