Moving Image

Overall our Moving Image piece was of a great success. Our given script was ‘Dog’, I can’t say it was easy, because it wasn’t, conjuring a piece with the line ‘From outside the toilet we hear a difficult shit taking place’ was going to be hard from the start. Our take on the story was that the man had been hypnotised into becoming a dog. The whole piece itself is pretty much about him going through his daily routine acting like a dog, until you discover at the end (our added scene) that he was in fact hypnotised to be like. This is unveiled when his wife enters from a day at work shocked to see him in his state of acting like a dog, and a fallen ticket to a hypnotist showing.

Filming although time consuming (11 hours for one day and an hour the next day) was worth it in the end. I think it took us a while this time around compared to the One shot because we desired perfection, we had the option this time of repeating our scenes, unlike one shot we had to be done in one take. Being the camera man, this was very tiring and repetitive for me. Especially when the shots required me to use the camera without the tripod, because I had to be very still and sharp.

Our scenes in general turned our well, we were fortunate to have good weather during our park, café and street scenes and were lucky that there wasn’t that many people there to disturb out shots. We actually struggled the most with the indoor scenes when our character is at home. It was difficult to shoot due lighting. The lighting was probably the worse disadvantage through the whole process of filming because we had to get the lighting right in every scene. As it started to get darker outside meant that we had to modify the camera a lot to match the lighting, and move the lights around a bit to get it accurate to the previous scene we may have shot.

One of the great advantages we added to this piece was the POV. We gave the character/viewer the option of seeing the world through a dogs eyes in black and white. I think generally all the scenes worked very well, the actor we had playing the role of a dog was convincing and played the role well. All in all it was a long process, but considerably fun to make.