Edale initial planning

Our initial idea for the shoot was to follow the everyday life of a binman in Edale as he picks up rubbish. Initially he enjoys his day but the increasing flow of rubbish makes him angry so he goes to quit for the day but finds a long trail of rubbish which leads him up to a beautiful picnic on top of a hill.

However, what I found whilst storyboarding was that it lacked a complication of some sort as well as this we found that there was no reason for the audience to connect with the viewer other than pity; so we re-wrote the piece in order to give the character some humanity, adding a lunch break and the idea of hidden beauty. We liked the idea of the binman seeing what is widely regarded as a beautiful place, as solely a place of work, encouraging us to look for a relatively picturesque ending shot to fade out to.

what follows are some early storyboards for the project following the re-write.

The storyboards proved useful on the day for making minor changes, e.g. to shot length, as we then knew how long the subsequent takes were and got a sense for the pace of editing. Due to the awkward weather some of the storyboards did get a bit wet and incomprehensible so much so that they aren't really worth uploading.

We did encounter some scheduling errors on the day, having to walk back up into a wooded hill to re-shoot a scene wherein the rain cover (carrier bag) had crept into shot, but apart from that and the accompanying illness, the filming was rather successful. I will admit, in retrospective view we didn't remember to White Balance everyshot, some shots with the sky in-frame seem relatively over-exposed; however, these shots seem to work inadvertantly work in our favor to form a rather bleak outlook through the film.