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The participants met and were divided into 4 teams. The teams were then encouraged to brainstorm ideas about dreams that could be incorporated into the narrative of the time-slice film, and also to think about the 'moment' which would be frozen in time.
These are some of the ideas the teams came up with: A team Trying to climb up stairs but can't do it | In bed while bed is moving | Being chased - petrified - scream person by milk bottle | Being in a Disney movie | Running up vertical hill | Racing penguins | Flying | Fighting polar bear | Getting cooked
Computer game and virus - game over | Punch through head | Flying, spinning out of control | Jumping and never coming down, never getting to the surface in water | Flying through a wall and feeling the effect 10 seconds later | Line of people doing mexican wave, whole body moving back | Fingers growing out of fingers | Zoo animals escaping | Waking up in a chess board
Walking on water, falling in | Falling off a cliff | Wolf in house | Colour of world changes with every blink | Leprechaun offering savoury food | Arrows coming towards you | Accidental injury | Throwing ball of fire | Glass breaking on floor then changes into another object | Frozen pin ball | Smoke making sculptures | Skateboarders going coming towards a person then person disappears whilst skateboarders go past, man reappears behind | Person walking along, falls off cliff, stop before impact (time-slice) then smashes into tiny pieces | All the tiny pieces come together to form water, zoom into water and we see a person walking along on top of the water (time-slice)
Lightbulb on <-> reverse | Waking into the dream, | Lead into bed | Glass lightbulb breaks | Glass he's lead on falls / spinning | Water growing as you get nearer fall through puddle | Water curtain fire falling from top puddle | Sheet glass fall on fall through | In fire | Match head explosion | 2 car bang!
Storyboard The teams then went out to scout for locations in and around the At-Bristol site. They had to decide which scene and location to use for their Time-slice effect as this would be the start point for the following team's story.
They then presented their ideas for a film as a storyboard. Team A
Team D
Props : Arrow, wallpaper paste, silica gel, pulley thing, sawdust, chalk Abbreviations: CU: Close-up Projector, video player & laptop not on desk first thing and Andy not there to ask. Collect video player from marketing and Andy from IT hands me laptop and digi stills cameras on my way past. (Slow start despite prior planning). Tim has lots of equipment and we all help carry it up to John James room. Students are now waiting outside so I ask mentors to read this sheet while I go down & collect them. Tamsin helped to do a preliminary register downstairs in foyer and sorted out visitor stickers with dates for week. We have 13 of the expected 20. Do another register to make sure that everyone who was downstairs is now upstairs. I rearrange groups slightly to even out numbers. They seem to do a bit of re-arranging themselves, but I don't notice. Jason Poole
Gavin Skinner
I had to write what I see and do in my dreams for ideas of the movie. Mahbubur Rahman Auntie - hair number 402 under Paul Merton's left armpit. Friend - random leprachaun offering savoury foods. Today we put all our ideas down and started a story board ready for filming. Ayeshah Smith
Each group explained what their story is and how their time-slice will link with the next groups story. Adam showed them all an example storyboard. He asked them to do a neat & very specific version of their storyboard. They did this. We also asked them to make a list of props needed and agreed who was bringing them in. This I made sure was being filmed so that we can inter-cut it with the final film in with the 'making of' documentary. Explained running order of following day. Forgot, (despite reminder from Gavin) to get the students to write in their journals. Jason Poole |
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On Tuesday we started filming and that was quite good
the highlights of the week where being able to go on the rides for free
all you had to do was flash your badge and they let you on. Olubumi Balogun-Adeola
I get a list of filming locations for each group from mentors. A - Time-slice in water fountains, Film in IMAX stairwell & hamster
wheel in Explore. This list could have been drawn up at the end of Monday at the same
time we were making a note of props needed. This would have given me
a little time to pre-empt the logistical problems. Jason Poole
Liam Flack
I enjoyed being a superstar, starring in the film I was the biggest star in the whole film. Matrix(I am the one) Rich Hall Today we finished the story boards and started filming. We were also able to complete our time slices. We done a couple of takes of the café scene with me and bami. I wasn't very interested in this stage. Ayeshah Smith
I was the character being chased in this wacky dream by a strange man in a black hood. I learned how the actual time-slice is constructed and how to put it together on the computer. I had already knew Jess because she is in the same school but Zanab was from St George school so, there were three in my group excluding Dave the mentor. Didn't like the idea of wearing this certain pair of yellow and pink flippers!!but I didn't care. Liam Flack
Day 2 was our first day of shooting the footage. We first went up Park Street, looking for the "Silica Gel", which after we got it,we did a test & it failed. The day was not a really good day but I got a time slice picture of myself doing a star jump. Tomorrow we should do most of the shooting. Mahbubur Rahman
Cut up the first batch of digital photos to use as thumbnails for the 'who made it' and 'who helped' pages. Made a new web page for people to select their favourite pictures. Helped carry the scaffold pole loaded with cameras down to Millennium Square. Went to switch on the fountains. Shots were taken beside the Aquarena, with blue screen in the square or under the Explore balcony after it started raining. The final time-slice of the day was shot in the Wildwalk family café. Collected all the digital cameras to grab all the pictures for the website & archives. Gavin Skinner
I ask everyone to be aware of health & safety issues. Lifts, stairs running etc. I explain the complications that I had today and that tomorrow each group will need to finish shooting their film. Group D to get straight on with stairwell but around IMAX times. Group D are having problems with digital stills camera batteries. The first set of films are ready for processing & because we are ahead Tim thinks it would be good to get them back early on Wednesday so we can start putting them together, giving any groups who have finished shooting something to do. Jason Poole |
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Today was the day we started filming eventually. We had no chance to film on day 2 because all the cameras had been taken; we filmed everything in one day which went quite well in the end. Not only we did the footage for the movie we had to draw our name up big on a piece of card then do a time slice picture, this would be in the credits. This was my day. I think the best part of the day was seeing how to do the scene when we had to suspend the camera inside the spiral staircase and with a pulley we reeled the camera down. Mahbubur Rahman
I have enjoyed most of this week @Bristol, such as using the camcorder and finding locations to use in the film, Dave our mentor had to take part in the role as the guy being pushed down on a bridge then running for his life. Liam Flack
The best day was wednesday because everything went perfect. We were all getting along with each other. Zanab Illyas
Today we finished our filming. We changed me in the café scenes to Ashley as I was not wanting to act in this. We all got very cold doing the outside shots but very much enjoyed it. Ayeshah Smith
Did some more work on the website and collected some more of the thumbnail photos. Got everyone to select their favourite picture of themselves for the website from the ones I'd cropped from the digital camera shots. A major 'Special Effects' shot involved lowering one of our expensive cameras on a rope down the Wildwalk spiral staircase from the fourth floor to the ground. This was done using a pulley attached to a scaffold pole, held steady by a couple of tripods on one side and the top stair on the other. The finished footage was fantastic. Gavin Skinner Maggie suggests using a thin film of saturated salt solution on glass to make it look like ice is forming. Thanks Maggie!!!. I ask the groups to write their name on a piece of card for the title shot. The other groups are getting unruly. It is almost impossible for me to get the groups together for the title shots. Finally we have title shots & I send Dan to collect first set of films & hand over today's time-slice films. The films come back. Due to a power cut on Tuesday their machine got film reference numbers mixed up and three of our films returned on the CD are someone else's wedding photos! Jason Poole |
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Computers weren't exactly what I was looking forward to do, but I have to, to get through to what I want to do. Zanab Illyas We had no sound so my group had to make our own sounds using all sorts of instruments to go with our film, though it was very loud it was fun. Liam Flack Today Deasy came in to do sound. I enjoyed this part as did all the others. We completed all our sound effects. Ayeshah Smith
Met Deasy and helped take her instruments up to the John James room in the Wildwalk building. With the other mentors, we made as much noise as possible to check the soundproofing of the ARKive theatre next door where a corporate event was happening that morning. The soundproofing was fine though a corporate man did complain that it was a bit noisy in the lobby outside where they were having coffee. Hugh Thomas of EAZ turned up so I managed to collar him about his contribution to the website. I was a bit busy during the day to take part in the course though in the evening I typed up the storyboards for the website and unloaded the cameras of pictures taken during the day of the music workshops and time-slice computer work. Gavin Skinner
First I ask everyone to get into their groups. I ask the mentors to find a space and the groups to gather around them. I explain that I have had enough of the mucking about, and that so have the rest of At-Bristol. Today they will be in two rooms the John James & this one the Ada computer room. They are not to leave these rooms without a mentor. There is a corporate function going on next to the John James room and that there is PGCE training going on in the RG room next door. Lunch will be 12:30 - 13:30. There will be a premier of the final film in the Imaginarium (We hope) on the 4th Dec. You are all welcome to come along, dressed up if you want. This is your film, if you don't put the effort in, you won't get the results you want. Any questions. Jason Poole |
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Try to find somewhere quiet for sound recording. Use the studio. Find
out about importing stuff onto AVID over the network. Will do next week
once Interpolating has been done using Tim's super software. We will
receive it either on Beta or as TIFF Seq or as Quicktime. Probably easier
if we get a Beta tape. Mentors & Tutors arrive. We move the sound
things into the Studio. Jason Poole
This week has been interesting exploring @Bristol working with new
people and filming on cameras. And a well good experience. Planning
ideas and making this all happened today. The people I have been working
with: Neil, Dan, Daniel a lot they have been excellent working with
us in our group, helping us out and everything else. But now we have
to wait and see how the film is going to be. All the people are really
good working in time-slice. Reetesh Hurnath WHO I WORKED WITH. I worked with lots of different people *MENTORS *Joanna was very helpful and was friendly too. I didn't get to know her that much because she wasn't in for most of the week but if I was asked who to have as a permanent mentor for time slice I would choose Joanna. *Mina was in for just one day with our group but hopefully that days work didn't go well enough. *Kim again was in for just one day i didn't get to know her either but I enjoyed working with her.
*Jessica Hodge *I reckon that Jessica is a very co- operative person to work with she knows exactly what she has to do. *Liam is the weird one he was the actor who had to wear pink & yellow flippers. And he truly didn't know how to run. Zanba Illyas What I have learnt from the week
Matrix(I am the one) Rich H Working with time-slice @ Bristol has been a very rewarding
experience, I mostly enjoyed doing the acting for the film I found it
very exciting, and I enjoyed watching the result of the time-slice.
I learnt how they do the time-slice, and how to edit it
On Monday 28th October to Friday 1st November I went to
at Bristol to make and film a film . At first it was quite boring when
we where doing the storyboard and coming up with ideas but as the week
progressed things got more interesting. Olubumi Balogun-Adeola
I thank everyone & the mentors say that I think it looks good & I look forward to seeing them on the 4th Dec. Students go home. Mentors & Tutors discuss. Neil Bailey & Tim Lea will edit the
making of documentary. Jason Poole
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