Audience feedback from our Short Film

The feedback we received for our short film 'Facebook Famous' was agreeable as we did have a few mistakes which made our short film look not as professional as we would have liked it to be. The first problem we were told was about our actors as they were not fit for the role we had them playing, the actors had no experience and this was their first time hence the reason they were not as confident. We were also told that if the actors were playing a 'geek' role they needed to look like it as they were dressed to casual, we didn't inform them with clothing, we only told them the role they would be playing. Another comment which was based around the film was that the editing could have been improved, the problem we faced with this was having to sync the music lyrics we also had to make it realistic. We were told the camera shots we used were good and mainly the one when one of the actors was walking down the stairs with this we used continuity editing to clearly show the audience what he was doing. Overall we did receive some good feedback and this can always help us if we had to do the task again. If we were given a chance to improve our work the one thing I would change would be the actors as I would tell someone whos had previous experience.  

Short Film - Facebook Famous

Editing

During this week we started editing our short films. We came across a few problems which made it harder for us to edit as we had to reshoot due to lighting. 

Pre-Production Call Sheet

Pre-Production Location release form

Pre-Production Talent release forms

Pre-Production: Risk Assesment

Pre-Production Song list final version

Pre-Production Script final version

Script Facebook famous from Maciek Gniadek

Team meeting and dicussion

During our lesson we put our work together and updated each other on what has been completed so far, we made a plan for the coming weeks on what we should do next.

Unfinished songlist

W collected more songs for our short film, we included the link to the song and what act and scene they will be used in. We also made sure we knew how many seconds of the song we were going to use.

Pre-Production Storyboard

Stroyboad from sadiyya

Pre-Production Group Work

Pre-Production storyboard - improved

Stroyboad from Maciek Gniadek

Unfinished Script

Our unfinished script
Started on the first two acts with the songs we might be using in the short film, we still need to finish the last two acts.

Act 1

Cedrick: So who shall we invite?

James: Our friends?

Cedrick: What friends?

Oliver: ‘I am so lonely, so lonely, all on my own’

Image of the Facebook page

Cedrick: Let’s invite ‘everybody’

James: Really ‘everybody’?

Altogether: And it’s done!

Act 2

*walking down the street*

Background: who let the dogs out?

Cedrick: woof

James: woof

Oliver: woof

Cedrick: But who’s going in though?

James: im not

Oliver: fuck that

All: well then theres only one way to do this

All: rock paper scissors

james: tell me why, its always me

james: so this one, might aswell take this, and this and this.

James: fuck fuck fuck fuck

James: stop being such a little bitch

James: hi (nervously) cant read my poker face

Shopkeeper: have you got id?

James: yeah here I have it (nervously)

Shopkeeper: reply

James: I got it,I got it

Oliver: yeah x3

Cedrick: how did you do it?

Pre-Production Act 2

We carried on with the storyboards and carried on trying to find songs.

Filming

These are images from where the filming took place. the party scene was set. From the first day of filming we realised the next day we had problems with the lighting so we had to reshoot. we had to leave one scene from the film this was when they go to the shot instead of including it we changed the storyboard.

Pre Production Storyboard

We drew a couple of scenes for the short film storyboard and we also found some songs that we were able to use.

Meetings

Another way we thought it would be a good idea to keep in touch outside of college was to Skype one another so we can discuss the work and the story boards with Skype we will be able to send pictures of the story boards to help us get our pre production finished.

Pitch feedback

Pitch feedback review

We presented our prezi and treatment for our short film called 'Facebook Famous' the concept of our film was understood easily by our target audience. The target audience understood that would be using song lyrics instead of speech, the target audience advised us that we should use both speech and song lyrics as it wouldn't work as well with just song lyrics. The target audience also mentioned the idea was very unique but we had to present it differently compared to our inparation videos, maybe something they could relate to or understand. Overall our target audience are interested with our short film.

Prezi and Pitch

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Our song list so far

Eminem –berzerk –“We're gonna rock this house until we knock it down
So turn the volume loud, cause it's mayhem 'til the a.m”


Katty Perry –Roar – “Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar”


Miley Cyrus – We Can’t Stop – “It’s our party we can do what we want”


LUKE BRYAN – that’s my kind of night -Yeah, that’s my kind of night!
Yeah, that’s my kind of night!


Dj Kicken – we need some alchohol


JUSTIN MOORE -Point At You “I still like to get a little crazy”



SELENA GOMEZ-SLOW DOWN “Cause I just wanna party all night in the neon lights 'til you can let me go”


Bruno Mars – Gorilla-“Ooh I got a body full of liquor with a cocaine kicker and I'm feeling like I'm thirty feet tall”



BRETT ELDREDGE-Don't Ya"-“Cause I can see you move a little closer,closerGirl I gotta get to get to know ya, know ya



BASTILLE-Pompeii-“Oh where do we begin?”


AUGUST ALSINA FEATURING TRINIDAD JAMES – I LUV THIS SH*T- Iluv it Iluv it

Treatment

Treatment

This short film is a comedy based around a trio of geeks, who come up with a plan to throw their first house party before university in an attempt to become ‘popular’. They send invites via Facebook to a couple hundred people expecting a full house. Undeterred by the fact they have never experienced any sort of party other than the ones thrown by their parents each year for their birthdays and have never spoken to the majority of the people they invited, they go forward with their master plan. The three main characters are Oliver, James and Cedrick, they are an introverted group of childhood friends who have known each other since preschool, they are well educated and their hobbies include computer coding, reading and singing. In the first act they are all shown coming up with the idea and sending the invites from Facebook. There will also be some extras used which will play non speaking roles as ‘friends’ who turn up to the party, also we will use an attractive female character and male for the ending scene. The film last for around 4-5 minutes, it will consist of 3 different acts, the first in the bedroom when they send the invites, the second when they go shopping for alcohol and the third, the ‘party’. The first act will be set in the flat that they three friends currently live in, the basic props will include things such as a computer, case of books and guitar etc. The second act will be set in the streets and a shop, this is where the characters are shown confused on what to buy for their party. The third and final act will be in the room which is used for the actual party, here all of the actors will be shown, the main cast and extras, they will be shown drinking, smoking and trying to dance/sing. Towards the end of the scene the female actor will be shown in the street and the main cast will move outside for the ending scene. This short film will be targeted towards people of a similar age, young adults, people can relate to this film through past experiences such as their first house party at college or university. The main props for the whole film will be: computers, alcohol, cigarettes, money and books.

Case studies

The right place
 

The narrative of the short film is based around a shop keeper who has OCD, because of this obsession this causes him to lose his job but then finds another job which accepts his eccentric personality. The tittle ‘Right Place’ can be in the sense that it refers to the stores items being in the right place and also the idea of him searching for his right place in society which he eventually finds in the end.

The conventions of a short film is through the way that it revolves around one main idea and one main character it continues to build up on the main characters personality. There is use of other characters but this is enforce the main character.

This film has not been produced with high budget production as aside from the ending credits which involve representation of bones. Many of the camera shots used in this film were most common camera shots used to show focus and help elaborate the idea of the shop keeper’s obsession.

The editing of the piece was cleverly constructed as the techno beat music was introduced along with the main character.

Overall the film achieves so much in a short amount of time. This film has got a humorous streak running through whilst staying sharp and entertaining.

Songs in real life

This is a YouTube video called ‘songs in real life’ it is about a young man who makes short films based on everyday life. Not like a normal short film this film contains music as well as dialogue. The main actor in the film mimics the songs so that it seems as if he is singing. The songs have been put in various areas of the short film.

This short film contains various camera shots such as close ups to show the reaction on the characters face also long shots this shows the setting of the short film and where it is filmed

The audience for this short film is mostly young adults as they would find it funny on how music has been added in to create an impact. Both males and females would be interested as they haven’t chosen a specific audience. This also can relate to the teenagers. The replacement of the songs is a great way to innovate and present the story as many songs can be put into contexts and that is what they do.

The camera shots in this short film focus on the face while they are lip singing the songs which have been synced. This makes the expressions on their face funnier and adds humour to the story line. During this short film short reverse to show the conversations going on. This gives each character a chance to be the main topic, there is also a sense of movement to the camera when medium shots are used this involves the audience as its made more exiting as the camera is moving giving it an upbeat feel.

The characters are dressed like stereotypical teenagers with their oversized backpacks. The scene of the film has been very strongly been shown to be in a college as they show the classrooms. It makes it more relatable to the target audience. Dialogue is replaced with songs (non-diegetic sound) with some of the dialogue left untouched.

Steve is the main character has main focus and gets the main attention. It gives the film more diversity in the personalities of the characters; while Steve is the main protagonist, he’s not covered that much more than other characters. This allows for the other characters to be as important as the main characters.

Plastic Bag

This is a short film based on a Plastic bag, it was released in 2009. The film is narrated throughout telling the audience the journey of the bag. The bag is travelling through different conditions such as being thrown into the bin and being transferred to different places.

The story really draws in the audience as it can relate to a person’s life, as when you’re created you have to find someone who loves you and when they have to go how a person reacts. The only difference in this film is that the bag can never die. The music fits in perfectly with the film and doesn’t distract the audience from the narration as its calm.

In this short film there is a lot of use of point of view shot. This shows the audience along with the narration what’s happening with the bag. The close up camera shots show specific items which may not have been narrated. There’s close up of different things such as wildlife and different animals. Special effects we’re not used in this short film as the director kept it as minimalistic to keep the simplicity of the film. So it can focus on the bag only. The story line was generally slow and this maybe to relate to the bag which hasn’t got anything anymore. Showing the slow paced journey.

For this film there isn’t a specific target audience but I would say the audience would be people who are mature and are able to understand the story line. From this I would take the idea of the wanderer’s journey and explain it in a much greater detail. Also the film is very basic with the music and narration but has been put together to fit in perfectly.

 

 

 

 

Ideas

Today we looked at different songs and looked for lyrics which we could use for our short film. we wrote a list of different lyrics and now the next step is to start writing script and a story board

Production Schedule

Short Film Idea

Our ides
- Geek love
- Drinking/smoking
- House party
- falls in love with a girl they don't know
- add music while they're are talking
- Little dialogue
- One line of certain songs
- Location - still thinking, needs to be in a house
- Actors - 3 geeks 1 girl and some people in the background maybe
- makeovers
- props
- starting: sending messages on facebook to a party, invites lots of people but on 2 turn up
- ending: girl walking down the street, sees her friend behind her and starts waving but not at him (song: usher omg)
- close up

Short film ideas

This lesson we had to decide what type of film we want to make and what about. We started off by sharing our ideas to one another, after this we started watching different genres of short films to help a get clear idea for the film. We then got into groups and spoke about if we had any ideas after watching the examples of short films

DSLR Camera

We first started this project with playing around with the camera and learning how to use them. To get the hang of the camera we started off with making a short film based on a secret we had to use the following camera shots; close up, short reverse shot, establishing shot also we had to experiment with the sound equipment.