- I Miss You by Beyond Tomorrow Films
- Identity by Kalhil KJ Adames
Monday, 29 June 2015
Research and Planning
For our Research and Planning segment of the course, we are going to analyse the following films:
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Today's Lesson - 18/06/15 (Exam Side)
In today's lesson, we were given the following objectives:
Short film: Any film that has a duration longer than one minute and shorter than 15 minutes.
Identifying producers, purpose and audience of a film is easier to do once you establish the genre and what kind of characters and narrative is used within the film. For example, if you have a horror genre of a film and the characters used are all adults with explicit features to narrative and action, you are able to identify that the purpose is to entertain and frighten and the audience is 15+ (depending on how explicit).
Analysis and evaluating a short film to assess its quality is also an aspect I find easy. For example, we analysed:
I felt that Pong was a high quality short film as it was imaginative, difficult to film and original. They used effects of a ping pong ball and a slinky moving, without the effect of being unrealistic, which created a very high quality short film.
Valse was also a brilliant short film (my favourite out of them all) as it had a very original and clever storyline of showing two snails trying to get to each other because they're in love, followed by a long shot of a chef then picking them up and putting them in boiling water, causing a shock factor. This was then continued by showing a shot of them holding onto each other in the water, which I felt was beautifully filmed and executed. The short film also contained perfect music for the feelings given and was very emotionally gripping, once again showing a high quality.
We then watched the music video Foolish, which contained bold colours and a themed storyline, however the actual quality was not great and you lost interest quickly.
Finally we analysed Friday Tigers, which again contained a very effective and gripping storyline, with some expletives and some jump scares, however the film in an entirety was very good quality, with a brilliant plot and filming techniques.
Overall I found today's lesson very useful in establishing what is a quality film and what is not, as well as learning a more in depth understanding as to what a short film is.
- To clarify what is meant by a short film
- To identify producers, purpose and audience for short films
- To analyse and evaluate the quality of a short film
Short film: Any film that has a duration longer than one minute and shorter than 15 minutes.
Identifying producers, purpose and audience of a film is easier to do once you establish the genre and what kind of characters and narrative is used within the film. For example, if you have a horror genre of a film and the characters used are all adults with explicit features to narrative and action, you are able to identify that the purpose is to entertain and frighten and the audience is 15+ (depending on how explicit).
Analysis and evaluating a short film to assess its quality is also an aspect I find easy. For example, we analysed:
- Pong
- Valse
- Foolish
- Friday Tigers
I felt that Pong was a high quality short film as it was imaginative, difficult to film and original. They used effects of a ping pong ball and a slinky moving, without the effect of being unrealistic, which created a very high quality short film.
Valse was also a brilliant short film (my favourite out of them all) as it had a very original and clever storyline of showing two snails trying to get to each other because they're in love, followed by a long shot of a chef then picking them up and putting them in boiling water, causing a shock factor. This was then continued by showing a shot of them holding onto each other in the water, which I felt was beautifully filmed and executed. The short film also contained perfect music for the feelings given and was very emotionally gripping, once again showing a high quality.
We then watched the music video Foolish, which contained bold colours and a themed storyline, however the actual quality was not great and you lost interest quickly.
Finally we analysed Friday Tigers, which again contained a very effective and gripping storyline, with some expletives and some jump scares, however the film in an entirety was very good quality, with a brilliant plot and filming techniques.
Overall I found today's lesson very useful in establishing what is a quality film and what is not, as well as learning a more in depth understanding as to what a short film is.
Today's Lesson - 18/06/15
In today's lesson, myself and Lauren have beendiscussing further ideas for our short film. We have still not fully planned and plotted are final ideas, however we are msot of the way there.
Our film is going to be about a girl who has been blind since birth, with the first half of our film showing some background to her life. This part will be in black and white to signify how colourless and lonely her life is without having anybody to properly help her and always be with her. This will then sontiune with more plot that we have to discuss, but will result in the girl being given a guide dog. In the scene where they meet for the first time, the film whil change from black and white to colour as they greet each other for the first time, showing that the girl finally feels complete with a companion.
In order to gain a clearer understanding, we have spoken to our teacher about this idea and she has suggested a few films we can look at to include in our research, including:
This will enhance mine and Lauren's understanding on how to effectively carry out a short film with this editing effect.
In today's lesson I also watched "Boy", a short film by Lucas Helth Postma, which is a very emotional and powerful film which I will continue to analyse as part of my research and planning.
Next Lesson: Continue research and planning
Our film is going to be about a girl who has been blind since birth, with the first half of our film showing some background to her life. This part will be in black and white to signify how colourless and lonely her life is without having anybody to properly help her and always be with her. This will then sontiune with more plot that we have to discuss, but will result in the girl being given a guide dog. In the scene where they meet for the first time, the film whil change from black and white to colour as they greet each other for the first time, showing that the girl finally feels complete with a companion.
In order to gain a clearer understanding, we have spoken to our teacher about this idea and she has suggested a few films we can look at to include in our research, including:
- A Matter of Life and Death
- If
- Wizard of Oz
- Schindler's List
This will enhance mine and Lauren's understanding on how to effectively carry out a short film with this editing effect.
In today's lesson I also watched "Boy", a short film by Lucas Helth Postma, which is a very emotional and powerful film which I will continue to analyse as part of my research and planning.
Next Lesson: Continue research and planning
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
Working with Lauren
Lauren and I have decided to team up and work together for the whole of our research, planning, filming, analysis and evaluation processes.
We felt that this would be a more effective way to work, rather than individually as it would aid us with producing more ideas.
We felt that this would be a more effective way to work, rather than individually as it would aid us with producing more ideas.
Monday, 15 June 2015
Research and Planning Introduction
Our research and Planning Task is to research the codes and conventions of short films, focusing on the following:
As a suggestion for this as to what to look for, we watched a short film called 'The Crush' in our lesson today and this has helped me to comprehend what my short film needs to look like.
- At least 2 short films in detail, thinking about the genre chosen. Annotate these in full - using micro and macro analysis.
- Another 2/3 short films in less detail, again using micro and macro analysis.
As a suggestion for this as to what to look for, we watched a short film called 'The Crush' in our lesson today and this has helped me to comprehend what my short film needs to look like.
Friday, 12 June 2015
Introducing my A2 Portfolio
This year in Media our main task is to produce a short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes. It may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with one of the following:
I will be working with Lauren Cook to do this and we have an idea of basing the film around a girl who is blind receiving a guide dog, but we are unsure of the entire narrative at this point.
Our first task however is to do Research and Planning, which I will explain more in my next blog post.
- A poster for the film
- A radio trailer for the film
- A film magazine review page featuring the film
I will be working with Lauren Cook to do this and we have an idea of basing the film around a girl who is blind receiving a guide dog, but we are unsure of the entire narrative at this point.
Our first task however is to do Research and Planning, which I will explain more in my next blog post.
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