Edale - Short Film Analysis

ASPECT - By Emily Richardson (2004)

http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/showcase/assets/showcase_items/aspect

I like the idea behind this short film as what they have done is filmed the same forest for a period of a year and used techniques like time lapse to condense it into a few minutes. There are varying shots of the forest from wide shots of the trees to shots filmed closer and within the trees so you can get even more of an insight into how they change throughout the year. There’s also a big focus on light as you see it changing through the year and also the sunlight coming in through the trees. As much as I like things to do with wildlife this did lose my interest a bit as nothing eventful really happens and to me the shots aren’t interesting enough to capture my imagination due to the fact they are all rather similar. This film is good at demonstrating ‘portrait of place’ though which is what we will have to do ourselves but I’m not sure if there is much I can take from this.

Edale - Weather update

Weather/preparation

I have been checking the weather up until the night before the shoot and it looks as though rain will be very likely and could be ongoing for large parts of the day so we will definitely be taking a camera cover and I will also take plastic carrier bags and a sturdy umbrella in case the rain is heavy and also if it’s quite windy.

Edale - about the location

 Here are a couple of images of the location for our 'Portrait of Place' project.
Apart from a few buildings in the small village of Edale most of the landscape is made up of quite large areas of open greenery with a few trees scattered about and lots of hills. This means our idea will have to fit in very much with place as theres no point in coming up with ideas that would encorporate buildings or built up places etc. There's not got to be many places to shelter or get food so we're going to have to make sure we have everything we need on us, including food/drink, ideal clothing/shoes especially if the weather is bad
we will need waterproofs for ourselves and the equipment as we cannot get the camera wet.

Edale - Equipment & Props List

PRODUCTION NAME Portrait of Place

PRODUCER Dan Walsh & Hannah Bushnell

DIRECTOR Hannah Bushnell & Dan Walsh

DATES PICK UP 9:00am 27/10/11

DATES RETURN 9:00am 28/10/11

QTY	DESCRIPTION	NOTES
1	PD170 camera	Will include battery and waterproof jacket for camera, will also need a tape
1	Tripod

Props List

Costume – Black Jacket/Trousers/Shoes

Hammer

Bag

Plain White T-shirt

Tomato/Brown sauce (blood)

Gloves

Edale - Shot List

The characters face will not be shown in any of these shots to keep his identity hidden and create some mystery around him. Different or more shots will probably be added on the day when we know what we have to work with location-wise, these are just some of the main shots we want to cover.

SHOT NUMBER	SCENE	ACT	LOCATION	TYPE AND DESCRIPTION OF SHOT
1	1	1	Edale Village	MS – mans feet walking down path, camera positioned low down
2	2	1	Edale Village	MS-CU – man bending down to retrieve gloves concealed in a bush
3	2	2	Edale Village	Extreme CU – putting on gloves
4	3	1	Edale – countryside	LS – man walking past camera and then down path through field
5	3	2	Edale – countryside	CU over the shoulder – picking up hammer and starting to frantically clean it
6	3	3	Edale – countryside	CU over the shoulder – washing hammer frantically in pond
7	3	4	Edale – countryside	CU – washing hammer from different angle
8	4	1	Edale – countryside	MS-CU – putting hammer in bag while walking (hand held)
9	4	2	Edale – countryside	POV shot – man stops to look around
10	4	3	Edale – countryside	MS-LS – starts walking off while head still looking around
11	5	1	Edale – Trees	Head on LS of man walking towards camera
12	5	2	Edale - Trees	Cutaway of blood stained T-shirt next to tree
13	5	3	Edale - Trees	Quick MS of legs (lying down) through the trees
14	5	4	Edale - Trees	MS – man running towards body
15	5	5	Edale - Trees	MS-CU man standing over body& looks up
16	5	6	Edale - Trees	POV shot looking up at trees/sky
17	6	1	Edale - Graveyard	MS over the shoulder looking a gravestone
18	6	2	Edale - Graveyard	WS camera pans away from man & looking into the distance