We started off with filming about an hour's worth of footage, from the comfort of Hayley's car, and the shot the journey from each other of the doors. We had 3 night shots on the same night at 3 different doors and 2 day shots. Once we had the footage we began to plan the layout and scenes for the video.
This is the plan for the first idea, it came from us deciding that we are going to map Drake Circus as a living organism. I thought about having a shot of someone breathing and overlay the doors over the lungs. Below is a sketch about we envisoned it:
Eventually when i came to do this scene, i found on Windows Movie Maker an effect that just showed the lines of the shot. So i saved that and overlaid the video in Adobe Premiere Pro, which i used for all my editing of the final film.
The second idea was to do a shot which showed the 3 doors running simultanously in a grid as if to monitor them like a CCTV camera. They would running at different speeds depending to how many people passed through them. Like in breathing, the faster you breathe, the more air particles move in and out of your lungs. Here is a drawing of the idea:
Finally i planned out a storyboard for the video and all the different shots i would need and what order too. I couldnt do the flash animation with air particles moving in and through the center, as i dont have enough training in this field. Somethings changed like i added the scene with the figures were had recorded on to a shot, as i felt it should the volume of people passing through, in hindsight i should have maybe left it out.
Below are the photoshop images i created to feature in the video. The title sequence was to show a parallel between drake circus and the human lung. The map was created from the map on the drake circus website, but i removed all the icons and symbols. Thus now only shows the entrances, which were the most important part.
As i had all the better video editing software, Hayley let me edit the film over christmas. OMG the trouble i had with that. First my camcorder didnt have a firewire cable with it, so we had to go buy one. Then it was the wrong one, so we took it back only to discover my laptop doesnt have a firewire port. So we ordered a card to plug into it, but that turned out to be the wrong size. In the end i used the house computer, which had one and then transfered them across! This took all of boxing day!!! Here is the final video ready to show:
On the day of the presentation, Hayley didnt show up and so i had to present by myself :( I wasn't too happy so i wait till last as all my group would have gone! Mike gave quite positive comments about it, seeing as he was quite blunt and harsh about the other ones that i thought were better than mine. The only problem is that i didnt have a final image as the conclusion to the project, as the video itself was more a presentation of ideas. So if i had to chose one from the collection it would be the line video of the doors overlayed with the breathing chest.
Overall i enjoyed the project and it had so much scope. I just wish hayley had stayed on to the end of the course.