So yesterday Jake came up to my house and using a black sheet and some dedo lights we recreated the studio aesthetic so that we could film the boxes full of props that we did not have on Friday's shoot. I do think we used adequate props to create the stereotype however Jake thought for time and visual reasons we should not shoot the scenes through box holes like my planned footage. This was something Johnny also wasn't keen on a few days before so I let it go, however on reflection I think it would have added to the aesthetic of the piece and without it all of the camera work editing and messages will be fairly conventional and my masking idea with the boxes being thrown out takes a lot of the experimental aspect away from the film. I also think that we are struggling with scheduling throughout this project and while this is my responsibility there have been multiple times when the other crew members just have not been there, as well as Johnny's trip abroad that left me and Jake to plan the project. since then I feel Johnny hasn't been engaged with the projects concepts and is struggling to understand the different ideas me and Jake have and as a result of this the ideas he is agreeing with are the more conventional ideas. Could it be that our experimental piece ends up outside "boundaries of experimental" and lands in a neat little conventional, ironic "box"?
Over the next two days Johnny will be finishing the edit and me and Jake will be recording a script he has written for a dialogue to go over the piece which will hopefully add to the effectiveness of the film and make the conventional camera work and regrettably small range of visuals more interesting.
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