Monday 28 September 2009

First Meeting

In our first meeting we all discussed genres for each of our films. We made notes on each of our ideas, and for my genre we all agreed drama was the best choice for me as I wanted to do something realistic, but not a romance or anything genre specific.

Friday 25 September 2009

Ideas!

In Film Studies this year, our coursework consists of creating our own short film or sequence, three to five minutes long and have all the research and writing up to go with it. The film can be a genre of our choice, as long as it is do-able!

Thinking of an idea from such a broad spectrum of film genres is difficult, in fact just choosing a genre is hard. Comedy is difficult, I hate horror, romance is a no-no, so I've come to a conclusion it has to be a drama. But then again drama is a very very big genre as it deals with human emotions, which when it comes to the conventions, themes and stories... it is very diverse indeed.

The idea that I initially came up with was characters running through some trees, running away from something or someone, but you never full saw what it was that was chasing them. Once they had escaped I would then have a short emotional ending to the scene, which would be a good opportunity for some close-ups. But then I thought that this wasn't very interesting or exciting. I think a serious scene would be interesting to do, possibly with elements of paranoia. I was thinking about making it quite gritty, like a really British urban film feel about it... a whole short movie with an ending to make people smile, or maybe just film a nasty dperessive scene. I want to make it quite realistic, I love the idea of making it 'gritty'. Either a really slow, angry conversation between two British gangsters, or someone who is paranoid and angry, maybe on drugs or even coming off drugs. I will keep posting up more ideas for this!!!
I think making just an extract from a film would be much simpler to do, rather than over-complicating things by making a whole short film... I would much prefer to focus totally on one scene.


The people in my film group are Jade Playle and Keeley Lawton. I will now do some research on the Drama genre, and post it up on here soon!

Tuesday 22 September 2009

FM3 Coursework Objectives


Develop an extened sequence from an imagined feature

or

Develop a complete short film of between 3 and 5 minutes.

This is our objective(s) for our creative project. We plan, film and edit our own short film or sequence, use the skills and knowledge developed in FM1 to demonstrate our understanding of stylistics and how cinematography and mise-en-scene creates meaning.