Directions Unit: My Idea

A Journey through…Sorrow

My main character is a male aged 28, Jamie who is tall, between 5ft 11 and 6ft 2, with brunette hair and recently he looks tired and scruffy. Jamie is a newly single man who works in an office for a living. His girlfriend who he just got engaged too passed away a couple of months before.

The second character is a female aged 24, Lauren who works for her dad at a funeral parlour, she wears smart suits and high heels. Lauren is kind to everyone and could be Jamie's next potential partner. She has long brunette hair and is pale in colour.

My locations:
The "Home" location will actually be at a house, a small 2 bedroom house which would have been decorated by Jamie's girlfriend Lucy. There is is fireplace in the lounge by the coffee table and a cream carpet. Their bedroom has dark flowery curtains and cushions which would be on the bed, there is photographs and little little around the walls.

Some of my other locations are an Alley way where Jamie hesitates, outside a funeral parlour where he will meet Lauren to collect the parcel and in the high street on his way to collect the parcel. I chose these as there would be plenty of people around and they fitted my version of the script and what i wanted to create.

The parcel:
The package that Jamie collects will be an Urn, this is Lucy's Urn (Jamie's previous girlfriend)

Directions Unit: The Note task

This is a task we did in class so we could practice being a director, I directed this piece using Roxanne Meats as my cameraman and Sophie Marriott and my Actress.
I feel that by doing this task i have got the chance to experience what being a director takes before i go and do it for myself in a couple of weeks, I learnt that it can't be rushed and you should have some idea's before going on set about what you want.

Directions: Star now

Here is my listings for the 4-minute short production on sorrow.

Directions Unit: Project Brief

In the new topic Directions there is 3 different projects: the 4-minute Dramatic film, the Director Statement and the 1-minute Sound Clip.

The 4-minute Dramatic film:
For this we was given a script which we would have to interpret in our way and create a storyline behind the script that would fit into one of our chosen category: Sorrow, Loneliness, Love, Anger and Freedom.
I chose Sorrow.
I chose Sorrow as I came up with a storyline that would fit the script, it is about a Male who has just lost his Fiance and has to go on a Journey to collect her Urn. Along the way he meets up with the daughter of the manger of the funeral place which i though could be a potential partner in the future.

The Director Statement:
This is document which covers everything i will do to achieve the end result of the 4-minute piece, this includes the approaches of props, clothing, weather and locations.

1-minute Sound clip:
We are given a choice of Gregory Crewdson's Photograph that we have to use to create the illusion of being a moving image by using sounds and the movement of the photography. We have to use Royalty free and by using no music, this will be done by using Foley, FX etc.

Directions

We have just started the Directions unit, the first task is to chose a Gregory Crewdson photo from these to create a 1 minutes sound clip:

We was given a decision of six photos.

I chose to use the Flooded Room one, as I believe I can create a story out of this just by editing the picture and sound.

Story Tellig Unit: Screening

In the screening of our work this week my work was given praise and criticism. The criticism of my work I thought was fair and not too harsh, I was told that I had a spelling mistake in my trailer, it says 'when man meets women' but it should say 'when man meets woman' but not everyone picked up on it as its not a big mistake. Some of the praise I got was the audio went well with my trailer and the sound made it good, also the way I used slow and hold throughout the trailer.

Story Telling Unit: Editing

I spent overall 3 days at Maidstone studios editing, it took this long as every time I thought I had the clips together I changed it. I showed Simon after 2 days and he had suggestions so I spent the next day editing again.
I found the music from youtube and I found that the easiest bit of editing, once I knew where I wanted each part of the song to go to it was easily placed.
I found the lessons on Final cut pro very helpful as I had no idea how to use the software before and know I have experimented with I by creating the trailer I am comfortable with it.