Portrait of Place; Tutorial

After receiving feedback, it was agreed that our rough cut didn't need to much doing do it. The simplicity of the cuts were thought to enhance the mood of the piece, rather than down grade it.

There was a bit of a dispute on how to get to the final shot of the film, we knew we wanted to keep a symmetrical element by starting and finishing with a shot of our character looking at first where he was headed, then looking back at where he had come. The problem was with the fading day light, come the end of the shooting day we had run out of time to film any more inserts that would help solve the otherwise clumsy transition to the final shot. In the end we decided to include two unplanned cross-fades, while this takes from the simplistic and somewhat bare feel of the film, it made a much better and well rounded ending, not only by solving the problem of a lack of usable footage, but adding to the sense of a passing of time and completion of the journey made by our character.

If anything was learnt from this it would be to always over shoot. Even if at the time that extreme close up of a bush seems a little pointless, you never know when it might come in use.