Tuesday 30 September 2014


Closed questionnaire

 

Open questionnaire

I created this questionnaire in order to find out more about my target audience and what their opinion was on short films.

Here is an example taken from a selection of 15 questionnaires.

looking back over these questionnaires I forgot to include the gender and age of the people I asked. This is a little note to state that when I do upload my pie charts presenting my findings, I will have gender and age on them, I just asked them after the questionnaires were given out.

Tuesday 16 September 2014

Short film pitch

Pitch


I am aiming to create a short film with Alex. We have decided on the storyline of the short film however our genre is rather flexible. We will be using a mix of conventions that are carried out in different genres and different short or ordinary films that we have seen to fit without story.

The time period fluctuates as we use flashbacks from the man’s life. The short film is about a man who has a un- said illness that affects him in a severe mental way. Throughout the film, (which is mainly set at his home, and then the memories are in varies other places) he reminisces with old memories by looking at old photos, war medals...etc. He is overcome by emotion and basically has an episode. The episode is hearing his deceased wife talk to him and when he turns around he isn’t in his lovely home but in a sterile looking white hospital room, where a nurse talks him down in a very condescending tone.

The setting appears to be unclear but from what you can gather from his small movements to where he mainly sits in the film (at a desk/mirror+desk area), it is in a sitting room/ warm and comfy looking bedroom. The flashbacks will be set in various places like a forest or a grassy area. We will be using a lot of open areas but places that wouldn’t give away the time we are filming in which is obviously 2014. It wouldn’t look very convincing if we had the metrocentre in shot when we were trying to resemble the 1930s/40s.

In our film there won’t necessarily be a lot of dialogue but there will be some towards the end which drive the story to a climax where you discover his illness.

We thought of having old war music in the background and then when he becomes anxious and starts getting emotional, the music will start to distort, which drives the shots. They get faster and faster and then music stops. The short and quiet dialogue comes in till the end of the film.

Tuesday 9 September 2014

Short film investigation: The Camera

From what I've gathered this short film is about a young girl who is aware of this camera that possess the ability to show things that aren't there. I believe this because she goes willingly to the camera and this shows she knows or at least has a hunch of what it can do. There is a relationship between this girl and the boy that appears in the Polaroid picture. There's a crescendo of events as she frantically starts taking pictures searching for this boy. As I stated before, she must know him because looks out onto the beach and then uses the camera to see him walking towards the beach. This suggests that she knows where he's going or where he would be going. When she takes a picture of herself, she either enters the 'realm' or 'heaven' he's in (I'm not quite sure what this other place is. It must be down to the audience's own interpretation).





Short film investigation: Casualties of war

This short film features a young woman's story of how she lost the love of her life due to war. It shows you here preparing for some sort of ceremony and my first guess was a wedding. It doesn't state he has died, it just shows lips of shots which start off unfocussed and zooms in to the photographs of herself, her child and her fiancĂ©e/boyfriend. The story unravels and shows that she is arriving at a graveyard and it's evident she is in emotional pain. All though it isn't clearly evident, it looks as if she has lost him before their wedding day. She's living out the wedding day they didn't get to spend together.