Research & Work Based Practice - Learner Agreement

My learner agreement...

I have decided to make a video to show feeling alone and lost. Lost in life and in your head. This piece will have a lot of meaning to me, my life so far and as it continues. I have decided I need to do this as it might help to express how I feel I have felt over the years but never been able to make other see or understand it. I have decided use my daughter as the model again as she will represent me as a child. Photographers use their skills and photographs to represent themselves as well as their feelings. It is seen as art and can help people to have a view of their world and their thoughts. The lonely place that I went to as a child is one which is truly misunderstood and can be looked over very easily. I think me doing this could help those who have had a 'great' upbringing (if there is such a thing) to look at things through my eyes and see that even children can go to the lonely places at times in their lives. 

There are two downsides and they are if I cannot get the models together for the park scene and if my daughter decides she doesn't want to help me. In which case I think I will have no choice but to find an adult to represent me instead.

If the first one works I will look at moving straight onto the final piece, if not I will plan a second test shoot. Once I am happy it will work I will shoot the final. Then it will be all about the editing and processing in Premiere. This program is complex compared with photoshop to me as I do not know it very well however I will be able to look at online tutorials to help me along and I can ask tutors for help if I get really stuck. The video will be shown either on a tv or via projector. This piece will have music to go with it or at least sounds. I would love to be able to pair a piece of piano music to what I will create as it is another passion of mine which if people know me they will already know that. 

I want to make sure I have plenty of time for post production work. It is crucial I get it right and have plenty of time for errors or retakes of certain parts if it doesn't look right for whatever reason. 

Story line : 

There will be two sides to the piece, one being my daughter portraying a young happy playful child and then withdrawing from the world into the shadows. The piece will start in colour where I'd like it to my model to walk to the park followed by the view of a child from behind running away from the camera to the swings to play, going round on a roundabout, going down the slide. I want there to be other children playing on the park and parents stood around, I'd like my model to be in focus and the rest blurry. I would then like to have the children and parents to disappear one by one until the model is left on her own. I want my models face to remain hidden to bring a little mystery to the piece. As the parents and children disappear I'd like it to change from colour and be de saturated until it is black and white. I want the child to be left on the swing, swinging slowly and looking from side to side. 

I then want her to run off the park to look for people but find no one not even a parent. Next she would be running through the gardens at the park and out to where there is a line of trees. She will go and sit under one of the tree with her head down resting on the top of her knees.
I would take the camera around the base of the trunk a full 360 degrees and then stop on the model again. Finally t a hand would come from the side to the childs hand, she would look up, smile and see a familiar face come to help her. the last scene would be them walking towards home together holding hands.