360 Tracking Shot

The 360 tracking shot was made famous by Quentin Tarantino, who made this his trademark shot. The shot involves the camera rotating around the area of action in a circular 360 degrees motion shot. The effect of this is that you as the audience feel like part of the action as you are seeing the action from all sides. 

Getting the best results with the 360 tracking shot involves using a fixed track with the camera built onto a slider which can be moved manually around the action. This makes the camera movent more stable and gives the camera man more control in the speed at which they travel around the action. This video is an example of a 360 tracking shot using a built tack, in an indoor dance film shoot.

This shot is something that we are looking into using as a group as we feel that it will allow us to engage the audience and tell a story in a way that they may have never seen before. 

Inspiration

Whilst researching examples of experimental film I came across these three films that I thought stood out and will potentially influence the kind of film that me and my team might end up making.

Fluidity

This film is interesting as the concept is very simple, dye is injected using a pipet into a clear tank of water and the reaction is filmed. Using sound and edditing they were able to show the process in reverse and add effects to potentially make the images stronger.

The Ting

This brilliant shrt film was part of the Urban Film Festival in 2003, and is a wonderfully funny. The creators have made a dark situtation humerous by adding subtitles to london based slang english, which i think is hillarious! The plot is straight forward and not hard to understand. 

Box

                                           

The box is a film that i am particularly interested in as I have thought for a long time about working with projections and in particular interacting with the projections. This is a perfectly timed piece, every part moving in sink with one another to create a wonderful film. 

Group Selection : Experimental Pure and Simple

An introduction to Experimental Film

So this semester we have been given the task of creating our own experimental short film. This film can be anything we like as long as it fits within one of the experimental film strands, which are:

1. Experimental film: pure and simple
2. Experimental Documentary: the Art of story telling
3. Screen dance: in collaboration with dance, dirty dancing.
4. Fashion Film: the new Avant-garde?
5. Time-lapse and related concepts: the wonder of the impossible.

Once decided we then have to split into groups of 4/5 people that are also interested in the same strand of experimental film as myself. Looking at the options above and from the our first lecture i am drawn to two of the following strands (1 and 2).

Pure and simple is nice and easy, it will give me scope to make any kind of film I'd like. However i fear that without structure or any rules to obide by as a group we may stray far from the experimental film path. I can imagine that everyone in the group will have different ideas about what kind of film they'd like to make.

I have always wanted to make a documentary and it is an opportunity to make a film about something important going on in the world at the moment. This would also potentially give me the opportunity to travel and meet with important people working in the area the documentary may be about. I think it would allow me the opportunity to make a real difference on the ground and work to spread the word about a certain cause.