Crystal Chan - Film Studies

What is short film? vs feature length films? Short films can be defined as 'a film with a running time of 40 minute or less, including all credits', according to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Genre - Categories for films based on semantic elements - m-e-s, editing, cinematography and lighting - and syntactic elements - narrative. Narrative - First defined by Aristotle as three part structures - Beginning, middle and end Then developed by theorists such as Todorov and Barthes into five act structures. From Seneca's plays to Barthes' films climaxed shifted from act three to four. now narratives generally follow the pattern of Exposition, development, complication, climax and then resolution. Encoding and decoding - Stuart Hall and film meanings By the creators and by the consumers The preferred reading, the alternative and the negotiated Endings : Open, closed and ambiguous. The length of short films and the niche audience allows for a m

SHORT FILM A-LEVEL COURSEWORK OCR Locations Rose garden Bench in brockwell park My living room My bedroom

SHORT FILM A-LEVEL COURSEWORK OCR The final product on youtube: https://youtu.be/VViO6732Q1Y SCRIPT Mia adjusting hair and clothes and talking to C behind camera Crystal: You ready? Mia: (puts paper down) Yeah. C: (muffled speaking) Mia glances at the camera CUT - she’s facing camera in same place C: So. How did you and Leo meet? M: Well.. (thinking and looks up at C) it- C: (whispers) Remember to talk to the camera M: oh, yeah. (turns to the camera) It was about two years ago. We were all at the park and I knew one of his friends- CUT to the memory when they met in park M V: We started hanging out as a group Mia turns. Then CUT to tracking of group of boys and close up of Leo Boy laughing then laughter fades into smile Mia: I was closest with him out of all our friends. We had a similar sense of humour so it was inevitable. CUT to group of girls and close up of Mia. She looks directly at him and smiles. CUT back to interv

SHORT FILM - A-LEVEL COURSEWORK FOR OCR Shot list - schedule for shooting Yellow highlighted were ones that needed to be redone.

6 SHORT FILMS - MICROELEMENTS SLAP - Nick Rowland Mise en scene: Use of mirrors - how the film addresses issues with identity. Connor seeing himself with makeup and boxing. public v private.  cracked mirror suggests how he cannot be himself and has difficulty seeing and expressing the real him to the people around him The posters of half-naked women in Connor's room are his symbolic beard to deceive his father into thinking he is a typical masculine/'macho' teenage boy. admiration of women's bodies and his desire to dress and look like a female.  Lighting: Simple and natural. In the party scene, the strong red light adds to the tension and impaired vision - confusion. anger, therefore conveying the frustration that Connor feels in that no one understands gloomy greenish lighting in the toilet at the party accentuates the shadows on Connor's face suggesting this is a dark place for him. isolated, alone and separate from society echoes Conno

FRAME 1 - KNIFE BEAT MEAT SOUND  : knife bangs and drags across cutting board - suggestion of violence/attack               bang is repeated - imitate footsteps or something approaching/threatening                                silence in the background is ominous SCREEN  : lighting puts person in darker shade - only hands shown/no identity - suggest something sinister about them                   raw meat is slightly gruesome image                    bigger knife - connotations of something brutal "big motherfucking knife"          FRAME 2 - BEEFY N NATHAN SOUND : shuffling - Beefy sitting down - natural sense of realism SCREEN  : contrast between characters - almost comically opposite (characteristically and physically)                   able to use stereotypes in order to understand characters quickly                   Nathan wears over sized leather jacket and baggy jeans - unfitting (feeble/ clown )                   Beefy wears matchi