video production diary

Video production diary



Week one

Our group began to brainstorm ideas for a new and exciting piece of video art. To start off we thought of ideas of what we would all like to have within the film. We then came to the conclusion of basing our short film on the themes of sadness and isolation. We wanted to make a piece of video which the audience could empathise with which we all felt would be moving and engaging. Then from looking and researching on the internet we came across High Royds mental lunatic asylum which is currently derelict. It then therefore came across as empty, abandoned and neglected which was our general feel and approach.


Week two

In week two we then began to think about visiting this derelict building. A few of us then went to visit to find out whether if it is safe and stable to film within the premises. A few days later we then returned with filming equipment, props and a good outlook on filming. Whilst filming we had to be quick so setting up would be difficult because we didn’t really have permission to be there. After filming all we could in that particular building. We then set off to film in the main building but then we got chased by contractors and we were forced to leave due to it being private property, but luckily we had plenty of footage to work with.


Week three

Week three consisted of editing our film. We first started off by choosing as a group clips that we likes and started to assemble these clips into a certain order. This made the process of editing a lot easier. We made a mental-paper-edit which aided us in choosing the appropriate and best footage. We found that we needed to fulfil everyone one in the team’s visual ideas. We did this by discussing each clip carefully and abandoning the unwanted footage. Once we had chosen the footage we then began to experiment with the order, effects and sound of the short film before layering our sound track and voice over.