Our team planned to create a multimedia application that would include three specially filmed segments. Our theme was initially "street life", which we developed and expanded carefully. We decided that the term "street life" could apply to the indifference of people when walking past those who suffer in the street. An example is the ease with which people avoid the homeless when in a major city such as London. We then placed this on a global scale and looked for examples of similar traits: we compared this indifference with that of an average persons indifference to wars in far of places. We used this as a basis for our project.
Initially we started by filming different groups of people in the street of Canterbury. We also several different approaches such as running with the camera and shooting from the tops of buildings.
Due to the nature of our project and how we intended the final result to look, we did not plan the shoot before starting. We selected key areas to film and moved between them in order to create a very fluid, very dynamic series of films created solely by the events of the day.
The result was a range of exciting footage featuring real people and locations, ranging from homeless people, people with disabilities, happy people, sad people as well as beautiful pans across rooftops and interesting shots of real places.
I spent many long hours trawling through the footage, selecting clips and editing it together using outlines drawn up in discussions and developing our initial ideas based on what we had available. I concentrated on looking at individual people in the crowd scenes, picking out those people that looked as if they had a story to tell, or those whose upset and misery was displayed clearly on their faces. I found many suitable people who unintentionally helped us in dramatic ways - a homeless man singing on the street, a lady in a wheelchair and so forth.
Whilst I developed the movies, the remainder of my group worked on the application and on finding photographs of wars that could be mixed in to the final film. I wrote the narration and edited the footage together sticking roughly to our initial plan but also adding a great deal. Due to the way our project was planned it was a very dynamic job creating the final edits. We then selected the music and attempted to record the narration. Due to a series of technical faults the recording of the final narration was delayed until the early hours of one morning. This caused us to slip back in our schedule and so re-recording of the commentaries was not possible. This was very unfortunate as the first two commentaries are very poor due to equipment failure as well as pressure to complete the task in time.
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