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Introduction to the module.

We will be making a short film roughly 3-5 minutes in length.

To help understand the artistic purposes behind short films we watched some and had a group discussion about them.

In our groups we brainstormed ideas for our short film. as a group we have decided to use the genre of romance. log line is a a brief 1\2 sentence summary of a film.

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Our story follows the lives of two young adults at university who have been close friends since college and are living in the same flat together. The story begins with both teens in the kitchen and our main character has been building up the courage to confess his feelings in a way that does not come on too strong. He makes a comment in passing conversation to try and touch on the subject gently because if this goes wrong the friendship will never be the same. After the comment we are thrown into the minds of each individual as they imagine what life would be like if they were together. Each individual pictures this life in completely diverse ways to one another. In the mind of our main character, we see an incredibly positive outlook on what they could be such as dates and cooking together, we see very warm imagery, the classic love story playing in his mind. However, in the mind of our other character this potential relationship is something she knows will not work out, her images are direct contrasts to his, where he sees life and potential, she only sees disappointment and heartbreak, and she does not want to jeopardise their friendship for something she is sure will fail. To conclude our story, we are directed back into the present situation of the individuals and a moment of silence is shared in this situation as our female lead is yet to answer the question, much to our main characters anticipation.

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In an unrequited love story we experience the drastically different viewpoints of two teens and their envisions of what life together would be like.

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jack and loren are good friends and flatmates both have a secret crush on the other...

loren being the more switched on forward thinking of the 2 doesnʼt want to pursue jack romantically

jack as a more playful is afraid of rejection so doesnt pursue

jack can be described as a golden retriever and loren a black cat

both are 19

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short film scripts have to be concise in order to focus on the story and not waste time with unessacary information

scripts always start with a scene description of three bits of information interior exterior or both then the location eg gym,restaurant etc and day\night 1 page=1 minute

followed by the action the scene begins with eg john is walking through the park and he is clearly in a rush.

character names are before the lines and in caps

parenthetical is the equivalent of stage direction.

directors vs producers

directors are the main creative in the project doing things like marking up scripts storyboards and working with the actors. while the producer is a more practical role doing things such as budgeting and scheduling however the 2 roles overlap a great deal and the 2 are ultimately working together for the same goal.

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The łocations we will use are a flat kitchen, see floor plan, peel park and salford art museum. We are using our very own niamh horan (also the producer) and a friend of the production company matt jones as actors. As this is a student film we are requesting the actors use their own clothes as costumes.

static composition makes use of straight lines and are soothing to the audience.

dynamic composition uses diagonal and are unsettling to the audience

lead space is the space infront of the character (where the eyes are leading)

180 degree rule is to draw a ʼline of actionʼ and not cross it

rembrandt lighting uses one light and a reflector which essentially creates key light and fill light.

sounds used in film

music

voice

sfx

ellipsis is a break in time in the narrative world usually signified with a black screen or transition etc

insert shot a close up of something unnatural (usually gives information) eg a book or phone screen

parallel editing two scenes that are juxtaposed eg godfather scene

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a shot list is a visual aid handed out to the entire production team and is used so the production team can make a plan of action for when, where and how they can film

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this is a storyboard the purpose of this is similar to the shot list as it is a physical idea of what the shots are supposed to look like however this is literally pictures as opposed to the written ideas of what the director wants to happen.

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jobs as sound technician

1 meeting with director to discuss sound requirements for each scene

2 floor plan

3 shot list (for sound)

4 meet with team

shooting times wednesday 10-3

thursday 10-3

practical research

on friday i researched possible music and sfx i could use for my edit in post unfortunately i was unable to book out sound recording equipment however i watched youtube to familiarise myself with the equipment and i plan on booking out equipment this friday.

i booked out the equpiment on the friday and recorded on location (matts flat) for a few minutes and found no issues.

upon meeting with the team we discussed that i would only need to record sound for half the shoot and a floor plan would be excessive as all i need to do was get behind the camera (out the way of the lights so i didnt create shadows) and use the boom pole to get as close to the actors as possible.

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We starting filming on Wednesday the 21st  in our star actor’s (Matthew Jones’) flat filming scene 1 and 4 this went smoothly on my end we left aside 5 minute to record room tone and had a little blip where we werenʼt sure if it was recording louding enough but other than a good bit of filming.

Next we headed to Salford art gallery and peel park respectively to film for the montage both went fantastic and we managed to film all scenes in 1 day

My job as sound recordist wasn’t needed for the montage so I had a lot of responsibility to ensure things were easy for the camera operator director and actors be that holding coats helping with angles and moral support.

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To begin with i gathered the clips i wanted to use and put them into premiere pro. Once i put them together in some resemblance of my final film i discovered that i had made jacks montage far too long as the music i had picked out wasnʼt long enough before cutting them down i entertained the idea of having a music student make me a piece of music but i settled on cutting down the montage to around a minute so as not to bore the audience with a 5 minute montage of the same thing. once the montages were down i added in fades from the dialogue and cross dissolves so it was smoother and its easy to tell which character is imagining what. Once i had a full film i added in colour effects turn up the exposure and adding a pink hue and turning up the temperature for the first, happy montage and adding a blue hue to the other in transition to the first to appear sadder. Now with a full film i added a title sequence and end credits and as a new filmmaker i posted a teaser of this new film on my creative instagram page and i have since published the film for people to watch and i can gradually create a portfolio as a cinematographer editor and actor.

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these are our shot guidance sheets and these are used in post production in editing to make things a little bit easier as at the beginning someone will have a clapperboard with something like ʼscene 1 shot 3 take 4ʼ on it and guidance sheets will tell us that this particular take was useable and we should ad into the sequence as opposed to going through and watching everything to decipher if it useable or not

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this is our floor plan and what this does is essentially just a plan of where all the equipment could be placed in order to get a desired shot.