1. Outline briefly how your approach to your current production differs from your experience of pre-production at AS?
Within my AS piece I understood how crucial careful planning and research is to create any successful piece of media. I had never done any aspect of media beforehand, therefore all the technology from cameras to editing software was completely new to me. I therefore knew that in order to create a mark worthy piece I would have to do a lot of research into the different technological aspects associated to creating a film, also from other coursework relate art subjects I have previously taken I understood how I would need to plan carefully all aspects of my film, from the storyboard to the script, props to characters.
I feel that for my A2 approach I have taken a similar approach in terms of ensuring that although I now have the understanding of the technology and technological terms associated to creating a film piece, it is still vital that I carefully research and plan all aspects of my short film. Due to the fact that the task for my advance production is to create a short film lasting five minutes, I felt that unlike for my AS where I predominately concentrated on researching the opening to films that were in my given genre, for my A2 although from the start of being given the task had a rough idea of the type of genre and style of film I would like to create, researched a number of different short films from a variety of genres (such as comedy and documentary) and resources (such as virgin media shorts and bbc short films) in order to gain an understanding on the typical conventions used within shorts.
Similarly to my AS piece I have spent a number of weeks thinking of a range of ideas and possibilities, and by looking at the strengths and weaknesses of each idea been able to choose one final idea that I feel I shall be able to work upon in order to create a successful short film. Although I have off course been thinking of the actual idea, and meaning behind my short film I have also taken on board the fact that within my AS piece although I had a strong concept of how the film would explore the nature v nurture debate within psychology I feel I focused to much on the concept and not enough on the exploration of shots within my opening, therefore my final piece for AS I felt that with a more variety of camera shots could of been much stronger. I have in turn for my A2 piece focused not only on the content and meaning behind my film, but also on how I can incorporate a variety of shot angles in order to make the film overall visually more interesting to the audience.
I have also ensured that this year, as I am not planning on using dialogue within my short film my storyboard is extremely detailed, this has allowed me to make sure that I have included enough within my short film to portray the meaning and grasp the audience's attention without the use of dialogue.
2. What decision have you made about the narrative structure of your short film. How had your narrative moved on since year 12?
The conventional narrative used within film is a linear narrative, that is one that portrays a beginning, middle and end. For my AS piece, I felt that I wanted to explore away from a conventional narrative, by incorporating flashbacks within my film, I feel that alongside the voiceover I was able to portray to the audience that the 'home videos' were flashback of the two adult males as children. This time however I felt that I wanted a piece that was set in the present rather than past tense. To start with I set out to create a more artistic film, that rather than following a specific narrative structure, was more a collection of images portraying a meaning, however after exploring with the camera and taking a bit of footage this half term I have decided that , my film needs more structure in order to ensure that it shall grasp the audiences attention for the whole five minutes. I therefore have decided to continue with my theme of shoes, but rather than following a number of characters focus on one protagonist character. This character also in contrast to my original idea will be fictional, the film shall follow a liner narrative to an extent, as the film portrays the character as she lives a day in strange pair of shoes that are not hers, she feels that it is the shoes that are meaning that throughout her day all good things are happening. Therefore my film shall take on the structure of a beginning where she wakes up middle her day and end. I feel that I have moved on from year 12, as I have the idea that if I took on a linear narrative than my piece would not be exciting enough, however I have learnt from my AS work that simpler is sometimes more effective and by using a more simple structure and idea I can focus on ensuring that I demonstrate technical skill and knowledge within my piece.
3. To what extent could the short film form be considered a discrete genre?
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