MUSIC VIDEOS

The last two posts i made were music video's i found on the internet that had a narrative running through them independant to the song
one of the points gained from my questionnaire was that short film is often best with minimal dialogue this is where these videos have flourished . They raise emotion and a constructed storyline through the imagary aconography and shots used in their construction.
elements we will have to use in our short film

music videos

white lies - bigger than us from EL NINO on Vimeo.

 

 

where do you watch short films ? 

you tube

shorts tv

internet sites 

cinema

film festivals

whats your favourite genre

horror 

romcom

comedy

indie

action

what is your favourite short film you have seen ?

some films

what makes a good short film ?

happy ending

twist in the plot
no dialogue
inconclusive ending

audience research interview

audience research from abigail bell on Vimeo.

storyboarding

storyboard for a short film from abigail bell on Vimeo.

task in which we were given the title "the outsider" and come up with a storyboard for a film with this title and an inventive way of depicting our ideas.

FIRST IDEAS

reviews!

EXPERIMENTS WITH LIGHTING

We looked at how lighting of a picture/ movie can relate it to genre or create a different feeling or mood in a scene or scenes . We chose to do some horror themed images to show this using the studio  lighting ...
 this way of lighting under the face creates really prominant shadows obscuring features.

the purple/ magenta filter was the one we tried first i think it would work better in red  as then it would be more 'bloody' looking , the shadows cast because the lights are slightly lower and from one side are elongated and distorted. This is good for the mystery and demeanor  of the killer  presented

the green fiter creates a stereotypically 'Horror" scene even without the iconography of the blood on the wall and the killers axe

Mise en scene

Micro Feature: Mise en Scene

Mise-en-Scene is a French term, which translates as: ‘placing on stage’.

Setting and Location can indicate:

·      The historical time period of the film

·      The state of mind of the film’s protagonists

·      The point in the film’s narrative that has been reached.

     Décor can communicate information about:

·      Character

·      Genre

·      Atmosphere

 Body Language and Movement can suggest:

·      How a character feels or indicate

One characters response to the others.

  Props are objects within the scene being used by a character.  They    often contribute to narrative information.  They can provide:

·      Genre information

·      Character  information

  Costume and Make Up can contribute to communicating:

·      A sense of historical time

·      Information about a character

·      ‘Other’ worlds

CHANGING THE MISE EN SCENE
this task was to show that mise en scene can be changed e were given the scenario of a scene from the film 'Delecatessen' directed by Jean-Jierre Jeunet and Marc Caro in which a short sighted girl goes on a date with a boy that causes all kinds of chaos.