New Treatment

We are hoping to create 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.

For our nature scenes, we are hoping to go to Grindleford, where the nature there in the Peak District is diverse and beautiful and it will create a stunning contrast to the industrial parts of our film. We are hoping to get shots of the river, some of the trees- and we are hoping to go early morning to get the sunrising in the trees. Amy also has some footage from Qatar which is some gorgeous underwater fish footage that we are hoping to use, alongside some archive 8mm film footage of her father and her aunt from their childhood.

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.

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. Climate change is an issue that is widely debated but in the forefront of the minds of everyone living in the world. It is something that is highlighted as one of the most important issues to be tackled by the world, due to the fact that if it is not helped then there will be no more nature as human expansion has become far too widespread- something we hope to show in our piece.

The sound for our piece will be composed of both nature sounds and the sounds of industrialisation. This will mean having to do some foley sounds, perhaps with some metallic items such as barbed wire or kitchen pots and pans to make violent, clanging noises for our film. For our nature sounds, perhaps water and the sounds of leaves- these are soft sounds which will highlight just how different the two really are, and that is the entire message to our film. This composed soundtrack made of these sounds and hopefully some additional will be thought provoking and hopefully just help to serve our film.

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.

Another inspiration for our film would be 'Rezign Live' by David Myriam, although his split screen is a more visual interpretation of the juxtaposition we are wanting to show, the message is still the same. Climate change, and also 'industry vs. nature' is a central theme of Rezign Live and the influence of this film is something that we all looked at and agreed we wanted the message of our film to be similar. We also found landscape photographer called Mike Curry inspirational because of his ways of capturing industrial shots showing climate issues in a beautiful picturesque manner. 

We are looking forward to creating our film and are excited to work on a subject that we all feel so strongly about.