Filming from an Animal's point of view idea

This post is about filming the "Cat Photographer story".

In the news article, the cat was given a simple camera, but for a film, they could be given a film camera.

The short film could be entirely from the cat's perspective and could tell a quirky story, perhaps passing by many human characters who all see the cat and react in different ways.

The film could be shot without a tripod and via just moving and turning the camera along and could be an interesting character piece.

Here are some shots from the original photographer cat, which could lead to visually stunning shots that could be included into the film.

Helium Balloons story board ideas

So con tinueing form this story idea, I looked at ways the more abstract version of this story could look by making some storyboard/concept images of the cinematography that could be used to tell thios story.

First there is the start of the story. Here, I wanted to make sure an important shot of a calandar is shown, to show how the protagonist is looking forward to a certain day. We don;t know what this day is initially, but it being highlighted is significant. Furthermore the colours are warmer in this shot.

Secondly, we have this scene where the protagonist comes home after a seemingly average day. We see this shot from a different angle which makes it look jarring and strange. The colours here are also much darker and washed out giving a creepy atmosphere to the scene and making it obvious that something is now wrong.

 Nest there is this scene where the person goes into the room filled with balloons, all of different colours. This room is purposefully very plain and looks clean and neat, and the brightly coloured balloons are meant to look almost cheery. However, it's also an unsettling perfection and very surreal after the previous scene of the person coming into the house and is again meant to unsettle the audience.

Furthermore, after the entry into the sitting room, there should be focuses on the different balloons and the notes attached to them, each saying happy birthday or some kind of message to the departed child.

An Interesting scene

This is actually a location in barking, and very close to my school.

Secluded, picturesque places like this are ideal for a unique environment to film it.

Using models

While visiting Hamleys, I came across this toy train set with a full model village.

After taking a few pictures, I realized that using a model house could be a an excellent way of getting an establishing shot without having to move the camera to an extremely high place to get it.

This way we could also avoid continuity issues and adjust the lighting so that it could be the time of day that we would have liked for our film.

Something like this could also lead to a surreal or strange story and help with making the film look more creative.