We were given the task of creating a short film that has the duration of ninety seconds. This film was to be entered into the Depict! Film Competition. Depict! Is an organisation that enables aspiring filmmakers to create their own ninety second film, expressing their creativity and originality. This can then be uploaded to depict.org so other inspired filmmakers within the industry can view it. The narrative for our short film revolves around Carter, a teenage boy who has a crush on his best friend’s girlfriend: Ava. As he silently watches them both giggling and enjoying each others company, he begins fantasising about activities him and Ava would do if he had been in a relationship with her. Eventually, he is brought back to reality as Ava sits next to him, trying to grab his attention. After exploring several ideas we found a scene from 'Run Lola Run!' by German film director Tom Tywker. It shows a man having a conversation with a lady he loves, as she walks away he falls into a daydream, imagining their future together and their blossoming romance, before he is suddenly brought back to the reality of his unrequited love. We had to complete a variety of different pre production paperwork that meant we had a schedule that showed us how to use our time efficiently in order to complete all stages of the production. This included storyboards and a shotlist so when it came to filming we knew exactly what footage we needed and with what camera angles, location releases and recess so we had permission to use properties and talent releases so we were able to legally film the actors in our film. Overall, I feel our pre production paper work was exactly like how our final film turned out, with almost all the shots from the shotlist and storyboards being included within the footage. The only change we made to our paperwork was within the storyboards as we changed one of the montage scenes due to the weather meaning the location was unable to be accessed for filming. I feel the most successful aspect of our project was the editing. We were able to work as a group to effectively combine sound and transitions with the recorded footage to create a great outcome for our final piece. This is specifically seen within the montage section of our film, where I believe we successfully edited the clips together, adding appropriate day dream music and transitions to make it look as effective and realistic as possible. If we were to complete this project again, I would change the planning that went into filming the montage. Although we had plenty of time to complete the montage filming, due to the horrible weather and the availability of all our actors at the same time, we quickly ran out of days we could use to film, however, we were still able to complete filming with more than enough time to edit. I enjoyed the filming most out of all the elements of the production, as I was able to act one of the parts within the film. With acting being my favourite thing to do, it meant I was able to thrive within this particular part of the filming process. After my peers watched the video, they said how they liked the way in which the shots were edited for the montage and how the transition of a white screen was slowly faded in and out to show it was the start and end of Carter's daydream. They thought that the ending of the film was slightly abrupt and would be the part to improve, as Carter quickly answers 'yeah' to Ava and the credits pop up. I agree with this and if we were to film again, I would definitely focus on improving the end section of the film.
Monday, January 21, 2019
Friday, January 18, 2019
Depict Reviews
Scarecrow:
https://www.depict.org/2018/scare-crow/?category_request=2018
When watching this short film, I had a particular interest in certain elements of it that I feel, made it very sucessful. I liked the unique and wide variety of camera angles that was used in order to give the film a sense of professionalism. They used drone shots, shallow depth of field shots, tracking shots and many more. I also thought the narrative was fairly interesting, keeping me enticed for the entire length of the film. I liked the way that at the start, a happy serene atmosphere is created. This is then contrasted from the rest of the film, as much more tension is built through the use of the music, dark lighting effects used and quick, short clips that were edited together to build the tension even further. Overall, in my opinion it was a good film with an understandable narrative and an effective and unpredictable ending.
Cool Unicorn Bruv:
https://www.depict.org/2013/cool-unicorn-bruv/?category_request=picks
I liked this film mainly due to its large use of comedy throughout. The narrative uses many jokes from all characters during the film that helps to create the comedic effect. In my opinion the personas that the characters perform make the narrative and jokes much funnier. The use of a small variety of normal clips such as close ups, medium shots, and long shots help to maintain the focus on the characters to make the narrative much more understandable. Although the narrative is not extremely complex or out there, it definitely highlights the comedic element sucessfully and the concept is amusing.
https://www.depict.org/2018/scare-crow/?category_request=2018
When watching this short film, I had a particular interest in certain elements of it that I feel, made it very sucessful. I liked the unique and wide variety of camera angles that was used in order to give the film a sense of professionalism. They used drone shots, shallow depth of field shots, tracking shots and many more. I also thought the narrative was fairly interesting, keeping me enticed for the entire length of the film. I liked the way that at the start, a happy serene atmosphere is created. This is then contrasted from the rest of the film, as much more tension is built through the use of the music, dark lighting effects used and quick, short clips that were edited together to build the tension even further. Overall, in my opinion it was a good film with an understandable narrative and an effective and unpredictable ending.
Cool Unicorn Bruv:
https://www.depict.org/2013/cool-unicorn-bruv/?category_request=picks
I liked this film mainly due to its large use of comedy throughout. The narrative uses many jokes from all characters during the film that helps to create the comedic effect. In my opinion the personas that the characters perform make the narrative and jokes much funnier. The use of a small variety of normal clips such as close ups, medium shots, and long shots help to maintain the focus on the characters to make the narrative much more understandable. Although the narrative is not extremely complex or out there, it definitely highlights the comedic element sucessfully and the concept is amusing.
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