Hard Ball Behind The Scenes

Evaluation

I made this piece as an extra to a short film that I photographed. I recorded sound as well as taking photographs, and this piece reflects the overall atmosphere of the set. Not busy, but productive and quiet. The short film is about a boy whose dad is ignoring him and goes to the pub instead of giving him attention. The boy and his friend put bricks in a football and leave it outside a pub for his dad to kick when he walks out, drunk.

When I got told the outline for this film, the first pictures I had in my head were feature films such as This is England, Billy Elliot, and Dead Mans Shoes. I imagined the colours to be slightly washed out and desaturated, but not so much that it just looks grey and dull. The English working class style film with orangey reds, grey blacks and grainy.

So from having this image of what this film would look like, I decided to make this piece using stills and sound my interpretation of final images. With all the images, I increased the saturation and contrast slightly and then adjusted the primary colours curves until I was happy with the image I had. Then I added a black border with a vignette fade towards the edges.

If I got the chance to do this assignment again, I would take some more time thinking of the structure of the piece. I’m very happy with the presentation of the images but the progression of the video is slightly disjointed. But overall I am happy with how I came up with this idea and my work pace. I liked working on my own for the majority of the time

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