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.