Friday, 23 June 2023
Potential questions for focus group
What are the strengths of our short film?
What are the weaknesses of our short film?
What can we improve in our short film?
What would you change about it?
Did you understand the concept of the short film?
What is the best thing about our short film?
What is the worst thing about our short film?
Would you watch this film in your free time? If not, why?
What style of music should we put for this short film?
Thursday, 22 June 2023
FOCUS GROUP FEEDBACK updated
FOCUS GROUP FEEDBACK
what are the strengths of our short film?
Afsarah: It felt really authentic and that she liked our storyline and could see the potential in it. She said that there were some clips that she really liked.
Areeba: I like script and the storyline.
Zayna: The storyline was good
What were the weaknesses of our short film?
Afsarah: It was hard to understand the plot because it was not edited so it was hard to differentiate what the actual plot was. She mentioned how some of the clips were unnecessarily long and that was the main reason confusing her about the storyline.
How would you edit this short film?
Afsarah: I would cut out the bits I don't want and make an actual sequence.
What type of music would you add to this type of film?
Afsarah: Maybe some soft instrumental music for some scenes such as the picnic scene where we are talking but not as much so adding the music would make the scenes less awkward.
What would you change about this?
Afsarah: There is too much focus on the food now. And to make it feel more dream like I would add something out of the ordinary to make the audience question why it is the way it is, then at the end the audience will get their answer and recognise that it was all just a part of Selima's hallucinations. Afsarah also suggested to make some scenes abnormal so that when the audience looks at it, they'll wonder what's happening to make the short film more interesting.
Would you watch this short film in your free time?
Everyone said they would if it was edited and made sense.
WHAT WE WILL IMPROVE ON
We will use their feedback to add to our short film. We will keep our short film feeling authentic and not change the script and storyline too much. We will edit it to make the concept of the film easier to understand and to make it feel more dreamlike like adding effects that would make the shots a little distorted or maybe having a blurry scene for one of the scenes so the audience would be confused on why the scenes got blurry but when Selima wakes up and the audience see that they will start to realise that's why there's all these effects.
Making sure that we cut out some picnic scenes not the dialogue but cutting out the scenes where it's just us eating for a couple of minutes, so that it isn't repetitive for the audience to keep watching.
We will take Afsarah's advice and make sure to add music that is an instrumental, so that it is calming to listen to in the background especially when there is dialogue it isn't disturbing the voices/volume of the characters.
Evidence in filming production
Evidence of filming production
In our first week of filming when we used our DSLR camera to film Hallucination , we set up the camera and the tripod to the correct height and distance to be able to get the footage that we needed. Although we used camera and tripod to film we also had to create good lighting scenes and in order to do this we used 3 point lighting and a portable light that was given to us , even with the light we used our mobile phone torches to help us.
Here we used the portable light given to us which we turned on as well as using natural lighting.
After filming all of our scenes within a week we had to put it in final cut pro however when we listened back to it some of the audio wasn't loud enough and you couldn't hear the actors so we used a microphone to make voice overs of the parts that weren't as clear.
Setting up and operating camera and lighting
we used a three point lighting technique when filming our cinematic scene for unit 18. Creating a 3D look is the main focus of 3 point video lighting. There are three lights that are put in special points around people The lights shine on different parts of the thing or person to make it look like there is more size and shape in the picture.
Conventions of our short film
One of the conventions that we have used in our short film is a twist and this is the part where the audience realises it was all a dream that Selima had and the friends with her were not real it was all a dream. we created this by having a distorted effect on the clips to show that its not all clear and its faded so it gives off the dreamy effect.
Another convention that we have used is creativity and we have used this by creating effects on the short film such as transitions that take us from one scene to the next and then our storyline is also creative as we have created a hallucinating type of film where she believes that all her friends have been with her even after the car accident that they had. Adding music in the background was also creative as we changed the beat and the volume of the music to fit in with the scenes.
our last convention that we have used is emotion, during the short film there are many emotions being shown such as " happiness, sadness, anger" there are emotions being used throughout the short film when she realises that her friends have been dead for a year now and she has just been mourning over them as she's not quite still over the death of her friends.
REGULATIONS IN OUR SHORT FILM
One regulation for our short film was having permission to film in another persons house which we had, simonas mum had allowed us to come over and film inside her house as she was the nearest one who lives local. we needed her permission to film because if we didn't have this then we would not be able to film and we would have to go to someone else house.
we also filmed in seven kings park and as this was a public space we did not need any permission to film so we went along and filmed our picnic scene in the park.
There were no weapons used in our short film as this was mainly made for teenagers and kids so we avoided any use of sensitive content that may offend the audience.
Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Monday, 12 June 2023
Evidence of pre-production material
Me and Reemu and simona looked kept referring back the script when we were filming while directing. We made sure to follow the script but change things where it is needed. Such as changing the dialogue to make it sound more dramatic or to adhere more to the way the cast speaks in their daily life to keep it realistic. We also tried to remember our lines as we were acting too and help our cast remember theirs. We also gave the script to the cast and summarised to them about what this short film 'Hallucinations' would be about to help them get a better understanding. This helped them add their way of looking at the film, helping them perform better. One challenge we faced while filming was that we had to keep going back into my room to check the script, so to avoid that long process we just took a picture of the script, helping us save time. We also looked at the location recce/risk assessment and rushes log
Sunday, 11 June 2023
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