Moving Image- Ambient Vapour!!!!
For The Moving image project I worked with Charlotte, Helen, Salome and Vyte. Charlotte took the role of Director, Helen: Producer, Vyte: Editor, Salome: Camera and I was in charge of sound. We were given a script called Ambient Vapour which we gathered as a group was something to do with an addiction and that it was a mystery/drama genre. We had to make a presentation on what we thought of the script, what are new scene would be, actors we would be using, the locations we would film, sound we would use and to show examples of pieces of work we liked.
We basically had to put a rough idea of what we thought our script was about and how we as a group were going to produce it as a short film. We came up with lots of different ideas of how the finished work could look and lots of ideas for the new scene we had to add to the script. After reading the script we were unsure as to what the main theme of the script was about, was it an addiction such as drugs or alcohol, or was it a cult or some short of dream. We liked this confusion so decided against putting and evidence of any of these in the film so, after watching our film the audience would make up their own mind as to what was ambient Vapour.
For our extra scene we had to create we came up with a rough idea that there would use a double screen with the girl talking to herself, but we would show more than one of herself almost as if she was taking to her subconscious mind. so you would see her as a good person on the left and a bad person on her right, she would be having a discussion with herself deciding what she should do. We gathered from the script that she couldn't remember what she had done or it was about to happened but was shown in the wrong order?
As the script was very confusing when we started the project we decided against this idea of the main character talking to herself as we felt it would add to much confusion as to what was going on and it had hardly any connection to our story and we felt it had had been used too many times before. We then came up with another idea based on the film 500 days of summer. In 500 days of summer the screen is divided into two to show two very different ideas of the same scene. It shows the reality of what is actually happening and what the character thinks is happening. As a group we liked this idea as it meant we could show the affect of Ambient Vapour on the character without adding any more confusing dialogue. The spilt screen would show what she thinks is happening... that she is asleep in bed and the reality.... she is going to the warehouse where ambient vapour takes place.
I have enjoyed making this pathway, creating my own quiz more than I thought I would have. At the start like using 3d studio max I found flash very hard to understand as I have only ever used it this year. However I have continued to work with a very complicated set of codes to create my final piece of work. I am happy with the way it has turned out and I feel it meets the desired out comes, such as animation, video clip and adding sound/music. I also think that the idea of creating a quiz around the theme of Alice In wonderland worked well and makes the quiz more interesting.
