Storyboards

In today's lesson we Faye we did some stuff for our filming, I am in a group with Leah, Taylor and Abbi. We had to make a storyboard on what our short film is going to be based on, and also what sort of shots and effects we were going to use, this way it will help us along the way when we come to start filming clips for our short film.

Short film proposal

My main idea for my short film is going to be based around bullying during school and also college, I want people to realize what the consequences are when bullying is happening and how it makes people feel when people are, name calling, hurting somebody physically, ganging up on one person, and other stuff on social networking sites that make other people feel very low about themselves. My short film is going to based about two different people one boy at secondary school and then a women at college and in the end they are going to eventually meet and help each other along. I'm going to have people bullying them over social networking and during breaks in school and college and I am going to show how people feel when this happens in real life.

I will be using loads of different camera shots, this way it will make the short film look a lot more realistic, I am hoping that this film will make people aware and increase the amount of bullying that happens around the world. Once the audio is shot, I will then be using the software to then edit some of the scenes and add sound to the background of some scenes. The people that will be playing the one getting bullied will be getting really upset and will be one of those that don't fight or argue back and just hides away and does personal things to help them keep calm with all the bullying. 

At the end I am hoping that the bullies will then realize what they have been doing and will apologies and then everything will be sorted and it will proves to people that being normal with everybody and not having bullies around will make a better environment for everybody around them.

The secret to my film will be the fact that their parent's don't know about the bullying so they both keep it all to themselves, and neither does any teachers. Until the end when it all comes out and this problem is sorted.

Questionnaire

Task 1

After taking completing your questionnaire of a minimum of 5 questions, distributing your questionnaie via Facebook and tallying the information, you will create a 300 word analysis with supporting documentation.

Complete the following handout to plan out your analysis:

What type of research did you do? Primary because I was the one that conducted the research and made the survey

                                                                                        

		What type of information did you gather? Quantative and Qualitive
		Who was your target audience? Why? 13+ because the age limit for Facebook where I posted this survey 13 is the limit age.

 

Survey Monkey - Rough ideas.

In today's lesson with Faye, we got introduced to 'Survey Monkey'. We had to create a survey asking for feedback on our short films. We have to ask somebody five or more questions. Here are my questions -

1. What is your name?
2. How old are you?
3. What is your gender?
4. What is your favourite genre of short films?
5. Do you prefer happy films, or films with a meaning? 

Research Technology

Key Research Terminology

What is a Primary source? A primary source is a document that you have yourself and done the research in your own time. Example – A questionnaire

What are Qualitative results? Qualitative results is when you ask questions that give a variety of answers. Qualitative results are the opposite of Quantative results, they can’t be put into a graph. Example – Asking questions that can give someone else’s opinion and not a yes or no answer.

What is Market Research? Market Research is getting information of your audience to improve your work. Example – Survey – Asking people their personal opinion to improve their work.

What are Quantative results? Quantative results is numbers that you can put into a graph and find the majority of the answer. Example – If you ask a question, the only two answers can either be yes or no.

What is a Secondary source? A secondary source is a research that has already been done for you and taken off the internet and used/made by somebody else. Example – Copy and pasting something off google

                                                                                         

Research

I have done some research on other short films that will help me with mine, I watched a few short films that I will now post and talk about on here -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1CqaelVnkY

This was the first film that I watched, the boy in this film feels lonely and like he is in a world of his own where nobody can see him, I can tell this by the video techniques that have been used at the beginning of the video and also the music that had been used during this scene. During the video I notice that he does have one friend but the rest of the school doesn't tend to like him and they tease and bully him by tripping him over and pointing the finger at him so everybody stares. He gets picked on loads but in the end just as he's about to take an over dose, somebody is nice to him and becomes his friend which saves his life.

Brainstorming for short films

Our aim is to make a short film, that is based around a secret of some sort. We had to brain storm some ideas of what we wanted our short film to be based about. My idea was of a young girl getting bullied at school, she got really stressed and depressed so she tried to be like everybody else, she started taking drugs and drinking and going out daily, her parents didn't know any of this until she comes really ill and in hospital. For this I will need really deep, sad background music that will mix in with each scene. The location of this short film will have to be somewhere dull and sort of upsetting where a secret would be kept quiet. I found that making this into a short film will be good as it's really realist as things like this happen on a daily basis with different types of people. For my short movie there will be loads of different action shots. I am hoping that my short movie will help people realize that bullying does course deaths and that is a serious matter.
My short film will be aimed at people in their early teens going up until they are a lot older.

Here is my little brainstorm of some ideas that I put down on paper -

Notes on short films

In lesson we watched two sorts of short films, the first one was -
'Ashes' - by Sophie Black.
I felt like this short film was very deep and dark and had a lot of emotion in the film, the background music was very well matched in each scene and I fount that the voices got a lot louder and deeper at some points in the film. There was non-digestic sound. It was mainly aimed at young adults that were new to being in serious relationships.
The other film called -
'Lemonade' - Eryn Montgomery.
I didn't really understand what the point of this film was, it was mainly like a video log of somebodies life with their friend. It has a lot of peer pressure in the movie between a girl and her friends, there was no background music it was all voices throughout. This film was mainly about a girl trying to make her friend do certain things for the first time in her life, for example her first kiss, there was loads of peer pressure in this film for this girl but by the looks of it, the girl is her only friend so she does it to keep her friendship.