New scene

We are planning to film a short sequence which will go whilst the titles are going, which will be hearing a phone call between the robbers and see them packing equipment. The reason why i thought it would be good if did this is because it would wrap everything togethers and plus it will play with the audiences mind. I think that it is important to film this short section because it would make for a more complete short film which i would be proud to send to various film festivals.

Getting A Location (shaakira)

Getting A Location

Getting the location was one of my job and i think it was one of the hardest task i had to do, as our preferred location was a book shop and if we were to film in a book shop we would be making alot of noise and this was somthing alot of the owners were afraid of , i then whent to a library to see if they would be okay with it and i was told to get intouch with the southwark film council so i would film grove vale or dulwich library however as its a public place i was unable to film there but was told that i could film in kingwood house library and they would open it up on the day it was closed for us to film after I confrimed that that place i had to go online an fill out an application for a filming perment and then was told i had the all clear to film ..

power point

Filming

We were given a license to film at the library at kingswood wood house, I found the actually location of the place shaakira got hard to find so i spent quite a bit of time looking for it. we arranged to meet 30-minutes before the actors so that we can have a plan what we want to do with the location. We looked around and found lots of places we could get good shots. We also rearranged the furniture so that we could get the look we wanted and also give the actors space move.

Most of our actors came on time but our lead male got the times mixed up and said he would be an hour late which was a big problem because we only had 4 hours to film.So we decided to try get some shots that we didn't need him in but it was very hard because he is in nearly all scenes.

when he finally came and we briefed everyone of what we want them to do, we then had problems with the boom mic because the end bit wouldn't stay still, so that took up more time trying to fix it. we then began filming the scene in which the girl goes to talk to the liberian. We had to get it for at least 3 different shots and angles so that we would have lots of options when editing. I had to fill in for this role because one of our actors pulled out so it was difficult because I wasn't actor, so it took a few takes for me to get it right. For the day Shaakira was the one mainly using the camera whilst I was on boom and directing it , the reason why I was given that role is because we both thought its better if the person if the person who came up with the idea should direct it.

one shot we got that we were proud of was the low angle slow zoom of the guy reading the book through the banister, I thought it looked well composed and framed. I few shots i felt went really well was the handheld shots Shaakira and I did, they were steady and the angles were unique. But our favorite shot of the day had to be the scene were they first start flirting with each other. I also thought the composition of the robbers coming in was fantastic.

Parts of filming which i thought could have gone better was firstly the scene of them walking around and flirting could have been better but we didn't have that many aisles to play around with and the space was very small so we weren't able to get a long scene or a variation of shots. I also thought that we weren't able to capture the whole robber scene to the best of our ability due to the time constraints  we weren't able to get everything done.

Leading male

GIANNI – BRUNO SPENA
Contact:Bromley, Kent
Phone: Mobile:
Email: Gianbruno@hotmail.com
Location: South East London
Height: 5'12" Build: medium Hair: Black Eyes: brown
Training
• 2007-2009 BRIT School – BTEC National in Dance (4 GCSEs)
• 2009-2011 BRIT School – BTEC National in Acting (3 A levels)
Special Skills
Accents: • UK South East • Cockney • American-Southern
• Contemporary dance • Jazz dance • Street dance • Choreography • Physical Theatre• Computing • Athletics • Swimming • Tap

2008
Hamlet – by William Shakespeare (Laertes)
Dir. Tom Band and Steve Nealon
Italian Conti Production

2009
Romeo & Juliet – by William Shakespeare (Romeo)
Dir. Tom Band and Steve Nealon
Italian Conti Production

2010
After the Storm – by Simon (Alistair & Sailor dancer)
Dir. Simon
BRIT School TiE Project

Falling Angel – by Holly Farmer (Will & Dad)
Dir. Anijia
BRIT School Student production

Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare (Friar Francis & Leonato)
Dir. Sarah Niven
BRIT School Production

2011
Salome – by Oscar Wilde (Yet to cast)
Dir. Tom Band and Steve Nealon
Italian Conti Student Acting Company

Mad Forest – by Caryl Churchill (Bogdan, Solider 2 & Ghost)
Dir. Imogen
Common Ground Project

Short Film (Name unknown at this time) – by (unknown at this time) (Yet to cast)
Dir. Not yet met
BRIT School Media project

StoryBoard

Production Schedule

Props

Lead actress

                NATASHA BROWN

Personal Details

D.O.B.  10/04/1993       Height 5.5’         

Eyes: Dark Brown           Hair: Black             Build: Medium               Playing Age: 16-20 years

Accents: Standard RP, Cockney, Standard American, American South.

Training

BTEC National Diploma in Acting		The BRIT School	September 2009

Theatre Experience

Year 2011 2010 2010 2009 2009	Role Patsy Venetia Viola Thea Dr Frederick Treves	Production The Rimers of Eldritch After the Storm Twelfth Night Hedda Gabler The Elephant Man	Director Sarah Niven Simon Stephens Ben Stuart Worden Annabelle Rayson	Company The BRIT School The BRIT School The BRIT School The BRIT School Brampton Manor Secondary School
2008 2007	Bugsy Malone Wicked Witch of the West	Bugsy Malone The Wizard of Oz	Joanna Willey Joanna Willey	Fusion Arts Fusion Arts
2007	Titania	A Midsummer Night’s Dream	Joanna Willey	Fusion Arts
2006	Rizzo	Grease	Joanna Willey	Fusion Arts
2006	Helena	A Midsummer Night’s Dream	Annabelle Rayson	Brampton Manor Secondary School

 

Other Experience

·         Voice Over Work For Children’s Theatre – Big Toe Radio Show

Music Skills

·         Singing: Strong Alto. Chorus and Solo Singing

·         Instruments: Pianist. Trumpet player.

Other Skills

·         Workshop Leader

·         Songwriter

·         Stage Combat

·         Contemporary/Street/Jazz Dancer

·         Circus Skills

Check List

Things we need to bring and sort out:

- Camera with tape & battery (Jerome)
-Tripod (jerome)
- Light (shakkira)
-Props (Both)
- Extra money , in case we need a new bulb (both)
-Health and safety information for actors (jerome)
-storyboards and production notes (shakkira)

Health and Safety

These are things we need to do and have to makes sure we and our cast are working in a safe environment:

• Lights must be monitored at all times, kept away from materials and anything it can set alight, Make sure we read the manual, to work it safely 
• We need to make sure that all the wires for equipment are kept in a safe place so no one trips over them 
• Make sure our cast know where all the fire exists are in the location we are filming
• Make sure no fluids are near anything electrical 
• Have a working phone at hand just in case we need to call the emergency services
• Have a 1hr long break to make sure the actors are not over worked
• Make sure we all have access to clean drinking water and toilets
• We will also have short meeting with actors on health and safety, making sure they are able to work safely

Shot List

Shot list; (not in order)

• We want a shot of which ever companies banners which allows us to film in there shop 
• A long shot through the glass of the bookshop window 
• Low angle shot of the man face behind the book 
• A panning shot when the man gets up to find the girl 
• A shot of the end of the girls dress going around the corner of the book shelves 
• Mid shot focus pull when the robber walks in
• Close up shot of them just about to kiss 
• A close up shot of The mans face through the book shelves 
• Wide shot of them seating down 
• Mid close up with a slow zoom of him seating by himself 
• Close up of him smiling 
• High angle shot of him walking the girl walking around the book shelves 
• wide shot showing them in the different aisles 
• A low, wide shot of them under the tabe holding hands 
• Close up of the robber with a sky mask on 
• mid shot of woman coming in through the door

Synopsis

Short synopsis: The film will be about a man meeting a woman in the book/record store, they begin to flirt then in the end there is a twist


The film begins with a young man reading a romantic book in the book store, as he is reading he notices a woman sittng next to him reading the book over his shoulder. Then this is where the match.com flirting style comes in. As he looks at her she looks away. He moves down she mover closer. Then he becomes intrigued by her . She starts to playful walk of around the shop, and the almost start playing hide and seek in a flirty way between the bookshelves. Then  man walks in to the shop unnoticed. As The flirting couple finally  finds eachother  they are about to kiss they are interuppted by a man shouting “everybody get down” robbing the shop.

The last shot is them holding hands hiding under the table

Music board

These are a few songs which we thought would go with our film well, so this is kind of a sound board of copyright free music that we could later feature in our short film. Music well be vital to our film because there isnt hardly any talking

The music that we have up is kind of quirky but this not a defiantly the music we will use but just what we like



On A Sunny Day - Ukulele Sunnyboy by Ukulele Sunnyboy

A grand ole day on Friendfeed by joshhaley

Let's Go Slow by Vela Vox by LittleBlueSkeletonRecords

Play The Game - Ukulele Sunnyboy by Ukulele Sunnyboy
Plain Lazy Ukulele by SNORK3L
ScratchingColours indie/FolkMixTape June2010 by ScratchingColours2
Indie & Folk by Pecoar
I really like the song why dont you stay her i think it would be perfect for our film 
 

What our idea is based on?

After coming up with the ideas we thought we would gain inspiration from and we want to make our film in this style



The things we like about this advert its very unique and the flirting is quirky and almost cute. it may be diffcult to do this exactly because if we get dodgey shots then it will ruin i
We also like the music its would suit our film our idea perfectly.

we also like the movement in this film when they are flirting once again its very quirky and charming. the setting is great as well because its a weird thing to do in such a public place where and everyone seems oblivious.

Santa Barbara

The  Santa Barbara International film festival is a non profit film festival and organization, which show  cases independent films from around the globe. The newly expanded 11 days festival was established in 1985. The world Famous Arlington Theatre plays host to the first and last night of the festival. The Film festival is for feature films and is not genre specific. Films featured come from well known and unknown directors. The Festivals draws in many celebrities.

The festival location has a historic roots in the film industry. It was were the once struggling studio nicknamed flying a was located, it was built on a abandon ostrich farm. Once the film studio began to improve with the arrival of Samuel Hutchinson they started making alot of short films with the average time 14minutes. The film company eventually got bigger and bigger until the great depression came and they had to close there doors.

Since the many famous films such as Sea biscuit and of mice and men have been has been made in the same area

The 10-10-10 feature of a the festival gives 10 students the chance to make a ten minute films which will be featured in the festival. Which is good because it gives young people a chance to get in the industry

The Santa Barbara films festivals has included 20 world premieres 

1. santa barbara- www.wikepedia.com

2. santa barbara- http://sbiff.org/main/

Steal away

Steal away from the collection of film the tube tales

class notes which were done as a spider diagram

Setting atmosphere:

• cross in car which we don't really take much notice off but is symbolic in the end
• non diegetic sound makes it feel like it is going to bee a heist film
• The film is set in london
• All the rings on the drivers finger makes it feel like it going to be a gritty British "guy ritchie style" cottony heist film
• money for title makes it feel like it is going to have a key role in the whole film

Start of film:

• throws us right into the story and bulid suspense when she is waiting in the tunnel

Shots/editing:

• they use reaction and focus pull well in this film for example the part when she turns back in the tunnel waiting to see of Michael comes
• pov makes the audience feel like a part of the film
• they slow down the film in certain parts to build suspense

Character:

• Micheal seems to be the leader out of the to but seems like he is just trying to make her happy
• She seems to find a thrill out of stealing and finds it a turn on. the tattoo show she is rebel

Middle:

• when the start to use the water to clean themselves it is almost like it represents a spiritual cleanse
• The train comes from now where and seems like that it is a ghost train, the preacher that is preaching seems to be annoying people but also getting good reactions by others
• The man not accepting the money from the lady shows that the lady feels that’s the only thing they can offer her
• biblical the man washing the feet like Jesus and when Michael watches his feet, the light start flicker and then they become cleansed

Ending:

• the end of the film shows that the tube journey was like judgement day and the way se isn't allowed through is effective
• the style of the ending is different and the part when the drunk man is not allowed through clarifies everything
• We finally find that he is dead and at the end the gospel music is very effective
• I thought that the "heaven" bit could have been doing better

Genre:

• The director plays with out expectations of the genre of the film by putting  a great twist on it

Short Film Festivals

Short film festivals have been going on for many years know ranging from the as genre allowed to film specification. Short film festivals allows short film directors to connect with there audience and also to get critical acclaim. It acts as a springboard for new directors to get into the industry.

Short film festivals vary you can be at a festival with under 100 other people an go to another with over a 1000 people. You can find festivals for all types of shorts films and certain requirement needed like being a filmed on a video phones. This was done by the nokia film festival which required all film to be filmed on a video phone , which was done greatly by shane meadow.

Some of the biggest film festivals are the LA Film Festival and the London. The la fim festivals draws in crowds of other 1500  people.Whilst the london festival get over 6000 peopel

Short film festivals are vital because they offer directors a spring board to get into feature film making by showing production companies that there film style is liked by audience and critics alike. They also allow audiences to watch films they wouldn't normally see and a higher standard of some you could on the internet.

Avant Garde

Avant garde are sometimes viewed as cinematic poetry. The mainly abstract style endears and intrigues film critics; the films purposely avoid conventions of normal films and film narratives

The French term avant garde is translated as “ahead of the crowd” in English. So avant garde film makes strive to come up with new films ideas, dealing with subjects and the surreal which has never been touched on before. They experiment with sound, camera techniques and expressions making them as artistic as possible whilst leading a strand. So a avant garde film is characterized with a high a degree of experimentation, which a allows it to look different which often comes with a manipulation of the narrative primary compounds or sometimes a radical change from the norms / conventions of the current times.

David Curtis in 1971 popularized a new term for the films called “Experimental cinema” with the sense that the experiments to explore how the camera can emulate or enhance visual perceptions.

Most renowned directors for Avant Garde films is Maya Deren. The Ukrainian used some of the inheritance from her father to purchase her camera. She used this camera to make her first and best-known film “Meshes of the Afternoon” which is about a solitary flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a phone off the hook

I dont really know what to say about the film except it is very weird and I don't really know how to anlaylis it.  The film obviously has a deeper meaning than what we see.

As a powerful self promoter, Deren did many things to support avant garde. she  wrote articles and books, made avantgarde films, helt "lecture study demonstrations". She even created a scholarship for experimental and avant garde filmmakers, called Creative Film Foundatiom.He post war effort were instrumental in drawing out other avant garde film directors.

Silver films production company

Sliver films is one of the best short film production companies. It was founded in 1996 by producer Janey de Nordwall, who join ten years later with commercials director Richard Oliver. There films are known for it high production value, they do films for different purposes but the main being commercial and advertisement.


There motto is " We believe that if you talk to people, rather than shout, they listen. If they’re listening, you can connect with them" , meaning that rather than shove a message down someone throat in a self righteous way you can get your message across in a more subtle and not judgemental way


They do a lot of automotive commercials like the one below but instead thinking of  them as  just adverts they view them as short mood films which shows there feeling on what tone the car has and also they feeling you gain when driving it




They have created five award winning short film including the bafta winning about a girl. They believe that a short film can now become a powerful marketing tool for charities; helping to raise funding and affect change as well as fulfilling criteria for socially responsible brand. They also did the oscar nominated "talking with angels"


there lastest film garden with red roses it currently been featured in many film festivals. Sliver film's short films even though they are rare are known to be of great quality which is evident by just looking at the amount of nominations they have 

1. Sliver films - http://www.silverfilms.co.uk/
2. Videos- www.youtube.com

history

"I am married" prelim task

I am Married from BDC on Vimeo.

Our task was to in small groups film a short film with a narrative:

-      -   Character opens the door

-       - Walks across the room

-     -   Is met with another person and begins a conversation

Well to be honest apart from the first day of filming with jus katie and I i didnt really get to involved in this task because i felt like i was just being used as the scape goat for the group. When it was filming day It was just me and katie because sam waas not in. We didnt have much ideas of what to do and how to film us having a conversation but i thought what we eventually filmed was decent. When log and capturing the footage by myself the computer started to freeze up so i i quick press save. The next time when editing te orignal footage i got a bit invovled. But then i was ill so i couldnt bring in the tape when my group said the footage was lost

Short Films on the internet

The Internet has been and a great way to watch short films, particularly via YouTube. Now other sites, such as Vimeo, that have HD quality, are becoming the vehicles of choice for film-makers wanting to show off their skills. Internet allowing easy access to an audience and fan base has made it the main way young unknown directors freely publish there film on internet to get recogation. Of course, the problem of how to make such movies cost-effective exists, but, for consumers at least, there has never been a better time to seek out and watch short films.

The internet has been the start of many careers and it the promtion aspect of it is amazing because people can just embedded it in any social and some non social website instantly giving you free promtion. The only problem is getting first seen.

BBC short film network is a website which publishes top films from known and unknown directors whih they have reviewed themselves and thought it fit to be on the website. So unlike Vimeo and Youtube you cant just upload your videos and its going to the audience striaght away , its has to been approved by the bbc. Which can been seen as a good thing to the audiene because it means it will have a level quality about it. Coffee shorts is similair but it instead it finds the directors soome times and also it deals with mainly indie films. Bbc fil network is also a good place to find information about a short film or directoe because once they have uploaded your video they create a profile

The internet is essential for short films because unlike feature film a short film is rarely  shown in cinema so meaning it thier is little money init. So by using a site like youtube its not really none for money but it is done to get notice, even though top directors and amazing new ones can make money via sites like youtube by allowing ads to  be in and around there video and page.

Encounters Short Film Festival

The Encouters International Short Film Festival will be hosting there 16th awards next month.It includes to festivals which are brief Encounters and animated Encounters , it is done around the bristol area

Only in 2006 merging to one, so in 1995 as Brief Encounters originally , the makers thought it would be a one of event to mark the centenary of cinema. It proved so popular that it is now an annual attraction and known as one of the most respected short film festivals and gaining international acclaim with it drawing in more crowds every day

They have no real restrctions on films accept time, every genre is allowed from animation to Drama to musi videos. The festival has been the place where  some amazing short films have been made such as Boxer and The best man. The appeal of this festival has drawn in directors such as Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank), Tom Harper (The Scouting Book for Boys) and Eran Creevy (Shifty)  who come as spectators and also do Q&A

Cinema 16

Here is the empire magazines review of cinema 16, I will then be choosing and anylazing my favorite films from this collection

Plot
A selection of short films from some of Europe's best directors.

Review
Compilations always have low points, and neither Javier Fesser nor Jan Kounen's contributions will win new fans. However, there are shorts here that intrigue and impress with their visual ingenuity (including early efforts by Lars Von Trier and Tom Tykwer).

But it's the old guard who provide the highlights - Krzyzstof Kieslowski's biting Concert Of Requests, Roy Andersson's bleakly satirical World Of Glory and Jean-Luc Godard's charming Charlotte Et Véronique.

Verdict
The chance to see early work from some European greats more than makes up for a few weaker entries.


Reviewer: David Parkinson

Oscar winning Shorts

Shorts Which has won OSCAR'S since 2000 

2000- Quiero ser (I want to be ...)

Directed by Florian Gallenberger

2001- The Accountant

Directed by Ray McKinnon & Lisa Blount



2002- This Charming Man

Directed by Martin Strange-Hansen

2003- Two Soldiers

Directed by Aaron Schneider& Andrew J. Sacks

2004- Wasp

Directed by Andrea Arnold

2005- Six Shooter

Directed by Martin McDonagh

2006- West Bank Story

Directed by Ari Sandel

2007- Le Mozart des Pickpockets

Directed by Philippe Pollet-Villard

2008- Spielzeugland (Toyland)

Directed by Jochen Alexander Freydank

2009- The New Tenants

Directed by Jochen Alexander Freydank