been working hard

the editing process is nearing completion and unfortunately i have somewhat neglected the blog. i am going to now catch up you readers on some of the things that have been keeping me busy in the editing studio. i have had to work the sound hard. unfortunately due to some strange circumstance the sound on the clips and the footage did not sync up properly, meaning that i have had to manually link the sound and the picture with regular skips and bleeps in them. luckily this has not generally effected most of the better takes but it has been very time consuming and added much stress to the process. furthermore the animation of putting in thought bubbles (the process of which i shall add in a later post) has taken some time and figuring out that has been consuming my free time.

a search

now that the editing process is almost complete i am looking for the final piece to this intricacy which is my film. ok that may have been a tad arrogant but in all seriousness i'm searching for thought bubbles on the internet. i have found many good pictures using simple search engines like google images and have even created my own using photoshop. below are several bubbles i have found

poster

i have finally finished the poster for my short film. designing this was challenging for a few reasons. firstly it was difficult to find short film posters, though i did manage to find a couple. the first one i found leant to me the idea that since short films often attempt to portray a level if postmodernism as is not often scene in mainstream cinemas i would design a postmodern poster for my film. the characters on the poster were made as stick figures with exaggerated aspects to them. for instance the villain has the gloves that they wear in the film, the protagonist has his green clothes and the mother has the bread knife. all chosen because of the main characters mind. he is portrayed as being "not all there" as portrayed by his absurdist flashbacks. its meant to be an insight into the character and his perception of those around him.

final product

it was no small task but the magazine article is finally finished. after reading through magazines like EMPIRE and FILM i designed a template for what the article should looks like and what should be covered in the writing itself. i believe i have more than aptly portrayed what a film article looks like.

grid plans

in preperation for my final products i have created multiple grid plans (two of which are featured here). i studied the layout of a film review by reading the film magazines Film and Empire. i also looked at the layout for non film reviews in magazines i normally read.

inspiration

i have used the film Thank you for smoking as the bases of my work. the camera usually cuts to a medium shot with the character in question dead centre of the screen. the colours in the film are mostly browns and greys and overall is quite bland. this if anything adds to the films sense of realism from which it derives its comedy.

scripting

i believe firmly in critical analysis of my own work however seeing as few look at their own products impartially i will often ask others to look at it critically. here is a page from my old film which i have drafted and improved upon later