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.

Story Telling Unit: Post Preduction

Filming pro's and con's/ reflections:

I am happy the way my filming went, the shots I collected was really good especially the one's of Mark walking by the river and the one where he is waiting for his coffee.

I feel I could have been more organised and if  planned a storyboard I would have been a little more organised with the shots.

I feel that if I could change anything it would to be more organised with filming so I don't go onto a shoot not knowing what to do, also I would keep on top of my blog instead of waiting till the last minute.

I am happy with the final result of my work and trailer.
I realised that I prefer editing than script writing.

Story-Telling Unit: 2 Minute Trailer

The Meeting Trailer.

I have used the first 2 minutes of my script to make a trailer.