Narratives: Short Film 002

So, today we presented our short film idea to propestive 'clients' [aka Deborah Tuck, Andy Love and Narrative Groups 10, 11 & 12] .

Let's back track for a second......

Since our first meeting a few weeks ago, we've stabilised our idea, come up with a plot and style for our film, oh, and found our 5th and final member, Emily. All in a days work etc. After much debating within the group we came up with the following idea.

The Plot [Take II]

For our 2 minute short film we have decided to depict the life, or moreso, the day of a man [played by Ben] with a problem. We will be using flashbacks, to portray 'happier' times, and there will be a dark style to give the feeling of sadness/depression.

Our main aim within the film is to mislead the audience, by telling the story of how and why he is depressed but the story can be 'read' in more than one way. The final scene will show the audience what is really was bothering the man. The flashbacks will show him being happy with his girlfriend and will be edited to be very colourful unlike the main scenes, to emphasise happier times to when his life wasn't so grim. We will be using some stills within the film to gain the effect that we would like.

We have also chosen to have no dialogue in this film, we will be using original music which will be produced by Owais specailly for the film and sound effects for the flashbacks.


Back to today, after we presented our idea to the clients we were given both positive and negative feedback on both our idea and our presentation/presenting skills, which was duely noted.

Our next task as a group is to meet up and write the script and storyboard. Till Then.