Looking back at year 1 which was about the class been divided into four groups assigned with each rotation. The four rotations Object, Film, Interaction and Publish, given with some keywords to build up a base for each rotation. Developing each assignments keeping in mind the city Norwich along with the rotation briefs requirements was really thrilling. One thing that captures my mind about last year is the change of course from Graphic Design to Illustration. And about how being introduced to illustration was such a different thing from what I had been known about the subject. Illustration is more than just creating images that do not require attention from a viewer to a specific object while graphics was to drive a viewer’s attention to a view point.

Illustration being such a wide subject had given me a chance to explore with all the mediums that I wouldn’t have myself tried like making films to narrate. The rotation film last year was really challenging. As much as I was thrilled to make film with Norwich as a plot I was even more nervous.

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Telling a story or even conveying a message through image or text could make the individual imagine and think. The challenge here was to do the same through a film. Just like any other medium I realized film is a very vast subject its more than having to take some videos and editing them to have a story. How films can more easily convey subtleties in emotion, visuals, and atmosphere. All verbal techniques present in literature can be presented through films today.

 

This really stressed me out in the beginning of the rotation. Looking at other students work often made me nervous. After attending the premiere sessions, I knew that I could do it but its difficult to put in a story through a camera and telling something that I would want the audience to get out of the film. The more I panicked was the more I researched about films and how are the methods of story telling are different to films from still images. Every time looking at a stop motion film would really excite me and make me want to try out, and it would not turn out the way I want in the end.
 

The closer I would want to complete with my story and have something to show for the tutorial is more I would block and have no idea what to do because it had to be done as a film. Later I understood it was as simple as to something that is still image. With film it is moreover easier to convey the message because the viewer will also experience a visual story which will help them to connect better.
Just playing around with the story I had chosen to do, I discovered it was actually a very creative way to narrate when a viewer can experience the emotions in the film.

 

To make the film the story has to be presented as a series of events like a piece of text, and then images with sounds that are of such interest and novelty to an audience that they become fully engaged in the film. So I decided to make my film on how the characters are enjoying there visit to the Norwich Castle and how their visit to the historical monument turns out to be. I learnt that storytelling through film is every effective when its built on stories with experience. There isn't a single set of rules that I could have learnt or achieved to make this film but how much I owned the whole process of engaging myself into something completely new. Even though I wasn’t satisfied with how it turned out to be in the end which made me very nervous for the presentation day.

 

After the Film Presentation when I had seen how other students had worked on their film I realized that I wasn’t really happy how I had just made my film to make it as a part of the project but to convey any meaning to myself and so I decided to reshoot it.
 

This time I was somewhat sure about what I wanted to do and how, so I sketched the scenes and created a story board about how things should follow each other and how I could capture the natural experience of the characters and their emotions through the film, without asking them to do anything that I wanted to have on the film. All of these different scenes and thoughts then are joined together into an overall construction of the film, that then starts making sense. This made the film look more realistic. I learned that while making the film the story needs to be strongly organized and based around a single plot that will interest the audience and keep their concentration, also that one thing that leads to another should also have connection in between. I am not sure if I was happy with the final film that I handed in but I know I will be excited if I will have to make the film again.

Next time I would want to start it calm with noting down simple ideas and then taking them forward rather then rushing to the first thought that runs through my mind. Look at other short films and work of filmmakers because that can teach me a lot about small details I was missing out till now. And most importantly the story, I would want to focus more on my story rather than panicking about how it is being told.