Five weeks ago I was teamed up with Graeme, Katie, Yingxi, Frazer and Parastoo. We were given five weeks to make a 3 minute film based on a script by Jools titled "Ticket". At first the script was rather hard to understand as at points it seemed to just have two unrelated sentences juxtaposed. The other thing I noticed was that it didn't end conclusively, it just cut off mid-dialogue.
So once we had been given the script we allocated ourselves jobs, and with Katie, Frazer and Paras all competing for director/producer/editor roles I jumped onto lighting as I had done that in the one shot project. What differed between this project and the past one was that this time around everyone had different ideas on what we could make of this script, whereas last term there was generally a creative drought. None of us wanted to do a "sappy" romantic film, however after assessing the script over and over it soon became clear that it would be very difficult to stay away from the romance genre.
We all agreed that we wanted there to be a dark twist on the film, and i think it was Paras that suggested the idea about the book, and having a character come to life. The team decided that this would be a good story to tell and an enjoyable one to create and we started work on it immediately, with Graeme studying up on Cameraman tutorials, Katie contacting Nottingham City Transport and myself taking the job of adapting the script to fit what we were looking for.
We met up as a group two to three times a week to discuss how each of us were doing with our roles and it wasn't long before we had secured a bus to shoot on as well as actors to play our protagonists. The day of the shoot was a mixed bag of emotions to say the least, as when we arrived on location there was some debating with the general safety manager about whether or not we were permitted to film. However Katie stepped up to the challenge and solved it. The shooting itself went well as both of our actors were fun to work with and enjoyed being a part of the creative process.
From there we went into editting, where we encountered a few problems with background sound as well as some of the videos. It seems we were a little ambitious to strive for shooting on the bus with green screen, however I'd argue that at least we tried it, and Frazer seemed confident that given a little extra time he could sort it out. As for the sound I brought in a friend to do the voiceover for Lisa, which went well.
Overall, I enjoyed working with this group on this script, it was a lot of good fun and there's very little I would change. I'd definately have gotten more shots on the bus though, as in the editting there were concerns that it wouldn't work out. However in terms of feedback everyone has reponded positively, saying that the narrative was very clear and the general idea was clever. Our best feedback appears to be for the location, the fact we managed to obtain a bus has been labelled as "an impressive achiement".
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