Contextualise this!

I guess I need to discuss the contex for my peice, and I think the best way would be to start with my original idea, i've now scrapped...

the original plan was to do something very much in vein of Robjn taylor

with the intention of making a quirky off the wall peice. But thats as far as that idea went, it seemed to be a long build up to a "meh" punchline.
The Matchmoving would consist of the toaster floating around the room, then out the door.
I felt that having an object floating about, with little visual cues to it's location would simply look "floaty" and wouldnt sell very well.

So after thinking about how I could change it, I came up with changing the idea almost completely, while being able to add more context to the peice.


So the new plan is to make a zero budget "mock buster", a mockbuster is a peice that attempts to copy a much higher budget peice both in story and visual effects.  Examples of this can be found in:

TransMorphers

Snakes on a train

Shark attack

So the plan is to make a knock-off of Cloverfield...

The reason i chose to go for cloverfield, is that it takes a "hand held" shot approach to the films, with some jarring motion. Because, as ive mentioned before ive struggled to get smooth shots that don't look hand held, I thought that if i cant hide the fact im shooting by hand, I should try and make it a feature.

This enables me to worry slightly less about the smoothness of the shots, from a cinematography standpoint...
Though obviously, I need smooth footage to enable the software to track.