For our 1st week project, we went with the idea of the Pickpocket. In our group discussion of our concept, we wanted something a bit more interesting, and ambiguous than a straight forward Crime, and victim. Thus between us, we developed the idea of a phone being stolen, but being replaced with one looking identical, with an unknown number ringing the caller. This doesn't simply suggest a crime, but something much, much bigger of a far more complex, and possibly sinister idea. I was the director of the piece, and thought our choice of shots to show our actor (Ryan) pseudo-stalking his pray through various shots, and looking fairly mundane at first were quite visually interesting, and did help build tension, and create enigma coding of who he was, and why he did what he did, which really helped me as a Director, get the most out of my actors.
Our choice of shots were mostly Long shots to establish with, with a few mid-shots, and then mostly close-ups, to show Andy's confusion, and Ryan's intentions. We chose to film in the Art Centre Cafe, as we felt it had a far different atmosphere than most other places on campus. However in Editing we found the lighting was far too warm, exuberant, bright, and cozy for our idea, and the atmosphere we were going for, so we changed it to Black and White in editing, and sharpened the contract to make a bolder image. We also added ambient sound we found on the internet, as we suffered some problems with our camera's audio recording capabilities. Overall in review, we were quite happy with our piece, and found it was quite creative, quite well-made, other than a few camera shots, we couldn't really think of much we'd have changed in hindsight, and felt feedback was mostly positive.
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