Don't forget to smile

evaluation questions 3 and 4

evaluation question 2

evaluation question 1

examples of editing

British short film festivals

Encounters

Company's description

Encounters Festival is the UK’s leading short film and animation festival and annual meeting place for new, emerging and established filmmakers and industry professionals. Providing a single platform for celebrating talent and innovation, Encounters Festival presents an annual International Competition, Industry Programme and an inspiring selection of screenings, events and parties during the festival week in Bristol, UK.

The festival occurs 15 - 20 September 2015

Company's description

The London Short Film Festival, now in its 12th year, has been recognized as the premiere UK showcase for cutting-edge UK independent film. For the January 2015 Festival, they are opening to international filmmakers.

Renowned for daring cross-arts programming, they have showcased the very best of the country’s raw talent for 11 years. The London Short Film Festival is a Mecca for the UK’s young creative talent and a significant date in the UK film calender.

Every year the Festival’s large and loyal audience flock to screenings and events, and this network has grown steadily over almost a decade.

Software usage: final draft Writer App

Whilst working on the film I was introduced to an App called final draft writer. This app enabled me to write scripts on my Ipad wherever I was and also meant that I could have it on both my Iphone and Ipad simultaneously. The app was easy and effective to use and gave me the ability to send the script to my actors in a PDF format.

script for "drinking scene"

Final draft for film article DFTS

article first draft

Final draft for poster

Don't Forget to Smile draft

Production Log: editing

The music for the film is finally completed and fits with the film. If the film undergoes any further editing then the song may have to alter but I believe that the main structure of the piece isn't going to alter.
My biggest concern is still the voices for the final scene of the film. The noise created in the background is an issue for me as it stands out against the rest of the film as I have correctly recorded those sections. My play was to record them speaking externally but this is proving difficult to sync.

production vlog for last shoot!

Feedback

Feedback on poster:

The poster itself received positive comments and the general consensus of the feedback was based on the written words on the document. The idea being that not only should I include more labels, featuring the production designer and also the company name, but also to use a font called Steel Tongs. This font is used at the bottom of most posters and looks professional.


Another aspect of the photo that needed tweaking was the image placement in order to ensure that a large amount of the picture is not wasted at all.

Production log: Editing and music

I am currently in the process of editing the second draft of my film, choosing to focus on the sound as a priority.

I have also been in contact with Harry St John, a music student who has offered to write up a piece of music for my film, and he has given me a timetable of when we can meet up and work on creating the music.

Whilst the second draft is still being crafted, I am constantly gaining feedback on my film which is making it easier to know what to do to the film.

Production log

The production is going well and I am constantly editing the film. At this point I am taking the nearly finished film and working from audience feedback. The general consensus is that the sound errors are ruining the film and as such I will either need to sort out these errors or remove the entire section. It I likely that I will have to remove the section as previous attempts to record their voices seporatly have proven rather unsuccessful.

second draft fo the final film

Prop list: porridge scene/Final conversation

Props and location requirements for shooting scene labeled "porridge scene"

The scene itself is simply the introduction to the smiling cast and as such I wanted to set the tone as bleak, miserable and altogether uncomfortable. In order to do this there was a colour code for costumes and a prop list the reflected the atmosphere.
Props included were:
- 4 white bowls.
- 4 non polished metal spoons (any spoon that had been aged would do as then it would add to the "dullness" of the room)
- Porridge oats (porridge is made on set as to ensure that I am not making actors eat cold porridge, although for the sake of appearance the porridge has to be un-flavored and as such the cast are not happy)

Scene requirements. The room itself was chosen due to the lack of exceedingly bright colours and the large glass windows that provided much needed natural light to a scene. along with this I ensured that the room also contained a few things for the scene to make sense.
- 1 large wooden table
- 4 wooden chairs

The scene will be re-used that same day for a second scenes shoot. The Final conversation.

For this I would simply require the same table layout (being that the scene is in the same location) and 2 glasses filled with whiskey. For both legal and logical reasons I am unable to actually give my actors Whiskey and a nice alternative came in the form of Heinz baby apple juice from lidl. The drink  itself does not taste bad and looks like the whiskey on camera.

Costumes for both scenes had to reflect earlier scenes. For the Porridge scene i need Antony to where the same clothes as the previous scene, only with a different colour top. This reflects a change in attitude from the previous scene  in which he was depressed whilst in this scene he is now on drugs.

All the cast used within the Porridge scene (Grace Hardy, Connor Evans, Antony Beachump and Annabel Perillo) are required to wear dull dark colours as to correspond to the theme of the short.

poster draft

Raw footage

Don't forget to smile 1st draft

Production Log 03/01/2015

I have been reviewing the footage taken from the Graveyard shoot and have found a few shots that work well in the development of the storyline. These include a range of crane shots with a low angle view of the actors, close ups with the use of the steady cam and finally the still establishing shots of the graveyard and the people attending the fureral.

With these shots in mind I hope to edit together the scene in a way that reflects his isolation even though he is surrounded by people.