Harrys Short film

The Ellington kid (Sully, 2012) Narrative: Representation: Micro Elements: Cinematography: Sound: Mise en scene: Performance: Editing: Meaning & Messages: Influence:

The Fly (Williams, 2014) Narrative: Representation: Micro Elements: Cinematography: Sound: Mise en scene: Performance: Editing: Meaning & Messages: Influence:

Operator (Bartlett, 2015) Narrative: We follow an emergency service operator during a night shift in a fire control room. The emergency operator gets a call from a young mother, Gemma, who has accidentally fallen asleep and was awoken by a room full of smoke. Panicking Gemma tells the operator that her child is trapped upstairs as the flames block her path, the operator tells the young mother not to panic and that the fire brigade is on its way but the mother insists on getting to the child. Gemma manages to get to their child just as the fire brigade arrives to save them. The operator in this story is constantly trying to clam Gemma, telling her that shes 'doing so well' to keep her calm, giving us an interesting perspective of this type of situation.   Representation: The film looks into a group of essential workers within the emergency service industry that are often overlooked. We are shown the importance these people have when it comes to the emergency services being esse...

Tight Jeans (Ekaragha, 2008) Narrative: The Narrative follows three black teenagers as they become frustrated with their friend who they're waiting for. As they're waiting a white man wearing skinny jeans walks past, the boys look at him as he walks past until one of them asks the question "How can a man wear jeans that tight?" This question sparks a comedic back and forth between the three boys and launches them into the reason that some men wear tight jeans is based around race and culture they're surrounded with. Representation: The representation of Black teenage Londoners, during the time the short film would have been released the film follows a group of people often overlooked in society. The representation of working class people living in what seems to be in an impoverished neighborhood judging from the council estate in the background of where the three boys are sitting.  Micro Elements: Cinematography: The film starts off with a verity of shots of what ...

  Echo (Arnold, 2013) Narrative: This girl doesn't turn out to be up to what people think. Echo follows a 17 year old girl, Caroline, as she suddenly receives a phone call with some tragic news. Shes told that her Dad has gotten involved in a motorbike accident, panicking she tries tries to get something from her bag. Being in a public area, Caroline is approached by a stranger to see Caroline was alright, kindly they give her money for a taxi to the hospital.  Unexpectedly the girl gets out the taxi and goes home, later on revealing that it was all a ruse to get money from unsuspecting strangers. Curious, Caroline's little brother follows her to finds out what she's up to. During one of Caroline deceptions is interrupted by her little brother. Her little brother asks "how does that man know about what happened to dad?" and revealing to us that their Dad actually died from a motorbike accident. Unexpectedly even though being caught by her brother, we see her perfo...

SLAP (Roland, 2015) Narrative: Slap is a 2015 coming of age short film about a teenage boxer expressing himself through feminine attire and makeup to give him a sense of freedom, confronting the restrictive standards of masculinity. The film begins with our protagonist, Conner, putting on makeup until his father calls for him, were Conner panics and hides the makeup. We cut to him boxing, then introduced to Archie and Lola (his girlfriend). Conner tells Lola he’s ‘training’, but in fact he’s wearing a dress and makeup. This version of himself looks happy and free until he’s interrupted by Archie being chased and beaten by a thug. Conner hesitates before helping Archie, revealing his secret. Archie seems to except Conner and keeps it a secret. Until Lolas party were it all blows up. Conner decides to dress how he wants to dress but is insulted, Lola blows up at Conner, were Archie betrays him and adds to the hate. Conners pent up aggression and frustration ends up with him seriously bea...

Over (Threlfall, 2015) Narrative: A short film based on true events that happend on 9th September 2012, a crime scene unravels through the use of reverse chronological story telling of a mysterious death in a quiet suburb in England. The film starts with the end, from when the body was cleared up to when the body first got there, we are slowly fed information as the film progresses.  Static shots are spliced together to create an interesting minimalist form of storytelling through the use of very simple slow-paced shots which makes the film stand out. The short film gives us context of when we have just witnessed through the use of plain text on screen describing the true events that took place on 9th September 2012.  Representation: The film is meant to highlight the lengths that Immigrants would go through to get away from countries in wars or in poverty, and wanting a better life in places like England. Through this mans death we can establish the life t...

  Generating Ideas - 4 Idea generation - Using a Photo as my stimulus for my own short film ideas  Website for photo link:  https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.acambridgediary.co.uk/september-2020/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1654782969513882&usg=AOvVaw22OrcpJvfw3hOVhSQb5Kl_ An ordinary man going about his day keeps seeing this mysterious girl in a blue dress, trying to talk to this mysterious women but she keeps getting away. After a few attempts, he manages to approaches her, she turns around and she’s a decaying corpse. Then the guy wakes up and it’s a bad dream 

Generating Ideas - 3 Generating ideas using random story generators: Websites Sites used: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blog.reedsy.com/plot-generator/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1653469527459700&usg=AOvVaw1zu-fvZxIPUK5UxPL6wmJu https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.plot-generator.org.uk/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1653469527460193&usg=AOvVaw2FLORBinOBFdwkI7_N4AeQ  

How do i Develop my idea? What if? What if i implanted a chicken egg inside someone’s stomach? Would it hatch? What if a man bathed in moisturiser  What if I accidentally remade the bubonic plague with a nasty sandwich  Confinement Idea Lost in Cambridge Long road gone wild. The student get put in a labyrinth under the school. Truth is stranger than fiction  Opposites attract The Heterosexuals are now the minority and being LGBTQ+ is the norm. It’s a love story like Romeo and Juliet, between the Cis male and Cis women, but the world doesn’t what them to be together. Your day Loosing sleep, each day they loose more and more sleep  Local legends/urban myths 

  Generating Ideas - 1 Random story activity: A creative processes that we went through in class was coming up with stories from random pieces of paper. We were tasked to write on each separate piece of paper  one of these six things: Location Interesting piece of clothing  Interesting prop Line of Dialogue Character (with a bit of detail) Genre When we were done we were give other students pieces of paper to create an interesting plot within a group. These were the what my group was given: This processes was meant to let us use our imaginations, and to think outside the box when it comes to coming up with interesting plots. This is to help us when it comes to us coming up with a plot to our film.  Professional Short Films - Notes and Analysis I must make notes on each professional short film that I need to look at and highlight something specific I intend to incorporate into my own production. They will help me in the followin...

Hot Seating  film idea (e.g. the storyline and how it links to the three act structure) April is peacefully reading her book on 'Witchcraft and spells' and drinking her tea until she's disrupted by the door bell. As she opens the door she's greeted to a mysterious briefcase    How you will have been influenced by the short films Use of micro elements The characters - for each character, why have you chosen: Their props? Their setting? Their costume?

  Short Film planning Plot -  Our main protagonist, April, is peacefully a mysterious book titled 'Witchcraft and spells' until they're interrupted by the sound of somebody at the door. Checking to see who it was an unexpected suitcase sits on the doorstep with no one in sight. Out of curiosity April brings the suitcase inside their house. Opening up the suitcase to what seems like nothing, unknowing of the vicious demon they released into their house. Suddenly the curtains shut and the doors slam. Something coming. April starts panicking, flustered they runs upstairs slamming the door to their room behind them, they then sit forcing the door to stay shut. suddenly loud banging on the door, then silence. April starts to emerge from their room. Quickly they run down stairs running for the door, until they're knocked back by an invisible force. fighting back the demon they sees their book of 'Witchcraft and spells', knowing there's only one way of getting rid ...

  Short Film Planning - Plot When writing up an overview of my short films plot I need to be sure to include: I need direct reference to the three act structure Who are my characters? How many characters am i going to have? What are the characters role in my story’s Narrative How will my film work with elements of film form such as; Cinematography (including lighting), Mise-en-scene, Editing, Sound, Performance. How has the portfolio of short films has influenced me in terms of techniques and use of film form and themes. The film cant be to complicated as it has to fit within 4 - 5 minutes. I will need to be sure to write out a script and story board, to make it easier for myself when filming and developing my short film. Plot idea: A witch is making a potion to get her revenge on her partner who has cheated on her. She constructs a vile potion which is sprayed onto a bouquet of flowers that is given to the witches partner. The women that cheated chokes and dies, as the witch expla...

Component 3: Making Short Film   90 marks - 60 marks on production,  30 marks evaluation  Coursework - 30% of final grade. Learners must study a compilation of short British fiction films.  Learners have the opportunity to demonstrate knowledge, understanding and skills through: • the production of a 4-5 minute short film • an evaluative analysis of the production in relation to professionally produced set short films Requirement from the Board In this component learners will apply knowledge and understanding of the short film and its distinctive narrative form in relation to the production of their own fiction-based short film. Learners will also be required to build upon and develop their knowledge and understanding of genre, representation and how the micro-elements of film form contribute to these and also to aesthetic effect , spectatorship and film poetics . Assessment - apply knowledge and understanding of elements of film to the production of film...