Main Project Experimental Film Treatment

We have decided to combine ideas for our experimental film and shoot an almost 'nature vs. industrial' film. We are planning to film shots of nature, in areas such as Grindleford- we are also planning to use a GoPro to shoot some down stream shots. We will also be going to Drax power plant to make use of the industrial landscape, and on the way back in the dark film some motorway shots. 

For the sounds we were wanted some archive sounds of children playing and laughing to juxtapose the imagery of the industrial landscape. Nature sounds will also be a likely accompaniment, and since the workshop on scratching film we have been wanting to use a clockwork camera for the sounds that they create to use in our piece.

Treatment

 

'Innocence of Youth'

A short film showing a collective shots of landscapes from urban and rural that show the difference between the two settings; showing the environment and how it changes the world we live in. We want to incorporate archive footage of a family home video linking the idea to our title with the children of today being over taken by the world and not seeing things the way they should; in the country getting more of a sense of life. It will show the comparison of the two worlds which separate the world we live in, distorting the two settings between each other.

The industrial places we feel will capture our idea well will be, Sheffield steelworks, motorways, city buildings and power stations (Newark or Drax). The other locations will be mostly filmed in and around Grindleford which is located just outside Sheffield in the countryside. We will start with the sounds and imagery of children and the countryside, before moving onto the industrial half of the film, where the film will now be interspersed with images of archive and industry.

Here are some images of nature which we would like to capture in the film:

 

 

 

 

We will be using DSLR cameras and maybe a Go-Pro for the motorway industrial scenes that we plan to film. The go-pro will be very handy for this, and will be versatile for the shots we are hoping to get outside of the moving car. We are hoping to shoot this particular scene on the way back from the filming at the power plant and then if we don’t get enough footage for this, on another day. We are hoping that the piece will be thought provoking, and will make the audience question about the human impact on the Earth’s ecosystems and biomes that are slowly being destroyed and changed because of our species.

This juxtaposition between nature and industrial is one that we have looked at in many short films such as ‘Foxes’ by Lorcan Finnegan. The way industrialisation brushes up against nature is something that can’t be ignored and that will be apparent in our film. Colour will also be important, so we will be trying to get as much of the colour palette of nature vs. the colour palette of man-made structures is something vital. This should get the main theme of our film across in quite a concise way to the viewer, there will be no way that it could be mistaken.