Early drafts

I have spent the last week in Estonia on a very important busman’s holiday. Given the lack of evening entertainment I was expecting to be able to put together the first version of my movie. However I appeared to be easily distracted in the evenings

As a consequence I didn’t manage to get as far as I hoped.

However I have managed to put together first versions of two (out of 5) of the video scenes.

Scene 1

Below is the opening scene. A variety of rewrites of the script has made this scene quite a bit shorter. Therefore a lot of the shots I took are redundant.

There are many aspects of this first scene that I am not sure about. This first scene is meant to set the story, it establishes where we start from but I am not sure the ‘flow’ is right. This may be a consequence of the editing it has undergone. Of interest is the transition between ‘music’ shot and me sitting on a chair looking over Kendal. I understand that transitions should not ‘fade’ but I felt this needed a transition that helped move the viewer from a ‘memory’ of the narrator, to the present day. Another ‘theme’ I am trying to establish here is the use of signs. These will be used throughout the film.

Scene 5

This is the final scene. It was shot in Estonia. Like Scene 1 I ended up shooting far more takes than I actually used. This is a common theme in me overestimating the number of different shots I can use over the narration.

It is worth noting that the software I am using to edit this video is one called LumaFusion on IPad. Whilst it is not as powerful as Adobe I find it much easier to work on and is more flexible (for instance scene 5 was edited on the plane coming home from Estonia).