Effective short films.

This short film captured my attention because it was filmed completely differently from other films. What I found extremely appealing was the fact the film was back to front, so we found out the ending before the beginning. The opening left us asking questions like 'why is he in such a rush to tell her everything' and 'why the strong heartbeat in the background' this all became more clearer when we found out the beginning of the story. There was no dialogue in this short, which made us watch the film & subtitles more closely. This film pointed out everyones faults and showed how it is so easy to fix, this can be the subtitle message to everyone. Don't wait until the last minute to tell someone something you've always wanted too.







This short film has one audience pleasure which made is the success it is. That audience pleasure is laughter, everyone likes a laugh therefore drawing in a wide audience. The editing of the running was done really, each cut showed a different location and it made sense due to all the twists and turns he had experienced. Another reason why it might be effective is how it can relate to so many people. Calling someone with long hair 'bieber' is what alot of people do, this allows the audience to connect with the protagonist. Also, it seemed so serious and we didn't know what had quite gone on at the begining, but because of the ending. It makes it clear what he attempted to do before the scene was shot.




This short film is quite similar to the other one. This leaves questions at the end such as 'I wonder if they have a dispute over it' and 'Why didn't he just sat no offense'
Another audience pleasure is the comedy in it, the dialouge all makes sense and focuses more on the camera and editing more than anything else. The editing makes the cuts all look snappy are realistic, the continuity is perfect. The camera shows all convosations from both of the guys view. Which allowed us to see how they both react to the convosation, this added to the humour because some of the reactions would be very unlikely in real life but makes us laugh. Another reason why this is effective because its very simple, just like the others but keeps us interested even though its a simple idea.

Story ideas

'London Fashion Week usually brings forth a shock or two from cutting-edge designers, but a September creation by Rachel Freire might have raised the bar: a floor-length dress made from 3,000 cow nipples (designed to resemble roses). Initial disgust for the garment centered on implied animal abuse, but Freire deflected that issue by pointing out that the nipples had been discarded by a tannery and that her use amounted to "recycling." The 32-year-old Freire, who has worked with mainstream entertainers such as Christina Aguilera, was kept so busy with the animal-abuse angle that she was largely spared having to explain another issue -- why anyone would want to wear a dress made with cow nipples'
This story made me come up with a comedy styled action film. Everyone is wearing their usual every day stuff, and a teacher decides to dress up as a cow. Due to a weird phonomenem, everyone gets the powers or expertise of their costume. So for example, this teacher is able to use a milk gun and seems to eat alot of grass. A antagonist dressed up in a superhero costume somewhere gets superhero powers and the teacher with cow powers attempts to stop them.

An anonymous donor left 40 million yen in cash in a public toilet at the Hachinohe municipal government office in Aomori Prefecture with a note asking that the money be given to four prefectures affected by the March 11 disaster, according to city officials. Bundles of 10,000 yen bills in a paper bag were found in a tote bag in the toilet. A letter in a paper bag containing the cash said the donor wanted to donate 10 million yen each to Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, according to the municipal office. The donor signed the letter, "Tohokujin," meaning a person from the Tohoku region. (Yomiur)

Someone finds a large stash of money, a few million pound and they use it for their own benefit rather than everyone else's. Greed consumes the person till they lose everything that they have. Then trys to get life on track with his family hating him and trying to regain the love of his ex but because his love for money, will this be possible?

The tottenham riotsSeeing  a big commotion happen due to your mishappening, for example. Cheating on an exam causes someone else to fail because the teacher believed they copied of the cheater. Then see how the familys fall out.

Kids receive X-rated prizes from school district.

In Tallahassee, Florida, school administrators hoped to reward students for their A+ fund-raising efforts. They did. School administrators unwittingly gave the hard-working students X-rated gifts. School officials scrambled to collect more than 100 bracelets distributed to students involved in the fund-raising drive after pictures of naked women were found hidden beneath the bracelets’ cloth coverings. The district is continuing efforts to retrieve the” indecent prizes.” Only a handful were returned.

A teacher comes to a slack, poor, broken down school. Starts with the 'Brainy students' and they're harder to work with than the more dumb students in his old school, he works through all their problems. They make his life hell, but pulls through and bonds with all the students. Gets kicked out for giving some x rated stuff out. Students petition untill they got him back.

Prelim task evaluation

I worked with Rebecca Auguste on my prelim task, we worked well together and split the work evenly putting enough pressure on both of us to cope. We used each others strengths for our own good, where I was weak at drawing and visual presentation, Rebecca would make up for it. We organised our time to complete the prelim task on a Monday, we wasn't able to complete it on this day due to the fact that our actors didn't show up, so our reliability of the actors was a issue. We dealt with this problem well by changing the day we original planned on filming to a Wednesday with new actors that were more reliable and completed the acting for us. Our strengths were working together during filming and class but our weaknesses were communicating outside of class due to lack of contact. If I was to re-do my task, I would change my actors because they caused alot of problems.
We planned our sequence using a storyboard, we made a rough copy with dialogue at the bottom of each shot and then went to our teacher for advice. Every bit of advice we was given we used to alter out story board, we ended up cutting shots out and replacing them with shots that were more effective. Changing the position of dialogue and the order of all shots. In the end, our storyboard looked completely different. Even before we did our storyboard, we sat down together and decided what the theme of the story was going to be. We had multiple options, from a proposal to pregnancy. Pregnancy was to cliché therefore we thought staying away from that idea would be a good thing and proposal would be to cheesy and may lose the power of the shots that we could of had.
We used a camera, tripod, external hard drive and editing software to complete the task. Everything mentioned is a necessity, without it we couldn't of completed out task. We obviously used the camera to record record our scene, but there was alot more than just 'recording'. We had to make sure the spirit level was always correct, otherwise the shot would of looked wonky. Also we had to make sure the tape was in correctly, and rewinded back to the beginning of the tape to make sure our shots weren't spread all across the place. The tripod was used to make sure the shot was steady and didn't have any unwanted movements, such as shaking and sudden jerks. I learnt alot about cameras; such as how to set them up, and take them down again. These skills are gonna be very vital if I'm to do well in this course.
Factors we had to take into account when making our prelim task was organising a room for us to record in, we booked our drama room out for Monday after school, but because the actors didn't show up, this caused a problem with where we was going to record. We spoke to the drama teacher again and asked if we could do it again another day, due to her kind nature, she allowed us to use the drama room on the Wednesday instead.
I believe our sequence went well because it was well planned and on the day we spent our time well, we showed the actors what they had to do before we even got the camera set out. This was so they could practice there dialogue and gestures before we started recording. This helped us as we didn't have to keep stopping to tell them what to do next.
I have learnt alot from the prelim task, mainly how effective the rule of thirds are. The rule of thirds make each shot more aesthetically more pleasing therefore drawing people to certain parts of the scene. It also shows the difference between the background and foreground so it helps people understand certain aspects of the scene. I also learnt how to work with someone who I don't normally work with better in a group. We were more vocal and communicated well which helped during the filming of the scene, but because we don't talk outside of media, we struggled doing things outside of lesson. I also learnt how to use a camera well, from the fundamentals to the more complicated parts, before this prelim task I had never touched a video camera.
I learnt basically everything I know about editing our own work from the prelim task. I learnt about cutting and dragging different shots etc. We spent out time well editing, we spent our time in lesson very effectively and got the editing finished before most groups. I believe our strengths was picking each shot effectively and if it didn't look right, we changed it as soon possible. I believe our weakness was communicating during this task, we most did it individually which is a problem as its good to practice working together.