http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p004pyzt
This is the first short film which i have watched. It is four minuets and six seconds long and the story is only focusing on two main characters and has a very simple story line which is easy to follow.
It is about a doctor who falls in love with a women who is dead. Something that i learnt from this short film is that from just watching this short film i have been able to summerise the story into just one sentence which is what we have done with our film.
Also at the start of this film it tells you that it was made according to Straight8 rules. One 58mm cartridge, no editing, unless on camera.
Another thing which i liked about this film is that the story is so easy for the audience to follow and understand, although i do not like the actually idea of a man falling in love with a dead women. There are not many locations involved and it is very basic however, at the same time very effective.
The genre of this film was a dark romantic comedy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p004tdk0
This short film is a Romantic Comedy, of the same genre we are doing.
I really enjoyed this short film, however it was 12 minuets long and ours is only allowed to be 5 minuets.
This story is about a women and man who both get very drunk at a fancy dress party. They go back to someones house, once they find the key, and the next morning when they wake up neither one of them know who they have slept with and where they are. In the end it turns out they slept at a random couples house. Once they leave the couple have a little romantic kiss and decide they want to go on a date.
I like this story. It has humour's, exciting, mysterious, fun and interesting. In my opinion it made you want to see me, for example i would like it if it was a normal length film and we got too see what happened between them once they left the house. Many people have one night stands and can relate to this however the audience are interested to know who's house this is which draws you into the film.
Thursday 26 November 2009
Film Poster
Another task we have to do is create a poster advertising the film we've created. Bellow are some samples of film advertisements...on billboards, buses, magazines...etc. We have started to research other films ways of advertising in order to get ideas to create our own and make it as effective as possible.
Equiptment List
The equipment we will need to actually film is fairly basic:
A camera (Sony PD170)
A Tripod
An umbrella - in case of rain (to hold over and protect camera)
film - for camera
spare battery - in case the original ran out of charge
Some of our scenes our outside, for those scenes the props are fairly basic because the background we need is already there. For example (the street, house, trees/cars around...etc). The other scenes are in the house, again all the furniture is already there so the main thing we need to organise and worry about is "personal props". Our personal props consist of things like, Knickers, his&her clothes, bottle of champagne, her shoes, his cigarettes, the key,
A camera (Sony PD170)
A Tripod
An umbrella - in case of rain (to hold over and protect camera)
film - for camera
spare battery - in case the original ran out of charge
Some of our scenes our outside, for those scenes the props are fairly basic because the background we need is already there. For example (the street, house, trees/cars around...etc). The other scenes are in the house, again all the furniture is already there so the main thing we need to organise and worry about is "personal props". Our personal props consist of things like, Knickers, his&her clothes, bottle of champagne, her shoes, his cigarettes, the key,
Characters
AMY: Amy is an 18year old girl. She comes from a middle class family and has been brought up in private education. She's very fun and loving and has lots of friends but is currently single. Shes just finished High School/College and will be going to Leeds University next year to study English. Amy is your average teenager however it is very rare that she gets so drunk that she would have a one night stand and is therefore embarrassed when she wakes up in the morning to remember what she has done.
JACK: Jack is 19 years old. He is from a working class family and has been brought up in the state education. He's very outgoing, loud..etc. He's a typical lad around his friends and is only interested in girls, football, sports, party's, getting drunk...etc. However, Jack has just come out of a long term relationship and therefore is extremely shocked at himself for sleeping with Amy after they had only met a few hours previously.
JACK: Jack is 19 years old. He is from a working class family and has been brought up in the state education. He's very outgoing, loud..etc. He's a typical lad around his friends and is only interested in girls, football, sports, party's, getting drunk...etc. However, Jack has just come out of a long term relationship and therefore is extremely shocked at himself for sleeping with Amy after they had only met a few hours previously.
The Morning After
Our new script is called 'The Morning After' It is about a girl and boy who met at a party and ended up leaving together. They are extremely drunk and end up in somebody Else's home. They wake up in the morning, feeling a sense of embarrassment and regret and both think they are in each others homes. After getting out of bed and having a very awkward breakfast they both discover that it is in fact neither of their homes and that they need to get out as soon as they can before somebody finds them there. After escaping the house they have a laugh together and realise that there might actually be some feelings between them and re introduce themselves, making a new start.
Wednesday 25 November 2009
Sound Effects.
1. Door Slamming.
2. Cupboards shutting.
3. Footsteps.
4. Window opening.
5. Falling out of bed.(loud bang).
2. Cupboards shutting.
3. Footsteps.
4. Window opening.
5. Falling out of bed.(loud bang).
Sound Effects
1. door slamming
2. footsteps
3. cupboards closing
4. falling out of bed
5. opening the window
6.
Shot List
1. Very Long Shot. Jack and Amy on their way back from a party, walking down a street.
2. Long Shot. Jack and Amy kissing.
3. Close Up. Amy's face (laughing).
4. Close Up. Jack's face (laughing).
5. Long Shot. Amy taking off her shoes. Jack drinking.
6. Close Up. Jacks face (asking if Amy's ready).
7. Medium Close Up. Amy and Jack dancing.
8. Medium Close Up. Amy and Jack hiding behind a wall, house in the background.
9. Long Shot. Amy and Jack walking towards the house.
10. Medium Close Up. Walking towards the house.
11. Close Up. Amy tripping over the matt.
12. Medium Close Up. Jack picking up the key.
13. Close Up. The key.
14. Medium Close Up. Amy taking the key from Jack.
15. Close Up. Amy opening the door.
16. Medium Close Up. Jack and Amy kissing.
17. Medium Close Up. Jack and Amy enter the house.
18. Close Up. The door shut.
19. Close Up. The cloths on the bedroom floor.
20. Long Shot. Jack and Amy hugging in bed, knickers on Jacks foot.
21. Close Up. Knickers on Jacks foot.
22. Medium Close Up. Amy waking up next to Jack.
23. Long Shot. Jack lying in bed. Amy gets up and takes knickers off his foot.
24. Medium Close Up. Amy sat in the bathroom.
25. Close Up. Photo of a boy.
26. Medium Close Up. Amy pointing at photo, curious.
27. Long Shot. Jack falling out of bed.
28. Medium Close Up. Jack putting his trousers on.
29. Medium Close Up. Jack making the bed.
30. Medium Close Up. Amy washing her face.
31. Close Up. Amy wiping face on towel.
32. Medium Close Up. Amy hiding the towel.
33. Long Shot. Amy walking down the stairs.
34. Medium Close Up. Jack looking around downstairs.
35. Long Shot. Amy and Jack bump into each other.
36. Close Up. Amy and Jack talking .
37. Medium Close Up. Amy pointing Jack in the right direction.
38. Long Shot. Them both wondering off in different directions.
39. Medium Close Up. Amy searching for the teacups.
40. Long Shot. Jack looking around.
41. Medium Close Up. Amy bringing in the tea.
42. Medium Close Up. Them both drinking tea.
43. Close Up. Jack putting cigarette out on saucer.
44. Medium Close Up. Jack and Amy talking.
45. Medium Close Up. Amy and Jack looking around,curiously.
46. Close Up. Both of them in shock.
47. Medium Close Up. Jack pulling Amy towards him (heading over to the window).
48. Medium Close Up. Jack helps Amy out the window.
49. Medium Close Up. Jack climbs out the window.
50. Long Shot. Jack and Amy escaping from the house.
51. Medium Close Up. Jack picks Amy up.
52. Close Up. Amy smiling.
53. Long Shot. Amy and Jack walking off, down the road (Amy in Jacks arms).
54. Very Long Shot. Jack and Amy kissing.
2. Long Shot. Jack and Amy kissing.
3. Close Up. Amy's face (laughing).
4. Close Up. Jack's face (laughing).
5. Long Shot. Amy taking off her shoes. Jack drinking.
6. Close Up. Jacks face (asking if Amy's ready).
7. Medium Close Up. Amy and Jack dancing.
8. Medium Close Up. Amy and Jack hiding behind a wall, house in the background.
9. Long Shot. Amy and Jack walking towards the house.
10. Medium Close Up. Walking towards the house.
11. Close Up. Amy tripping over the matt.
12. Medium Close Up. Jack picking up the key.
13. Close Up. The key.
14. Medium Close Up. Amy taking the key from Jack.
15. Close Up. Amy opening the door.
16. Medium Close Up. Jack and Amy kissing.
17. Medium Close Up. Jack and Amy enter the house.
18. Close Up. The door shut.
19. Close Up. The cloths on the bedroom floor.
20. Long Shot. Jack and Amy hugging in bed, knickers on Jacks foot.
21. Close Up. Knickers on Jacks foot.
22. Medium Close Up. Amy waking up next to Jack.
23. Long Shot. Jack lying in bed. Amy gets up and takes knickers off his foot.
24. Medium Close Up. Amy sat in the bathroom.
25. Close Up. Photo of a boy.
26. Medium Close Up. Amy pointing at photo, curious.
27. Long Shot. Jack falling out of bed.
28. Medium Close Up. Jack putting his trousers on.
29. Medium Close Up. Jack making the bed.
30. Medium Close Up. Amy washing her face.
31. Close Up. Amy wiping face on towel.
32. Medium Close Up. Amy hiding the towel.
33. Long Shot. Amy walking down the stairs.
34. Medium Close Up. Jack looking around downstairs.
35. Long Shot. Amy and Jack bump into each other.
36. Close Up. Amy and Jack talking .
37. Medium Close Up. Amy pointing Jack in the right direction.
38. Long Shot. Them both wondering off in different directions.
39. Medium Close Up. Amy searching for the teacups.
40. Long Shot. Jack looking around.
41. Medium Close Up. Amy bringing in the tea.
42. Medium Close Up. Them both drinking tea.
43. Close Up. Jack putting cigarette out on saucer.
44. Medium Close Up. Jack and Amy talking.
45. Medium Close Up. Amy and Jack looking around,curiously.
46. Close Up. Both of them in shock.
47. Medium Close Up. Jack pulling Amy towards him (heading over to the window).
48. Medium Close Up. Jack helps Amy out the window.
49. Medium Close Up. Jack climbs out the window.
50. Long Shot. Jack and Amy escaping from the house.
51. Medium Close Up. Jack picks Amy up.
52. Close Up. Amy smiling.
53. Long Shot. Amy and Jack walking off, down the road (Amy in Jacks arms).
54. Very Long Shot. Jack and Amy kissing.
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Evaluation so far..
We are coming up to half term and after writing our first draft of our script we realised that maybe we did not have the best story line. We decided to do some more research on short films and see how they have presented the characters and the story line in such a short amount of time and space.
I was inspired by a number of story lines and after thinking long and hard about what to do i thought it would be best if we started to come up with another story idea inspired through another film seeing as this gives us something to work on and we are not starting from scratch.
The problems we were faces with:
- Seeing as our first script we began from scratch our story line was messy and did not complete. For example we wanted the audience to like our character Joe in the end however when we put him on dates we made him out to be a jock. We made such a hated character that we just couldn't think of how the audience would grow to like him, especially in such a short amount of time.
- we are very limited on time. We wanted to make our character change as a person and fall in love with a girl and to find out the girls was dying just in 5 minuets. This would be VERY hard to do.
- After watching a number of short films we realised that they are all very basic and consist on a couple of characters. We wanted a number of locations, a number of actors and we were making the story far to complex.
Once me and my partner agreed on giving writing up a script another go we decided that we are better off basing our film on another film and intrtpreting our own ideas into it. We have now got our new script written up and we are pleased with the progress. Everything is now coming together and we are feeling far more organised. By next week we are going to be able to start filming.
- we created a thoroughly dislikeable character and the audience will not like him. As far as his change of feelings the audience will simply think that he is not to be trusted,therefor will never grow to like him. We were meant to show that he has some redeeming characters and instead his character seemed to be contradicting himself.
I was inspired by a number of story lines and after thinking long and hard about what to do i thought it would be best if we started to come up with another story idea inspired through another film seeing as this gives us something to work on and we are not starting from scratch.
The problems we were faces with:
- Seeing as our first script we began from scratch our story line was messy and did not complete. For example we wanted the audience to like our character Joe in the end however when we put him on dates we made him out to be a jock. We made such a hated character that we just couldn't think of how the audience would grow to like him, especially in such a short amount of time.
- we are very limited on time. We wanted to make our character change as a person and fall in love with a girl and to find out the girls was dying just in 5 minuets. This would be VERY hard to do.
- After watching a number of short films we realised that they are all very basic and consist on a couple of characters. We wanted a number of locations, a number of actors and we were making the story far to complex.
Once me and my partner agreed on giving writing up a script another go we decided that we are better off basing our film on another film and intrtpreting our own ideas into it. We have now got our new script written up and we are pleased with the progress. Everything is now coming together and we are feeling far more organised. By next week we are going to be able to start filming.
- we created a thoroughly dislikeable character and the audience will not like him. As far as his change of feelings the audience will simply think that he is not to be trusted,therefor will never grow to like him. We were meant to show that he has some redeeming characters and instead his character seemed to be contradicting himself.
Wednesday 4 November 2009
What is Longtail?
The Long Tail is a retailing concept describing the niche strategy of selling a large number of unique items in relatively small quantities – usually in addition to selling fewer popular items in large quantities. The concept was popularised by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article, in which he mentioned Amazon.com and Netflix as examples of businesses applying this strategy. Chris Anderson elaborated the Long Tail concept in his book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More...
The distribution and inventory costs of business successfully applying this strategy allow them to realize significant profit out of selling small volumes of (har dot find) items to many customers instead of only selling large volumes of a reduced number of popular items.
The total sales of this large number of "non-hit items" is called THE LONG TAIL.
The Long Tail concept has found some ground for application, research, and experimentation. It is a term used in online business, mass media, micro-finance, user-driven innovation, and social network mechanisms (e.g., crowdsourcing, crowdcasting, peer-to-peer), economic models, and marketing (viral marketing).
The distribution and inventory costs of business successfully applying this strategy allow them to realize significant profit out of selling small volumes of (har dot find) items to many customers instead of only selling large volumes of a reduced number of popular items.
The total sales of this large number of "non-hit items" is called THE LONG TAIL.
The Long Tail concept has found some ground for application, research, and experimentation. It is a term used in online business, mass media, micro-finance, user-driven innovation, and social network mechanisms (e.g., crowdsourcing, crowdcasting, peer-to-peer), economic models, and marketing (viral marketing).
Here are another 2 posters from a film called 'Shes all that' and 'The Notebook'.
Both romantic stories, Shes all that is about the most popular kid in school made a bet with his friends that he could turn the geek into a girl he would date for the prom but through the journey he has to fight for her and then they end up falling in love! The Notebook is your classic love film witch of course relates to the short film we plan on makeing.
This is a movie trailer/poster for the film 'A walk to remember'. This film is what we have decided to base our short film on. As you can see in this picture the couple are all cute cuddling up close together both looking extremely happy. This picture does not go into detail about the fact that the girl has got an illness or that the girl is a 'geek' and the boy is 'the cool kid'. It shows that pictures can be miss leading.
I have been researching many film posters to start getting an idea for when we have to design ours.
Discription of our main charchter
He's called Joe Jackson and is 19years old. Born September 24th, makeing him one of the eldest in the school year.
He has one younger brother who is 17 years old. However, like a lot of siblings they are complete opposites of eachother. Joe is almost embaressed of his younger brohter.
While Joe is into sports, his apperance, going out and girls his younger brother Edward stays home to play computer games and does not enjoy leaving the house or hanging around with 'friends'. There social lives are a complete contrast. You can tell this just by there apperance (Joe, takes care of himself, dresses to impress and always wants the newest things. Where as Joe, has scruffy long hair, wears glasses and is oftern seen in the same tatty clothes.)
Joe drives a matt black Range Rover with tinted windows and sporty rims. He's a full time student, but promotes clubs on the weekend. His interests are football, sports (soccer), the gym, GIRLS, drinking, clubbing, cars, money, popularity. He's single and has always been popular with the girls, giving him an excure to mess them around and play them off against eachother untill he realised he didnt want to be like that anymore and infact wants to fall in love and have a proper relationship. He wants to go on a number of dates untill he finds his dream girl!
He lives in a 3 bedroom apartment in knightsbridge, next door to Harrods. He only has One flat mate named Sam Garner and the other room was originally taken by his ex girlfriend Sarah , who only lasted a number of weeks.
He no longer lives with his parents seeing as he moved out into his own house at the age 18, when he started university.
Where he was born - In St Johns wood. The Wellington.
He has grown up in London his whole life. But travells very oftern.
Fathers name - Mr Pete Jackson
Mothers name - Mrs Clair Jackson
His father is a lawyer for his own firm and is always in another country travelling for his work.
His mother is a secutary for her husbands lawyer firm, and when she is not at work she is either cooking or cleaning their beautiful house in Sloanne Square. Their business is located in Hype park and is a very well know lawyer firm.
He has longish brown hair, spiked up with gel. Bright blue eyes. Very broad seeing as he spends half of his life in the gym.
Joe normally goes for the stereotypical girl: Tall, slim, Long ,blonde, straightened hair. (cheerleader) Tanned skin and they are always from the popular crowd of girls that everyone is after.
He has one younger brother who is 17 years old. However, like a lot of siblings they are complete opposites of eachother. Joe is almost embaressed of his younger brohter.
While Joe is into sports, his apperance, going out and girls his younger brother Edward stays home to play computer games and does not enjoy leaving the house or hanging around with 'friends'. There social lives are a complete contrast. You can tell this just by there apperance (Joe, takes care of himself, dresses to impress and always wants the newest things. Where as Joe, has scruffy long hair, wears glasses and is oftern seen in the same tatty clothes.)
Joe drives a matt black Range Rover with tinted windows and sporty rims. He's a full time student, but promotes clubs on the weekend. His interests are football, sports (soccer), the gym, GIRLS, drinking, clubbing, cars, money, popularity. He's single and has always been popular with the girls, giving him an excure to mess them around and play them off against eachother untill he realised he didnt want to be like that anymore and infact wants to fall in love and have a proper relationship. He wants to go on a number of dates untill he finds his dream girl!
He lives in a 3 bedroom apartment in knightsbridge, next door to Harrods. He only has One flat mate named Sam Garner and the other room was originally taken by his ex girlfriend Sarah , who only lasted a number of weeks.
He no longer lives with his parents seeing as he moved out into his own house at the age 18, when he started university.
Where he was born - In St Johns wood. The Wellington.
He has grown up in London his whole life. But travells very oftern.
Fathers name - Mr Pete Jackson
Mothers name - Mrs Clair Jackson
His father is a lawyer for his own firm and is always in another country travelling for his work.
His mother is a secutary for her husbands lawyer firm, and when she is not at work she is either cooking or cleaning their beautiful house in Sloanne Square. Their business is located in Hype park and is a very well know lawyer firm.
He has longish brown hair, spiked up with gel. Bright blue eyes. Very broad seeing as he spends half of his life in the gym.
Joe normally goes for the stereotypical girl: Tall, slim, Long ,blonde, straightened hair. (cheerleader) Tanned skin and they are always from the popular crowd of girls that everyone is after.
A2 Brief
The OCR brief asks you to produce :
A SHORT film (5 minuets)and two from these three:
- a poster- a radio trailer
- a film magazine review page.
I am working on my film with one person. We have choosen to do a poseter and a film magazine review page.
Origionally we decided on creating a radio trailer but then changed our mind when we realised that a poster/magazine review was probobally a more in depth way of showing off our film as you can go into more detail, show pictures...etc
A SHORT film (5 minuets)and two from these three:
- a poster- a radio trailer
- a film magazine review page.
I am working on my film with one person. We have choosen to do a poseter and a film magazine review page.
Origionally we decided on creating a radio trailer but then changed our mind when we realised that a poster/magazine review was probobally a more in depth way of showing off our film as you can go into more detail, show pictures...etc
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