Short film evaluation.

Short Film Evaluation

For this project that we we were set we had to think up of our own short film idea that was appropriate for our audience that was 16+. We were put into three's and we watched some short films from different genres and we ended up watching one called "ashes" by Sophie black and to be honest in my opinion i thought the film was really weird, i didn't really enjoy watching it. I got that this film was about sadness and happiness but also about love, anger and fear and I absolutely hated it but i loved "the truth about meeting a woman" by Tj Misly, it was basically about a guy who made up different scenarios in his head to apply fear and avoid speaking to them. It was this that inspired me to create "one minute man". It was about a man going through some "difficulties". Basically what had  happened is he'd lost his virginity to a girl that he'd just met so basically a one night stand and the girl tells everyone. He finds out when someone sticks a sticker on his back that says "One Minute Man" and then all these different thoughts keep on going through his head about how his reputation is ruined and how he'll never show his face again. I think its a pretty hilarious idea and i hope it makes people laugh. 

My primary research was a survey I did on survey monkey. The survey came back as most people liked horror, adventure and comedy. So that's another reason as to why I chose to do "one minute man". My secondary research was the short films we watched that i explained above.

My pre production went okay, we did the story board and thought it went decent but when we actually started filming we added a pan shot at the start which wasn't in there on our storyboard and then we realised that the shots were in the wrong order so we followed the story board half and half ish. We did our shooting schedule and followed it in the right order, well a bit better than we followed the storyboard anyway. We shot at least five shots for each shot we needed so that we could pick what one was the best to use and that we 100% got it right.

The editing (which i thought was going to be the hardest point) actually went really smoothly! There was no crashes in the computer where we lost all our work or anything or forgot to save, the computers did lag and nearly crashed quite a few times though but that's okay compared to some of the other times when the computers would totally crash. The sorts of software i used were Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015. This system was very useful as it let us add in text, cut and paste video clips and sound etc and also let us manage those sound tracks easily. We used the razor tool, the add text tool, the sound management tool to make sure the voiceovers were louder than the background music so you could hear the voices, the track select forward and backwards tool, the speed/duration and the fade in effect at the start of the film.