Lemon Video - A Chance Encounter

We were given a brief which was to make a silent five minute film entitled a Chance Encounter. The week that we were given the brief, only me and tom was in lecture. So because of this me and tom brain stormed ideas around the title itself. We had several ideas which included balloon and a pin. However we agreed that this would be too short. Another idea was a toast and toaster, the idea behind this was to have the bread having a chance encounter with the toaster. This again would of been too short. We wanted to do something random. As we overheard that other groups were making more serious so we wanted to lighten this up.

As the others didn't know about mine and toms idea. I sent the others the treatment over facebook. This is the treatment.

First scene - will consist of the lemon travelling around the kitchen, its quite happy with itself.

Second Scene - will be the lemon meeting another fruit or vegetable.
Third scene - the vegetable warns him that the chef is about. starts to shake in fear
Four scene - He tries to hide however the chef spots him.
Fifth scene - the lemon is running away from the chef across the work surface. He comes across obstacles along his way.
Six scene - the chef is trying to stab him with a knife.
Seventh scene - the chef finally catches up with him and cuts him in half.

I asked if the others would produce there own storyboard as then we would have different ideas from the original treatment. The next session concluded of our group showing our different ideas for the lemon idea. I produced my own storyboard which consisted of seven scenes. I showed this to the rest of my group. We decided to come up a story board from all of our ideas. We changed the idea slightly of having the lemons having a dance and one getting away from the chef and hiding. This would make the film more entertaining. The next step was to think of materials that we would need to produce this. Our items were fishing wire, blue tac, faces, needle and lemons of course.

We used Milly's flat for the filming as she has quite a big kitchen. Tom was the camera man, Milly was the chef and me and Jodie was in control of the lemons. The first task was to attach the fishing wire to the lemons which proved to be more difficult that first expected. We used the needle to thread the fishing wire through the top of the lemon. It took us about 2 hours to film. When we played back the video, I was in stitches. It was hilarious. The film itself was very rough but the frames worked well. If I was to do this project again I would spend more time planning the film itself and also I would of liked to use a tri pod as then our shots would of been less shaky. This would also give other team members to move the lemons as I found that we didn't have enough people to control the lemons properly. But I do feel with the amount of time that we was given, we produced a quite good piece of filming.