Edale Project

We both already had a pretty precice idea of what we wanted to film and the style in which we would shoot this short film. The Storyboards remained quite loose because of the fact that we had never been to Edale before so we had to improvise on a few occasions, which turned out too be a good thing as it made gathering the footage feel like something of an accomplishment. We drew influence in our filming from recently watching a film "The Wrestler" and tried to add a few shots that emulated the style of Jim Jarmusch in the way that some long shots would linger or have the actor walk in and out of the same shot. White balancing the shot was incredibly difficult against the sky on the XM2 as the sky was actually bright white/very bright grey when we were shooting and taking too much of the brightness out seemed to distort the rest of the shot. I found that the location to be even more impressive than I had imagined and made the shots look even more impressive. The scale of the location around us helped to create a feeling that the Hiker in our film was lost in the middle of nowhere. We used a lot of long shots not only to capture the breathtaking surroundings but also to show the audience just how small the Protagonist was and I thought that was something the audience could relate too, especially if they have ever been lost in the same way. The thing I liked most from this film was the over the shoulder or close up shots that we used a gradually increasing amount of "shakey-cam" to achieve. The gradually more irrational camera movement was to create a sense of increasing panic and I think it came off really well on the footage and was well worth the effort of walking backwards without being able to see what I was stepping on.