Post 6 - Professionally Made Short Films

The following films I have watched have really helped me to understand what looks good, what looks not so good and what to do to have an impact on the audience. I have watched many short films to widen my understanding of short films and to help give me inspiration for the short film that I will be making.

The Quiet Zone - horror

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Post 17 - Evauluation

Introduction I have created a 5-minute short film based up on the idea of an unmotivated, marginalised student who is more interested in being alone with her phone than amongst others. The main representation is that of a female youth, dealing with misconceptions of hegemony and the media who label them as lazy and troublesome. In reality, I know that there are many young people like this, but nowhere near the number that the mass media portrays . Several of the existing short films I studied represent youth in a similar way, SLAP takes a motivated teen as its protagonist but reveals a secret they keep hidden, Tight Jeans and The Ellington Kid adopt the stereotypical approach of youth as wasting their days and conforming to stereotypes with their conversations through dialogue and character expression and movement, and the setting as contemporary and everyday locations. Echo represents a negative portrayal of female youth and in a way th...

Post 4 - Generating Ideas

At random, we chose numbers that correlated to certain places, characters, objects and times. we collected our results and this is what I got ; Character : the last of the pirates Location : the Tower of London S ituation : a door that leads to the future Object : trees that talk When : next year Plot Synopsis : about the last remaining pirates who have their lives in jeopardy, the only way they are able to live is to gain control and power over T...

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