Filming update (10/12/13)

On Tuesday (10/12/13), we went out to film a few more of the framed scenes at Endcliffe Park. We did encounter a few problems surrounding this - one of which was that the park we intended to film was occupied, so we could not film the original shots that we had previously planned. However, we still managed to make use of the location by gathering some general location footage, and ended up setting up the camera from the angle shown below in front of a row of houses, which we think fits well within the idea of showing perspective, possibly towards the end of the film as the focus could be symbolic of an unclear memory:

We did manage after some time to get a few close up shots of items within the park area, which we could end up using briefly within the childhood scenes:

 

By the time we were due to finish filming it was starting to get dark, but we used this as an opportunity to gather a range of different shots focusing on blurred out lights within street and lit up building scenes, as shown within the still images above. This gave us more to work with within the edit, as some of these could double up and be used either for childhood memories (being in the context of a reflection of the street where the subject grew up) or elderly memories (lights going in and out of focus representing searching for a memory that is becoming unclear and almost, but not quite forgotten. 

 

We also used this as an opportunity to experiment with using the frame at different times of the day. We now have three framed shots, one for each of the progressive stages of growing up that are shown in our film, apart from the end, elderly memory loss scenes. This is because we wanted to keep these as simple as possible, and let the final few clips, which purely show lights going in and out of focus from a window visually show the narrative and memory searching theme by themselves, as opposed to the frame directing the viewer's eyeline to a particular area (inside the frame).

These are the final shots that we intend to use, showing rain and lights out of focus from the perspective of inside looking out of a window. These will be used to lower the tone of the piece and create a sad atmosphere: