One Two Many - Filming.

For the shoot, I travelled to Brighton, which was where we had planned to produce 'One Two Many', I met up with Jordan and the actors in My Hotel, and held the mic for sound which Jordon did the filming. The length of the shoot was not long mainly bwcause we had good actors which had managed to look over the script and be prepard for the day ahead.

Wearing The Collar.

wearing the collar

I live with a lady and four cats
and some days we all get
along.

some days I have trouble with
one of the
cats.

other days I have trouble with
two of the
cats.

other days,
three.

some days I have trouble with
all four of the
cats

and the
lady:

ten eyes looking at me
as if I was a dog.

Above is a poem, which Alex and I decided to use as a inspiration for our short film, it would be a visual interpretation of the poem, and it would start with a ECU shot on the man telling the story, it then pans round to see the cats one by one, and at the end, it pans back round to see him as a dog.

Tambourine Man

Using a lyric from a song created by Bob Dylan, The Tambourine Man is a story which begins with someone crushing a tambourine, while shouting at his wife to clean up the house and be more productive. The tambourine is a symbol of sounds which are not there, because a tambourine is an instrument which creates a lot of noise and by breaking the tambourine at the start, the protagonist has transferred the noise which the tambourine would make, into his house.

Short Film Inspirations Session.

Throughout the past week we have been using specific stimuli to help provoke ideas to create story lines for short films. Using Art, News articles, Poetry and Images, we were asked to move from table to table and create a number of different story lines.

Prada & Prejudice

Prada & Prejudice is a short film by Tom Edmunds, the title is a play on words, from the novel by Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice. It is 6 minutes long and to an extent it is interesting because of the acting. It presents the idea of being prejudice towards someone or type of people one first meeting, and for the lady in this film, it goes against her.

To view Prada & Prejudice click here.

BBC Film Network

The BBC Film Network, is a new and exciting innovative platform which has a number of achieve simply dedicated to showcasing different type of film, feature length and short film. It gives information on film networks and festivals, it also has partner sites which are updated regularly with new and exciting short films. To view site, click here.

Distribution

The distribution of Short Films are extremely limited, this is because, while fighting alongside mainstream cinema for audiences attention, the funds and expenses are very low, so to waste money on distributing films to an audience which do not appreciate them is pointless. This is why there are festivals and video portals which present many different short films at the viewer discretion. Due to not having such a wide audience, the need for synergy within short films exhibition is also extremely pointless, which is another reason as to why there is not a lot of money or profit to be made in the distribution of short film.

Some short films are placed on to compilation dvds which have a number of different short films and sold in stores, however to find an individual short film sold on its own is very unlucky, this is because of the need to distribute short films is low. Rubber Johnny, is currently on sale, on its own, this is because it is a music video for a band name Aphex Twin, this group have a following which would obviously want this on dvd. Therefore being a need for distribution of this one film, so it is being sold.