Assignment: Assembly

We had problem with the media connection so had to start again, which meant that the footage labelling I did  the previous week was gone.

Me and Clarice decided to split the initial work process. She went through the footage and labelled the majority of it and put together a very vague assembly. I then came in to get started on the rough cut, I started by going through all the folders that Clarice had labelled and picking the best footage from all the different folders and putting them in the timeline.

After I selected the best bits and put them on the timeline it came up to sixteen minutes of footage. I blocked all the clips from their individual folders on the timeline and started to think of a storyline for the final cut, and I moved around the blocks of footage to best portray this so that when we came in to work more on the rough cut it would be easy to work out.

There were a number of different routes the sequence could take so I wrote them all down so that I could present them to Clarice to see which one she liked better and we could work towards .

I wanted to the scene to feel like the audience were climbing a rock surface, watching him practice and fall and eventually climb and make it to the top. This scenario can be edited in different narrative structures, the one I was aiming towards was non linear with an element of the Love Scene from Out Of Sight (Soderbergh, 1998) that we watched in class.

The soundtrack is something we haven't started to look at yet though a few ideas have come to mind. I wanted something that slowly climax or that had peaks and troughs, for example The Kill or Attack by 30 Seconds To Mars or a piece of classical music. Being that the project is 5 minutes more than one track is more realistic, and will help set the emotion for different parts of the project. Of course finding royalty free music with such elements may prove a little difficult to acquire especially when you being really specific so I need to keep an open mind for what we might find. Also picking a track that intensifies or helps to fraudulate the audience emotions might prove necessary because the central character seems as cold stiff and distant as the rocks he climbs and I think it will be easier getting a performance from the bag of chalk.