Our feature made it to the Winol's bulletin this week! That's rather exciting. This week's feature was about Halloween's Trends 2010. Halloween is just round the corner, it is the time to party, wear costumes, and revert back to your childhood. The feature is supposed to help those who struggle to find their perfect costume this year.
Producing the video was rather fun, finding male and a female model was surprisingly easy. We were going to rent some costumes from the costume shop in Winchester but unfortunately that couldn't happen because the closest costume lending shop is in Southampton. Therefore we asked people who were willing to lend us their treasured costumes and we found lots of scary/ sexy/ sweet costumes for our models to wear on the day of filming.
We decided that the theme and the format of the feature will be different backgrounds for the same outfit, which was different to the last fashion show made in the studio. For example, we had a witch sweeping the floor outside a house and in the next shot we had a witch flying by the moon. I thought it was quite a good way to express the idea of each costume.
The costumes we had:
For the girl we had a cat suit, a devil, a witch Alice in Wonderland and Pocahontas. Whereas the boy wore a batman outfit, a vampire, a pirate and a devil costume. We also had lots of masks that we took close ups of.
Thanks to Google images we found many interesting backgrounds that went well with the costumes, such as a dark forest, a ship for the pirate, etc.
While editing, we mixed all the different backgrounds and costumes together adding music that puts into a Halloween mood.
I definitely enjoyed doing this week’s project. It was quick, interesting, easy to edit. There was only one setting, no audio. We didn’t have as many problems with putting it all into one good piece like we did last week. Last week’s feature was much more complicated and it involved many different scenes, setting and lots of talking. It was nice to do something simple but very effective this week.
Here is the feature, Enjoy!
Saturday 30 October 2010
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Hi Justi I was pleased to see this latest feature and hope you all have a good time tonight sweeping the cobwebs away for tomorrow, All Saints Day. I rather like the idea that the souls of the dead may visit their old homes which is what was believed for this festival here pre Christianity when supernatural associations were prevalent for this eve of their New Year. I like the costumes, masks, backgrounds and music,lots of good colours and it seems that you seem to be learning a great deal about feature making and indeed the attention to detail and research that goes into making even a short film. It seems quite a big ask, one a week, but fun for us. Keep them coming!!! Simple often has more impact.
ReplyDeleteThat was brilliant Justi..as Cait says your eye for detail and the research that goes into your shots is great..glad I won't be meeting any of these witches around here !!
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