Evaulation

For this project we got asked to create a short film. To start of this project we was able to watch some short films, we did this to help us understand more about short films and gives us some inspiration for when we start filming our own film. The film that we watched was called ''Ashes' - by Sophie Black'. This film was very emotional and wasn't suitable for young children, the film was about getting into new relationships and what could happen when you get into a difficult one. The other film we watched was called ''Lemonade' - by Eryn Montgomery.  This film was loads of a women's blogs put into one short film, it was mainly about peer pressure and what it can cause. Once we finished this research, we then had to do a Brainstorm of ideas that we wanted our short film to contain, everybody had to do one of these just to give an idea of what we wanted for it to be based around, once we did this, we had to write our own personal proposal, this was also for our ideas but the difference in these two is that a proposal is putting the points together to create the background of the short film. My personal idea for a short film was based around bullying during school and also during 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 and mentally, ganging up on one person, and other stuff on social networking sites that make other people feel very low about themselves. I was planning on using loads of different shots in my short film as I feel like this would of made the film look a little more realistic. I was going to be using some background sound but not much as there will be speaking. I was going to use a sad/quiet song and then I was going to make the voice of the women that was going to be bullied really loud to make it stand out. Once we decided what our personal choice of a movie was like, we got into groups and shared our ideas with our group. I was put in a group with Leah, Taylor and Abbi and we all decided we were going to base our short film around 'Mental health' we decided this because we want people to understand what 'Mental Health' is and what the consequences were. We then all had to decide where we were going to be doing our shots and do a 'location recce' this was just basically going to where we were going to take our shots for the film and make sure that it was suitable and take a picture of it. When looking for locations we had to cheek up on multiple of things,
Here is our 'Location Recce'

Here are the images we had taken for where we are filming for our film -





Once this was decided we then had to create a story board based on our film, this was going to explain in short phase what was going to be happening and some of the shots we were going to use.

Here are the story boards -
 
We did these story boards to help us when we come to filming our shots so we know what we are filming, what shots we are using and the location.

Location Recce

This is the film where we are going to be filming, this field is in Grantham where Abbi lives, we are using this for some of our film.

These are the other locations where we are going to be filming as well for our short film, these are outside college and some inside college.

Evaluation Tips

How to write an Evaluation

Tips -

1. Over view

• For this project we were asked to do...

2. Primary and secondary research

•  What did you do? Why?

3. Planning and pre production

• Brainstorms
• Ideas/Plans
• Specific paperwork

4. Production

• What did you use?
• What settings did you have it on?
• What did you need to do before filming?
• How did you use the kit?
• How did it end up going?

5. Post production

• Finalizing work
• Edits and adjustments

6. What would you do differently?

• If you was to do it again what would you change?
• What did you like?
• What do you think you could of done better?

7. Peer feed back

• See what you can improve
• See if you have missed anything out

Short film specific

Add details on how specific work inspired you

• Directors

Additional research

• Images?

Pull out Specific examples

• Terminology!

 Final production schedule

• Emended - Changing it to be correct

BBFC

In our session today with Faye we were learning about BBFC, BBFC stands for British Board of Film Classification. And their slogan is, 'Age rantings you trust.'

The age ratings are as shown on the picture at the side of this text, all of these are made so that each film is suitable for each age target, this stops young people having nightmares/watching movies that are not suitable for them.

U - U stands for Universal and is from the age of 4 onwards. Movies that are targeted as U have no sexual content, no violence and no inappropriate language.

 PG - PG stand for Parental Guidance. This means that the parents can decide if they want their child to be watching films like this, if so they have to be accompanied by some sort of adult.

12A - 12A  is when you are allowed to go and watch a certain film by yourself if you are over the age of 12, if you are younger than you must be accompanied by some sort of adult.

12 - 12 is when you have to be over the age of 12 to watch the film, even if you are not or are accompanied by an adult. In these films there is discrete sexual content, strong language, comedy (sex references) and mild violence.

15 - 15 is when you have to be 15 or over to watch a certain film, they contain strong violence, sexual content, drug taking, swearing and strong verbal references to sex.

18 - 18 is when you have to be 18 or over to watch a certain film,  they contain quite a lot of strong violence, sexual content, frequent strong language, scenes of sexual violence and strong horror.

As a group, me and my film decided that we were going to make our film a 12A. This is because it contains some depressing sences and we feel that it would be best to make it up to the parents if they think it is suitable for their own children to watch.