Day Two- 13.12.15
Day 3- 14.12.15
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I have created a mood board to represent what our short film will be about with just using a collection of images I got from the internet. By using images to show what our film is about this is a visual way for the audience to understand the rough plot and they get an insight into what happens in the film.
We created a Twitter page to promote our film as social media is a great way to advertise and market our short film for free and is great if production companies are on a low budget. As our short film is targeted at teenagers we feel that using social media can help us connect with our target audience successfully. After our audience sees the short film they may choose to share their thoughts on social media which will lead to their friends being influenced to watch the film.
We asked some people that we know, who have acting backgrounds, if they could send us a video of themselves performing a small part of the script. This allowed us to see how well they came across on camera, and how they interpreted the characters. This is Ashley. We liked her audition, but felt that she was more suited to the character of Amy, who is the main character. Amy does't speak much, because her character is mostly on her own, but there is a lot of acting to portray the emotion to the audience, and we feel that Ashley would be well suited to this. This is Chloe. We liked the audition, feeling that she portrayed this particular character very well. We think we will have her as Harriet. This is Josie. This is also a very good audition, and we feel that she plays the victim part of Anna very well. We therefore want to cast Josie as the part of Anna.
This is our shooting schedule for our short film as we need to have a clear schedule in order to be organised. This will help us remember when we are filming and what actors we will need to contact for each day. We have also listed the props that we will be bringing so we don't forget to bring anything with us when filming. I have also written down the locations that we will be using.
While planning for our short film, I watched someone else's short film, which is roughly the same length as ours, to see how they put their credits in the film. This piece of research will help us when putting our credits in our film, as we are not sure how we will put them in, without it being too much of a distraction from whats going on in the scene. This film has the title at the beginning, and the rest of the credits at the end. I like the idea of the title at the beginning, and as we plan to start our film all in darkness, in will look good to have the title overlaying the darkness. However we want our ending to be quite sharp, as it is a cliffhanger, so we may not want credits at the end, because we feel that this may interfere with the atmosphere we want to create. This film, has the credits overlaying the video. The film name appears at 7 seconds, with the actors names at 14 seconds and 18 seconds. The editor's name comes at about 20 seconds, and the name of the person who edited the music at 24 seconds. The names of those who shot the film come at about 27 seconds, with the writer and director at 31 seconds. All this occurs over the opening sequence. We are thinking of using something similar for the actors names, the editor, director, sound and camera person, while putting the title of the film over the beginning, like in the first film (above)
In our lesson, we presented a pitch to the class and our teacher which showed our ideas and plot for our short film. We then received feedback and ideas from our class which gave us opinions from people outside of our group. This was very useful for us and developed our initial ideas more. Our class asked questions such as how would we avoid the members of the public when filming and asked how we would represent our film as the 1940s. These questions helped us think about how we would solve these problems so they will not be an issue for us when filming. They also said how we would need to stick to the codes and conventions of adventure films and not to drift off too much to another sub genre. Presenting our pitch to the class gave us some valuable market research and helped us improve our ideas for our short film.
For our flashbacks within our short film our location will be Alexandra Gardens in Windsor. This is because if we film these scenes outside then it will be easier for us to make it look like the 1940s era. We also planned to film in a loft in a house as we thought this would be a good location for the scene that included a lot of mystery. However I went to assess whether it was safe to film and if we had enough space and unfortunately it will be very unpractical and would put the actors at risk if we filmed there. We have also considered filming in a garage but it would be too dark and cold so we have decided that we will use a shed at the bottom of the garden. We feel that this will give the connotations of mystery. To ensure the lighting isn't too dark we will use professional lighting. We will also be filming in Amy's bedroom as there is a scene where she goes to bed and starts having flashbacks. We will be using a stereotypical teenage girls room to represent Amy. This location will be suitable and will not cause any risks. The only thing we need to consider and make sure is up to standard is the lighting in the bedroom as for some of it Amy will be sleeping. ![]() Our final location is a shed at the bottom of the garden and we will use this location when Amy finds the box. We will clear everything out of the shed to make room for the camera/tripod, lighting and the actors. We think that this is a suitable location because it fits well with our genre of adventure and mystery as the floor is quite dusty and the location has connotations of curiosity as the shed is based at the bottom of the garden and is quite isolated and alone. |
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