4 hour film challenge

1. Doors - Room 6

A short film depicting a girl getting locked into a room and discovering something unfriendly and unknown, shows uses of pull focus, using non-diegetic sound and voice-over with choppy editing to create a story with depth and exploiting one or more of the senses. Uses of low-level lighting with a variety of angled shots creates a composition that jumps from the p.o.v angle to a spectator angle creating a depth that fully envelops the viewer into the film.

Evaluation: The film contains strong points, such as the quick editing and jump cuts, its continuity of the shots at the start of the sequence are fluid. The lighting in the film itself is well done and highlighted the shots well and portrayed the necessary and wanted effect. A weak point of the film was that it lacked a proper clear narrative that wasn't well explained enough through out the film so therefore caused slight confusion. the film itself was strong with its audio but points through-out could've benefitted from ambient sounds and sometimes even silence to create a greater effect.



2. An Unusual Perspective

A short film depicting a group of college students seemingly recording themselves being clueless about what they are doing and how to create a film for what they are planning, then at the end of the film it is revealed that this was there idea all along. With use of different angles and a more hand held feel camera it has a more real life documentary feel to it. With the use of upbeat music and editing to enforce that.

Evaluation: The film has a number of strong points such as its fit the ideology and that it creates a confusing perspective through the use of handheld cameras, the narrative itself is confusing as it was not as clear to others as it seemed to us. To improve this we could have shot the film from a number of different perspectives.



3. Any idea - Plan Challenge




Basic Story Outline:
The song starts and its like that quick drum beat so each beat can be like Emily stumbling down the street on her way to the pub n she gets inside and it's just like messy handheld shots of her drinking and like rolling her head in her hands and falling about. Then the camera will change to a shot of Connie and Leah in the background like whispering about her, pull focus back somewhere or something choppy and then Connie and Leah approach Emily near the bit of the song; the two lines before the 'kick me out’ bit and we can like come up to her and have a cheeky smile to each other and then the next shot is Emily like falling out of the pub doors in a slow mo at the first 'kick me out' and then a different angle of her falling at the second 'kick me out’. Then there's like a point of view shot from Emily's perspective looking up at us at we're standing at the doors looking down at her. Basically we ruff her up and give her a gun and turn her into one of the others {Connie and Leah are basically modern day outlaws that take misfits in off the streets} Genre: Grunge Music Video {with narrative}Music: Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales of San Francisco {only be able to do like 2 mins of the song anyway so we can fade out at the instrumental bit around two minutes.} Equipment:Nikon DSLRSpare Battery 18-55mm lens Macro Lens {extreme close-up - detailing of the clothing, facial expressions, props}Tripod {to create steady shots}Props: Fake Gun, alcoholLocation:The location will vary but it will all be inside Nuneaton due to travel expenses and the shortness of time we have to produce a 1-2 minute feature film. Most of the locations we will be scouting will have some sort of derelict aspect to fit with our ‘grunge theme’.Locations in particular that we want to shoot are:Pool ClubPool Club Car ParkIndependent food restaurants StreetsIdeas:Derelict places in Nuneaton and shoot cool shots of derelict area’s/buildings {Pool Club, Pool Club Car Park, Independent food restaurants and Streets}Dress: Grunge, Alternative Rocker, mid-1980s {teenage dirtbag}Sort of ‘on the lamb’ storyline, like we are running away from somethingSomething that happened in San Fransisco, using the song lyrics metaphoricallyIn the song the lyrics repeat ‘kick me out, kick me out’, swap the characters around; the first verse is Emily getting pissed in the pub and the getting kicked out, then Connie and Leah find her and we all run away togetherFake Gun: Emily shooting someone after she gets kicked out but we find her, save her and run away {have her point the gun at the camera then drop to the floor, have the camera placed on the floor so the camera just captures our feet running to her, and then get a tripod and set it up so it is framing an over the shoulder shot of Emily so we have the same shot from different perspectives}Emily has lost it because she is drunk, her having a gun make her go crazyWhen Emily has the gun pointing at the camera the editing could be very fast paced and choppy where as when she drops to the ground, the footage could be slowed down