After speaking to Zoe and Stephen to find the appropriate times for them to film, we have dedicated a few days over the holidays to film. I also spoke to Jack and Amy for the scenes needed with extras and they have free time meaning we can film several days over the holidays.
Katie and I decided to experiment before filming to see if we could learn from our mistakes. We spent the time taking various different shots and allowed Katie to experiment with editing to give us an understanding of the difficulty of this and how time consuming it actually is!!
Monday- Thursday it is clear we are unavailable to film due to work commitments, however Friday, Saturday and Sunday are all available to film. Friday we contain a couple of hours of filming in which i will now draw up a plan for. Depending on Saturdays weather we are considering filming in the morning however, outdoor shots may not be effective. As you can see by the rota, Sunday is currently standing at a free day and this is a good opportunity to spend the day experimenting our scenes and concentrating on serious filming.
Within the next two weeks we are discussing our availibilty times over the christmas holidays to be able to film. Katie and I are putting together a time table of when we are both free and therefore we can fit our filming in around this.
Thursday, 13 December 2012
For the making of my short film we needed more than one main
actor to play the roles within the film. Due to this I have chosen to ask
people and friends which I believe would be successful to play the roles needed
and take the part seriously. Each individual agreed to take part and were very enthusiastic
to start filming and find out more about the narrative.
I have recently gained feedback on my blog so far to see how detailed my
blog actually is. Although much of the feedback is positive certain blog posts
have been labelled as 'vague'. Due to my audience feedback over my research and
planning so far I feel it would be a good idea to go back through specific
posts and editing them to a higher standard. Another slight issue that has occurred
is speaking about the expected amount of blog entries I am actually a few posts
behind what I feel is expected and therefore have decided my blog recording
should be posted more frequently.
As I am creating a short film I am targeting a niche audience in which I expect them to find my film rather than having several viral marketing techniques to create an audience.Although Katie and I will be advertising our film through one of our Ancillary tasks (poster), on our blogs and through twitter, this will be used as a response for feedback to ensure our viewers enjoy watching our film and stating anything they don't like or would change from our film. We feel we have followed typical short film conventions and in that case we feel our target audience will like our film and through word of mouth the film would become more popular :)!
Creating a silent black and white short film Katie and I decided to look closer into the work of Charlie Chaplin, a man playing a significant role in the change of film making. After watching the silent film City lights and researching further clips on Youtube Katie and I are certain our film could be really effective following the typical conventions.
In this time most short films were based around the male chasing the female, however, we have chosen to modernise our short film and make it the girl being head over heels for the boy, but it doesn't always stay that way.
Significant points in Charlie Chaplins films:
Follows the conventions as seen in many of Charlie Chaplin's silent films (slapstick humour, black and white and dressed in a similar style to Chaplin)
Music is fast paced to link with the energetic movement in the moving image
