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.