"Sometimes you don't realise you're working too much..."
A short film created specially for the fixed theme of "The wheels went round" for the Chairman's Challenge at Huddersfield Film Makers Club, October 2011.
Although the upcoming Chairman's Challenge had been known of for some months, it didn't feel like a proper challenge if we couldn't cram all the work into the final 10 days before the show. It was at this point that I, and my semi-reluctant star Dave, realised we had just one weekend left.
I cobbled together the basic premise of the story and drew up a storyboard, only the second time I had bothered to do so. I thought it would be useful to tick off shots once they were in the can* but it was also very handy to ensure shots followed-on from one another and didn't look too disjointed. And of course I looked very professional, so much so that I left the beret at home.
We shot during Saturday and Sunday and I spent the next four evenings beavering away at the computer. There was a lot of time consuming post-production effort for a modest project like this one but the deadline really helped to spur me on. By this time Dave's work was done and he was relaxing in his trailer.**
Shot on a Canon 600D digital SLR with Rode VideoMic. Raw footage was transcoded to Apple Intermediate Codec using MPEG Streamclip. Edited in Final Cut Pro, transferred to After Effects using BasicFCPtoAE, where graphics were composited and shots were colour graded.
* I keep all my camera memory cards in a biscuit tin.
** Dave lives in a trailer. The house in the film has been empty for months so we helped ourselves. We call it 'being resourceful.'
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