(behind the scenes)VJ Exegesis

The AQUARIUM DISASTER, i really enjoyed filming this one. Probably because Mayu was pretty enjoyable to work with. So even even though its pretty inappropriate for a exegesis i want to give a shout out to Mayu!

For pre-production we came up with alot of ideas about what kind of film we were going to shoot. At once it had to have a interesting location, be simple but not boring, and work with the theme of disaster o matter how big or small the problem would have been. So we ended up with the idea of a missing person kind of film, where throughout clues are sprinkled throughout the film that kind of builds and builds the climax until the final reveal. Originally we were supposed to shoot the film at the zoo, but then we thought of many of the sound as setting problems that would have come up due to the differing zoo containments (and also the zoo is surprisingly expensive these days which is bad for struggling students like us!).

So instead we filmed at the city/aquarium which was easy enough, though we did end up running into some problems. To begin with the aquarium so actually a lot more dull then it sets out to be, in the film it looks like it is a nice fluro blue. BUT in reality it was more of dull kind of pale. Also we didn’t anticipate to much the idea of the ‘school holidays’ being in session so that made filming just a little harder. The story itself was fine but filming some of the clues within the aquarium setting became challenging, so some on the shoot pre production was again needed.

Though all of these problems ended up being quite small compared to our biggest problem which was the sound not recording. This was really heartbreaking in post as when we log and captured the footage and no sound came up we knew we had to start all the sound from scratch all over again. This was really challenging and required an almost ten hour day.

The end product of the film visually i was quite happy with, i think the blues and depth in color really look nice when we changed it in post. The story itself became a little confused at points but we originally didn’t set out to make it overly serious so it ended up being very light hearted which was nice.
The sound though…even though we worked so hard on it still came out rough ( i think the version on youtube is missing some sounds because they didn’t export properly). I think if i had had a week to work on purely the sound i could’ve come up with something alot more interesting and cohesive to the story.

So besides the sound i really did have a good time working on this film. actually filming it and putting it together was really enjoyable and was one of my first tastes into the realm of editing.