Evaluation Question 1

Before we started filming we looked at short films and some the main stream such as ‘Paul’ it was set on western desert, it was more of a road trip/comedy genre. The starting of the film was Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. These are the comedy actors from previous films such as ‘Shaun of the Dead’. I looked at the camera shots they have used such as shot reveres shot. The theme of the film was buddies, how two friends get along from there I got an idea of having a opposition character where I look like an helpful technician but I turn out to ruin Laura’s life with a twist in the end. I needed a futuristic building in one of my shots so I decided to shoot at Mima Museum which was very modern building and the idea of futuristic location was also related to the film ‘iRobot’ starting with Will Smith. The internal of the Mima building was bright Wight matching the colours of the robots in the ‘iRobot’ and other buildings in the film. To decide the genre of the film we looked at different short films such as ‘Across the Hall’ by Alex Merkin a thriller genre. From there, I decided to have a thriller genre this may keep my audience suspense to see what will happen next. For example as Ahmed takes the laptop to fix it he goes in the future twice with different situations in the scene and it suspense the audience what’s he going to do.

Throughout the film we have used natural light for example when we were shooting at the entrance of Thistle hotel the sunlight was reflecting where Paige was acting, which this created a natural light effect on Paige’s face showing her face expression more effective. What we could improve in the film that when we were shooting at Thistle hotel entrance that light was very low when I was saying my dialogue, we were depending on the natural light from the sky to help us but for next time we need to prepare our own lightings. We have used smart business clothes representing middle class people such as dress pants, suite etc. The clothes were also part of indicating that its audience are business class people. As you can see during the film am wearing normal shirt and dress pant and at the end am malformed in to higher class by wearing suite. It’s showing change from one social class into higher social class. We followed rules for the short films such as it should not be too long, so we had to make within 10min. We followed the script that is on the blog but we added few of the changes which made our script much better.

According to me editing has helped me allot in the film, it has played 70% of the role because that is the point where it makes the scenes more professional and can cut the scenes that you don’t need. It is also is the fun part because my group and me enjoyed editing.

Before we started making our posters we looked at short film poster such as ‘Across the hall’. The way the poster was presented as it was a mainstream film. I also analysed other short film posters such as ‘George Lucas in Love’ so we can get an idea how short films poster appear like and what techniques are being used such as tag line. If you look at mainstream posters such as ‘Cowboy and Aliens’ they don’t have too much writing on and have fewer pictures on. If you compare it with short film poster such as ‘George Lucas in Love’ it contains many character pictures and writing. By analysing these posters thought of wanting something different. So I decided to have a picture of my laptops keyboard because rather than exposing any characters i thought about the keyboard picture and it also shows more of a business look.

Location:

Mima/Terrace

Inside Mima

















Thistle Hotel Reception

Teeside University (close up on the suite, hand etc...)