2012 Post 11: Script Influences

From the short films that we have watched they have influenced me towards making a film that doesn't necceasarily end happily as I believe this will have more of an impact on the audience. Short films such as 'Tender' where the boy goes and meets a girl, but in his hand is the weapon his mum's boyfriend just beat her up with, he is walking towards the girl and the film ends we don't know if he'll follow in his mums boyfriends footsteps or if he hasn't been influenced. I like this style of ending as it allows the audience to reflect on the film and how they considered the events and what has happended. There is a preferred reading but whether they read it isnt important its the impact the film has on their emotions and whether it makes them think about themself and their life.


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From the short films we have watched the lighting looks very dim and gloomy like the picture above which is a British Short Film. This gave a good effect as it made the tone of the film seem sad and dramatic and all the short films we have watched were hard hitting and dramatic. In the film I am making we want to tone down the colours to give it a grey, dark, depressing effect to make the audience feel more empathy towards our main character and would preferably film on a cloudy dark day to go with the mode of the film. We also have found from watching short films that they appear to use natural lighting, a lot of filming is also outside so it makes it look natural and the artificial bright lighting will not work with the mood of our film.


Here is natural lighting it has much better effect  as the lightening effects the mood of the film

  The above two pictures are pictures of films that we watched that are short films made by British Directors. These have influced my decisions to be creative with the sound in my film, this is due to both these films dropping the sound or having an atmosphere style of noise. Espically in the first picture which is the film 'Tender' by Deborah Haywood, I really liked the use of atmosphere noise as it allowed you to space out from the events of the film and consider the character as their is no noise distractions for instance it makes you think about whether that is what the character is hearing inside their head. I would like to include this into my short film as the affect it had on me and my peers as an audience was what I want my audience to experience.

This clip is from a short film and they've used natural lighting outside



 

Here is a clip of artificial lighting which is very bright

The picture above is from a tv drama but as a comparison to colour this tv drama does have sad moments in the programme for instance in this picture she has found out some bad news, due to the lightening being so light and artifical I believe this would have the same effect on the audience.

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This is an image from Notting Hill which is a British film this is an example of a film, my point is that all short films dont have the lightening that British films and television dramas do. I believe this is because many short films have a genre of social realist and the natural and grainy lighting compliments the tone social realist genres need.

The 400 Blow 1959 film by Francois Truffaut is a black and white French film, as a group we liked the style of this film and it was also about a young boy in a institution that isn't coping well. We liked the idea that the boy is running away and he finally reaches the sea but he's reached the limit there's nowhere else to run.

I particularly liked the end of this film as I felt it was very effective, we want a connection between Billy our main character and the audience. 400 Blows ends with a freeze frame where the boy stares at the audience, this will give our film the lasting bit of connection that is needed as it will make the audience feel like they have an relationship and connection with the main character. Because this is a section of a film we have to adapt our ideas to work with the short film. Due to the running scene being as long as our short film limit we will have plan our running scene to be as effective within a shorter time frame.