Edale was a trip we went on to film a short silent 3 min film. this film could be about anything from a documentary to slide shows. me and my partner decided to experiment a bit with our idea. by trying crazy camera angels and wild zooms. our experimental piece was all about technology in the out doors. we at first wanted to go with an adam and eve sort of idea, as if an apple laptop was the apple from the tree and some loose cables was the evil snake. we thought this was a good idea although couldn't really figure out how to make this into a 3 min piece.
so after a bit more sitting down and thinking we stuck with the original idea of technology in the out doors but not concentrate on the adam and eve part although we may incorporate it as a random shot. so we chose our final idea as being lots of close ups and camera wiggling on the technology may it be a phone, mouse, laptop, external harddrive etc. and we would then place this equipment in beautiful country side surroundings, from the streams the side of a valley aslo just really nice picturesque spots through out edale.
we arrived in edale on the 27th of october. it was a very miserable day which didn't help when it came to finding the perfect locations and creating the right sort of shot with the ideal amount of colour and contrast in it. we spent the whole day walking around finding the best looking places with the right amount of brightness which was rather difficult on a gloomy yorkshire day. we did a number of shots from a mini dv camera next to a stream, a mouse on a tree surrounded by wires with a lovely willow tree in the background looking onto a really nice view, there were also the laptop in a tree idea, a nintendo wii hiding in some leaves as well as a mobile phone hidden away in a nice long shot. the easy part was done. getting the shots was easy enough despite the bad conditions.
the real difficult bit came in the post production. although we had lots of footage we had made the mistake of not getting enough different angels of the technology in the out doors. and replaying the same footage over and over agin is just boring to look at. so after finally getting a proper idea of the structure of the story we went back out to Edale and filmed a few more shots, this filming was easy enough as we new exactly what we wanted this time round. my partner was extremily helpful and probably had a better idea in hi head of what he wanted this short project. so i left the more creative part to him as i concentrated more on the actually filming making sure all the time codes and lighting and shots all looked nice and smooth. after we got our extra footage we got to do editing. this was a huge challenge for me and my partner as neither of us have used final cut before and our very brief introduction wasn't as help full as it possibly should have been. so after a lot of fiddling about our final piece of work was finished. its finished of being 3min and 6 seconds including titles. its finished of basically alt of quick close ups slowly zooming out to see the technology as one with the wildlife and out doors. i believe it looks like a decent piece of work and im happy with the out come.
(pictures to be added shortly)
Friday, 11 November 2011
Thursday, 3 November 2011
short films analysis
Over the past few weeks we've been watching several short films. All the films had depth and hidden meanings, im going to look into the themes of the films what the directors primary aim was. im going to help describe what i considered to be the films main points and discuss weather i thought the film was successful in dealing with its subject matter and why as well as discussing weather there was an element within the film that stood out and finally talking about what structure and style relate to its content. (theme & subject matter)
High rise
this short film showing a youngish mother in her council flat with her baby, we see the baby mover over towards an open window. the mother sees the baby crawling over towards the open window. the mum then walks out of the room. we get the sense that the mum is having a horrible time and really struggling with life and being a mother. we get the impression that she wants the baby to fall out of this high story council block. we then hear some screams and we can only presume its the baby, the mum then rushes in and sees the baby on the floor, she looks out the window and sees a doll has fallen out. Theres no scripts just lots of key sound effects witch really helps with the short film. the images and sound effect tell its own unique story. With the music, the sound effects and the quite hard to watch visual images this short film comes across as a very painful, difficult and stressful. the writer of this must have tried to get the point across of the hard lifestyle that comes with young pregnancies and the huge amount of responsibilities layed upon someone. i personally found this film quite hard to watch which makes me believe its done exactly what it intended to do. the film is shot very well with some great angles being used. and the link between the music and the sound effects work perfectly together to create the tension needed.
Gas Man- by lynne Ramsey
this short film is about a Scottish family, mum dad and a son and daughter. its set in the 90's and shows the dad taking his children to a christmas party. before he goes to the party he meets up with some other women with 2 other children. although nothing is said u get the impression that these other children are his from another marriage which his family dont know about. its kept quite which i presume is meant for the audience to make there own mind up about the other children. the short film is a good concept with and interesting story which goes into a lot of visual detail about how the father and children get pn with each other. its a good film and beautifully shot. the attention the detail is perfect. you get drawn into the story which makes you want to no everything about this family and where these other children have come from and how they relate to it all. although you never find out.
Love Me or Leave Me Alone
This is one of my favourite short films i've watched in a while. i loved the story and the way it was shot. the story is about a boy and a girl both aged around 16-17. who are going out with each other but a argument occurs which results in the girl walking away from the boy, he acts as if he dosent care then after sitting down realises what hes lost. he then goes on to try and find her. the film is basically him trying to find her so he can try and make it up to her. its quite an emotional film. the shots used though i believe are perfect. every shot has its own meaning which links in with the story perfectly. I perticuly liked the really dark shots used. the black screen with the occasional light passing over really gives you a suspense that something is going to happen although it never really does.
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High rise
this short film showing a youngish mother in her council flat with her baby, we see the baby mover over towards an open window. the mother sees the baby crawling over towards the open window. the mum then walks out of the room. we get the sense that the mum is having a horrible time and really struggling with life and being a mother. we get the impression that she wants the baby to fall out of this high story council block. we then hear some screams and we can only presume its the baby, the mum then rushes in and sees the baby on the floor, she looks out the window and sees a doll has fallen out. Theres no scripts just lots of key sound effects witch really helps with the short film. the images and sound effect tell its own unique story. With the music, the sound effects and the quite hard to watch visual images this short film comes across as a very painful, difficult and stressful. the writer of this must have tried to get the point across of the hard lifestyle that comes with young pregnancies and the huge amount of responsibilities layed upon someone. i personally found this film quite hard to watch which makes me believe its done exactly what it intended to do. the film is shot very well with some great angles being used. and the link between the music and the sound effects work perfectly together to create the tension needed.
Gas Man- by lynne Ramsey
this short film is about a Scottish family, mum dad and a son and daughter. its set in the 90's and shows the dad taking his children to a christmas party. before he goes to the party he meets up with some other women with 2 other children. although nothing is said u get the impression that these other children are his from another marriage which his family dont know about. its kept quite which i presume is meant for the audience to make there own mind up about the other children. the short film is a good concept with and interesting story which goes into a lot of visual detail about how the father and children get pn with each other. its a good film and beautifully shot. the attention the detail is perfect. you get drawn into the story which makes you want to no everything about this family and where these other children have come from and how they relate to it all. although you never find out.
Love Me or Leave Me Alone
This is one of my favourite short films i've watched in a while. i loved the story and the way it was shot. the story is about a boy and a girl both aged around 16-17. who are going out with each other but a argument occurs which results in the girl walking away from the boy, he acts as if he dosent care then after sitting down realises what hes lost. he then goes on to try and find her. the film is basically him trying to find her so he can try and make it up to her. its quite an emotional film. the shots used though i believe are perfect. every shot has its own meaning which links in with the story perfectly. I perticuly liked the really dark shots used. the black screen with the occasional light passing over really gives you a suspense that something is going to happen although it never really does.
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