Final Shoot & Edit.

During the final shoot i was panicking quite a lot, Harry failed to tell me that he was going to be busy until 3 oclock in the afternoon, leaving me roughly 5 hours of daylight to shoot, i was unable to get back down the yard on a different day due to work commitments and travel costs. I had managed to get all the equipment i needed from stores and this time i had brought a film tripod and two spare lenses a 25mm and a 50mm. In hindsight i really wished i had brought an 80mm one also for some of the wider shots, as i was unable to zoom in onto things apart from with the stock lens, I had envisioned getting some extreme CU shots of harry moving around in the style of 'Fruit factory' but because i would need to be too close with the camera and i didn't want to make him uncomfortable as he looked much better on camera when he was being natural. I started off the day by getting there early, i walked down to a nearby field that had some really interesting looking yellow flowers in, i wanted to capture a few shots of them ebbing and bowing in the wind, i think this worked really nicely and i thought it would provide a stark contast to the industrial shots i would be filming later in the day.

During this time i also walked around and tried to capture some shots to contrast this image, at this point i confess i really had no idea what i was going to be doing in terms of editing. I lost my first assembly of the edit, which in a way was a blessing as it allowed me to go back to the piece and restart it but from a different angle, knowing the footage a little better. I had already come up with the structure of under laying the running shots throughout the film, I knew that i wanted the shot with Harry staring into the camera as my final shot. so i laid the base structure at several points in the timeline up to five minutes and began filling in the gaps between. During the shoot i had captured a shot of Harry doing some work on a car, i had purposely left his head out of the shot as it looked as it he were a full grown man, i introduced this before introducing his face, i showed this to somebody in the editing room to see if it had the desired effect and they said they were surprised it was a child.
I was faced with finding interesting ways of editing the rest of the image together, i decided to create a sequence in the beginning of the film comprised of some of the shots i had gathered in the caravan that was on the yard. During this sequence, Harry washes his face and looks at his own reflection in the mirror, i intercut this with the shot of the fly, i thought these shots complimented each other nicely, they are both quite small creatures so there was a link in that, also the fly took flight and moved on somewhere else, which echoes Harry's life. During the edit also i was faced with a decision about using the shots i had captured of out of focus lights on a black background, i decided to cut them together, i think the piece has a nice break in the middle with these shots in, although i am not 100 percent sure.

For the colour correction i used the 3 way colour correcter, i didn't want to oversaturate the colours, i wanted to create a dullish misty effect over the top, i tried doing this but it just didn't work with some of my footage. I ended up playing up the colours orange and green, Harry had green eyes, there was a lot of greenery around it made sense, orange seemed to be a neutral bright colour connoting something inbetween danger and sunlight. I brought the saturation down and adjusted the mids to orange and the lights to green on most of the shots, doing this individually shot by shot. I spent quite a while doing this as i knew it was important for my film in particular as it was very colourful.

Here are some screenshots of clips.

I captured this by chance, i noticed it as i was changing lens on the table.

Water Container just outside of the yard.

Harry with Ruby on the shoot, Ruby invited herself into quite a lot of the shots and became a main focal character of the film, i think the connection between them shows up on film.

During this shot i asked Harry to open his eyes a little wider, and as a consequence he didn't blink for 20 seconds, i think the image is stunning and is made all the more eerie by the fact he doesn't blink.

We found this bathtub at the end of the filming day, i think this shot is really pretty, and i think you can see some of my strong film influences in this shot.

This was an experimentation with lens flares.