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.