Classroom script

 

 

I have started filming scenes for my short film, and so far I have filmed an outdoors scene where the characters are walking towards the school. I am also preparing to film another scene, which will be quite a pivotal point in the film. The scene that I'm wanting to film is the classroom scene, which is the point in the film where the audience will start to understand the plot of the story. I have made a script in which I plan to stick to, and how I want the scene to play out. 

Character Theory

Narative Theories

Location emailing

 

As I am wanting to film a section of my short film in a cemetery, and I knew that it would be best for me to get permission to film there first instead of just going there and filming anyways. As it is in a cemetery, I explained in the email that I will not be using any of the existing graves on the location and that they will merely be in the background, and that I will be taking my own fake grave with me to use on a spare patch of grass that they have at the back of the cemetery.

 

As well as this, I also explained that whilst filming we will be completely respectful and mindful of the graves, and any visitors on the grounds at the time of filming. I explained that this is only for my media coursework, and that it will be posted on a personal school blog and YouTube for the moderator to see. 

Short film editing practise: Love Compilation.

In preparation for creating my short film, we were given the task to edit clips from different films on iMovie, into our own film. Myself and two other people decided that we would use clips from 5 different films; The Fault In Our Stars, A Walk To Remember, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Stuck In Love and The Notebook. We decided to use several clips from each film to represent love and relationships, and how love can turn sour in any relationship at any given time. The song that we used for the film was 'Say Something' by A Great Big World ft. Christina Aguilera, as we thought that this song would fit perfectly. All three of us searched through YouTube to find different clips from all 5 films that we felt would look to represent love, and that would fit with the song. We took turns in editing the film, and found that we were able to portray exactly what we wanted in the exact length of time as the song.



Storyboard changes

At the moment I am working on my storyboards for my short film, so that I can map out exactly what I want to film. Before this I created a shot list, of specific shots that I definitely want to include in my final short film.

However, I have came to realise upon looking at my shot list that there are more shots that I want to add, and that there are going to have to be several reaction shots included in my storyboards. I have kept a lot of the original shots that I wanted to include in my storyboards, but I have added shots that I feel as though will need to be included to improve the audiences understanding of the storyline more.