Requirements for a Moving Image Production

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Type of production
Type of production is what the media that you have produced is, such as; animation, television programmes, music videos, webisodes and many more. These can all be distributed in different ways such as adverts, soaps or even online. The type of media production that I have done is a 90 second short film. This is for a competition called DepicT which is online. I have distributed it online via YouTube and Facebook. DepicT challenges filmmakers on any budget from anywhere in the world to show their stuff in just a minute and a half. They receive hundreds of films every year, all competing for their great range of prizes and industry exposure. Virgin Media where doing a completion with short videos which last around two minutes, they were doing this championing the undiscovered talent that people have with the help and the association with Nikon. They had grown to become the UK's biggest short film competition, after six years and 6,059 short film entries they have now retired after being a life changer for so many.

Sources of finance
The finance here is to be able to provide funding for someone in the business or the business as a whole. As our short movie was of low budget and being in college we only had the budget of £5 which was actually from the college. For this we used it to put towards buying the props and costumes that we needed. There are many other different sources of funding that do exist for film, television and other moving image productions, such as; the cinema, Out Of Home advertising (OOH), on demand, online, streaming, on a digipack or even on blue-ray and DVD. The BBC are a good example here, the principal source of funding for them were grants that were receivable from international bilateral donors and this income made it possible for the organisation to be working on 81 different projects around the world. Some sources of finance can be short term and must be paid back within a year, however other sources of finance could then be long term and will be paid back over many years. Short term sources can be an overdraft facility and this is where a bank is able to allow a firm to take out more money than they actually have in their own bank. Another method is factoring, and this is where firms will go out to sell their invoices to a factor such as a bank, this is a quick way to gather money, rather than having to wait for 28 days. However on the other hand there is the long term sources which could come from the owner who ends out investing money in the business, loans from a bank, family or even friends. Or a lease can be taken out with monthly payments that are being made towards the rented equipment that is being used.
 This then brings us on to…


Requirements
The requirements are things that are needed to complete a task. Such as money and what it will be spent on. The things that you could spend money on for a moving image text for example; a bank loan, crowd sourcing, you could self-finance, selling the rights, winning money after entering into a competition. There are others such as asking someone else or private capital, and Megan Ellison has done this. In the last four years she has helped to produce 17 films. She does this by funding the company’s with mega amounts of money so that they are able to film and go ahead with the making of the movie. She started with a lot of money from her father, and didn’t know what to be doing with it all so she started funding for filmmakers; she has been working with many well-known casts of popular actors. Other requirements are the correct type of software that is going to be needed to get the movie put altogether. The company Apple has got new software out called Final Cut Pro X, and this lets you edit and deliver you’re work like never before. Some of the companies that have used this are DreamWorks Pictures with The Ring 2002 Gore Verbinski, The Warner Brothers with Corpse Bride 2005 Tim burton and Happy feet 2006 George Miller, 20th Century Fox with X-Men Origins Wolverine 2009 Gavin Hood, the Columbia Pictures with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 David Fincher, and many more.

Product placement is another big requirement for some companies…

For my group we had to obtain an SD card to hold all of our work on it and other equipment such as the camera itself and the tripod. We had to get three different actors (including myself), crew to hold the camera and do the filming, a little bit of make up on the actors, two different locations to film within, and the props and costumes. Without these we would have had much of a film, and all of what we needed had only come to a total cost of £4 as the equipment was lent to us as well as most of the costumes. The things that we didn’t have to worry about where the licence for music (as Connor had composed his own for the movie), accommodation (as it was only being done during our lessons at college), food (as we hadn’t taken too long to film) or transport (as it was all within walking distance to the college. We did however have to think about the distribution of the movie, which was put on YouTube and linked to a few of our Facebook pages


Time
Time in this sense was to plan, schedule or arrange when something should happen or be done. We were given a week to get all the paper work filled in and sorted, then 8 lessons to complete the filming in and then a week to complete the editing to get the finished movie. We had used all of the time that we were given so that once we had thought we had finished we would then go back over it and make sure that it was at the best it could be with nothing missing out. All the deadlines that where set where all met and met early, though us completing each task a little faster than planned.


In a big professional media industry, when deadlines are not met, things are a little more serious than the small media businesses. If deadlines are not met then they could possible postpone the movie form being made for a few days, months or even years. This will then have a knock on effect as they could then lose actors as they may get another offer for another movie in that time, the location might have changed or no longer be available. The Majestic Film the Thief and the Cobbler, 1993 Richard Williams which had taken 28 years to make, this was due to the lack of funding. The head animator Richard William started the film in 1964, really intending for it to be his masterpiece. In 1988 thanks to his work on the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1988 Robert Zemeckis, he was able to get the funding that he needed to carry on with the film, but also with the distribution from the Warner Brothers. Eventually the control of the film had been taken away from William, and released without him in 1993. 

Personnel
Personnel are the employed people within a business such as media. It’s the talent (actors) and crew (the production team) that work within the media production. The makeup for a typical team for a moving image production in a low budget short will only contain a small amount of people for the crew, which then depends on whether or not they are going to be getting paid, not very likely. There would be a low budget director, makeup and costumes, maybe to use the ones that they have at home. The actors would be close to the person who wants to make the movie, such as friends and family. Clerks, 1994 Kevin Smith have done a rather similar thing for when they had made their low budget movie.

A television programme on the other hand is different in the way that they have a much bigger budget to be spending on. Because of the higher budget that they have they will therefore have a much larger makeup for the production. It would also have a casting director who does actually play a massive part in the production as they have the responsibility of choosing the actors that are the best suited for certain roles within the film. The director plays the big part as they will have all the skills that are required such as; giving directions, recognised talent, communication and organisation skills. For the television programme there are many different people that are needed to be able to make it successful such as; the makeup artist, costume designer, director (floor, technical and assistant), the researchers, story editor, cinematographer, the writer and many more. The BBC version of Sherlock, 2010 to present Mark Gatiss has a much bigger budget and this is shown by the large amount of people that they are able to have, such as; producers, music, cinematography, film editing, casting, production design, art direction, set decoration, costume design, make-up department, production management, sound department, special effects, visual effects, stunts, camera and electrical department and many others. All of these have the minimum of at least 8 people per department and others have 30 people of even more to do different things within the one job role.


A Hollywood feature films are the full length films that are made and then produced in America, which become an item for a cinema programme. The Titanic was made in 1997; this is an American romantic disaster film, with a budget of $200 million. With all of the different directors and actors and many other people working on this, it had been nominated for fourteen academy awards. This was the first film to ever reach the billion dollar mark with $2.187 billion.


Facilities
The facilities are a place or a piece of equipment that has been provided for a particular purpose. Some of the equipment that they would need would be; Cameras, lights, sound (microphone, mixers and DAT records), and finally transport. Of course it will go on the availability of the equipment whether the person is able to have the piece of equipment or not. But not only that it will also go on the cost, the amount or equivalent paid or charged for something, they might find it more effective if they are to buy the product fully or to keep renting it out on the days that it is needed for. This cost will start from £30 a day, £54 a weekend, £134 for a weekly and anything above it for longer. 

This company here http://www.hireacamera.com/index.asp Hire a camera, was set up in 2003 because of the manager trying to hire a camera for while he was on holiday but didn’t have much success. Because of this he decided to create his own little company that does just that and helps people who are in need of a camera. They have different sizes and different types that are able to suit many different people’s needs for whatever purpose they will need them for. 

The equipment that was available to us was camera, tripods and SD cards. These were available from the audio visual room (AV) at the college and all of them are of free of charge. We were able to obtain these with showing the man in the room (Dave) our student cards, showing how we are students from the college, and then took the equipment used them for the DepicT production. They were all returned to the room in the same condition that they left in, in the same day. This is the same as the company above, however they have to mail the product out to the person who is renting the equipment.


Gathering materials
Gathering materials is when information and idea for use are all being put together in order to create a piece of work. The source of gathering the materials is from a place, person, or a thing from which something can be obtained. However the cost for gathering materials will require a payment of a specified sum amount of money. There is also the clearance side of this, and this is when the movie production and the paper work to it all has been given a green light, and tis will then enable the person to go ahead and maybe even use some copyright material, providing that it has been cleared with the owner of the piece of music.


There are many various types of materials that people need for a production other than the crew, cast and the equipment... Such as; costumes, props, a script, food, music, sound effects and many more. However, as it was said, these things cost and there and different amounts of financial considerations to consider when using certain materials. Costumes and props will cost the business, and then they still need to be able to pay good money so that they fit the person and give more details to the character that is going to be wearing them. Then all the professional media industries have to think about the type of insurance they are going to have, to all of the crew members to the cast whether they are adults or minors. The copyright to music is another big one; this is shown with the theme music from 007’s Skyfall, 2012 Sam Mendes movie with the theme tune called Skyfall by Adele. Making such a good theme tune makes the movie appeal to more than the set target audience, but also having the song stuck with in the top of the charts for a good number of weeks. As of July 2013 the movie had managed to sell over the five million copies of the DVD worldwide. The company have copyrighted the piece of music; this is then to make more money out of the single song. But not only this, but it may also be owned by the person which preformed it. Copyright is a legal right that has been created by the law of a country, which grants the creator of the original work the exclusive rights to use and distribution. However if anyone is to try and break the rules and go against this without the permission can be a criminal offence.


Contributors
The contributors are people or things that takes part (contributes) within something. There are many various people that may contribute to the production of a media text in addition to the crew. There are both people in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. For example there would be; stunt men, extras, interviewees, experts/witnesses, first aiders, script editors, accoutres and many other people. For our 90 second movie we didn’t use any of these, as we only had a really small budget and wouldn’t have been able to afford the extra costs for the other people. We had kept it simple and used friends and ourselves to use within the filming.


Doctor Who uses Stuntmen, script editors, story writers, accoutres, location providers, first aiders, film editors and many more. As Doctor Who has a bigger budget it is able to spend the money on more people that are needed to make the television show an utter success. Without the work of these people it would not have half as many viewers as what it does now.


This one is of a stuntman who parachuted into the 2012 Olympics as the queen.

This picture is of and interviewee that could be within a documentary programme or the news

This is a picture of part of a doctor who script that has to be completed before the actors start the filming. 

Locations
A location is a particular place or position that something will or has already taken place within. A recces is the paper work that any moving image production needs to have as paper work to show that they have checked out the place to see that is suits the needs that they want it to. The limitation with moving image productions will be the action of limiting, or restriction to certain areas while filming or maybe limiting the amount of time they have to be doing a certain thing. However another piece of paper work that they will have to do is the risk assessment, this is finding out that if the situation that the actors and other production crew will be in is safe or will it be involving exposure to danger.


For or 90 second movie we had limited our filming to the area either in or around college and this was because of the transportation cost that it would have coasted to get anywhere else, and we only had a budget of £5. The reason for choosing the locations that we did was because they both have easy access, it didn’t take too long to get their either of them as well. And yet it had never cost us a single penny for travel. The locations both fitted really well with how we had pictured them both on the story boards. For this we had also had to write up our own risk assessment. Some of them where things like slips, trips, falls, a messy prop room, damage to the equipment that we were using, if someone was to get lost and medical conditions that we would have to know about. All of these have all got to be taken seriously, and when the assessment paperwork had been completed I went through it with the group. Health and safety checks.


If the checks are not gone through thoroughly then there could be fatal consequences. When Michael Jackson was in the middle of filming for a Pepsi commercial in 1984 his hair had caught on fire. 

Codes of practice
The code of practice is a set of written rules which explains how people working in a particular profession should be behaving. When using certain materials in a media production there are legal considerations that might have to be looked at, this is when we are permitted to following the rules of the law. These could be something like not having the correct rights in order to be using something. Everyone’s work is copyrighted automatically, and this is only here so that it can protect your work from plagiarism form other people. It will normally last for a good few years and then it will run out, but you are then allowed to make it copyright again for another few years (until you have to do it all over again).


Most production businesses like to have clearances, this here means for someone to be able to be getting official authorization for something to proceed or take place. This is to have the permission to use the copyright work material for your own work. They also have to think about the public liability insurance with any types of slips and trips that could happen in the process of the filming. Insurance is an arrangement by which a company undertakes to provide a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage or illness, or even death in return for payment of a specified premium. However they are given a completion guarantee/ insurance for making sure that the film is completed and that they are not going to steal the money from the company/ person that have had the making of the film possible.


Copyright didn’t actually affect our DepicT production. This was because we hadn’t used any food, drink or clothing brands and the music that had been used, had been composed and made for this production by Connor (a member of our little group). It was rather successful.


An example of this is of Hans Zimmer and the music that he had made that was just for Pirates of the Caribbean 2003- 2017  Gore Verbinksi.

Regulatory bodies are the public authorities or government agencies that are responsible for authority over some areas of human activities. Such as OFCOM – The Office of Communications is a government approved regulatory and competition authority. A regulation is a rule or directive made maintained by a higher power. However the BBC – British Broadcasting Corporation is a UK based international public service broadcaster that is different from the OFCOM as the BBC is not run by the government and is internationally massive. But there is another non-governmented organisation which is the BBFC – British Board of Film Classification. This is a business that does national classification and censorship of films within the UK.

A trade union is an organised association of workers in a trade, group of traders, or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interest. They are really important as they try to give workers better pay and working conditions for whatever the job title it is. A growing number of factory workers joined these associations in their efforts to achieve better wages and working conditions.


A trade association on the other hand is an organisation founded and founded by businesses that operate in a specific industry. These are just as important as the ones above as these will play a crucial role in promoting the best practice, helping companies become more competitive and formulating effective public policy and delivering the best. They look into the public relations activities such as advertising, education, political donations lobbying and publishing.


PACT – Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television is based in the UK representing independent television, feature film, animation, new media, etc. but then there is also the BECTU – Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematography and Theatre union who are based within the UK as well. These however support the people who work with the business itself with giving them better working conditions.

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14. class work sheet

Evaluation

Evaluation

Here our group has the fully completed and finished video of our 90 second movie DepicT. L’Espirit Noir. This is then followed on by an evaluation on the camera work, the mise-en-scene, the editing and the sound.

The camera work

I think that the camera work that has been used has been used rather well. We have used a variety of different shots in our 90 second movie DepicT. They are from wide angles to close up, from medium shots to over the shoulder shots. The first scene is a close up of the detectives face (myself) that has got the effect of the blinds going over the face. This then makes the audience feel as if that she is maybe trapped in a rather dark room. I am also holding a glass of whisky which symbolises that I am a typical detective that sits in there dark office late at night drinking.  The next scene is a point of view shot that is showing all of the paper work that the detective is looking at on her desk. The then have the camera panning from one side of the room to the other as another walks into the room towards the detective. We see a medium shot of these characters exchanging a photograph. We finished this scene with a fade out over the shoulder of the detective as she turns the photograph over to find a name of a park.

The second scene starts off with the camera moving upwards showing a medium shot of the forest that things are going to start happening in. We then watch the detective walk in and look at the picture that she has to check that this is the address that is on the back. The next one shot is another medium with the detective putting the photograph back in her pocket and walking further into the forest to find a dead body. The over the shoulder shot shows how the detective had knelt down to see the victim, and the next shot then shows what she is seeing so that the audience knows what is happening. We then had the camera focus on the detective with a close up as she feels with horror (tries to), then to a medium shot as she stands up with fear of hearing a noise in the bushes and thinks the killer may still be there. In fear of seeing someone run really fast past her we then change to a hand held camera as she runs back through the forest trying to escape the killer. We then had to add another shot with a point of view shot of her head turning to check if there was still anyone there, seeing whether she was safer now. To then have a medium shot of another killer that is jumping out to axe her in the head, the close up of her face shows how the life is leaving her body and collapses on the floor. The last shot we have faded out with a medium shot of both of the killers walking deeper into the forest with just the one turning around and taking the mask off. This has then revealed that it was the very person who gave the detective the photography in the first place.

Mise-en-scene

For the movie we only had two different scenes. The first one was set up to seem like a typical detective’s office. Dark and mysterious with it being mostly empty other than the paperwork on the desk and the bottles of drink. We started with the detective thinking, being stuck on a case holding a half empty glass of whisky, to then have someone knock at the door and walk in to give a Polaroid picture to her. This was a picture of a forest with the name Meadow Park turned over on the back. We end the scene after the detective has had the time to think about whether or not to end up going there.

The second scene is all in the forest, we had carried on as if the detective perused the information that she was given, maybe it is a lead to really help with tough case. We had started the scene off with a view of the forest just before the detective walks in to check that this is the place on the back of the photograph. Then she carried on to find a dead body just lying on the floor, to then hear that the killer might just still be there, after a rustle within the trees was heard. After running away in panic she is then confronted and then killed by the very person that gave her the information that could have helped her to crack this hard case. To end this scene we had the two killers walking away from the camera further into the forest with just the one who killed the detective, to turn and look back to show the audience that it was him all along who planned to kill the detective.

Editing

Our group had started the editing a little early as we had managed to complete the filming and where rather happy with the outcome of how each shot had ended up. To start it off we put the first clip on and changed it to the length that we needed it and put on the movie noir effects. However for the rest of the beginning scene we decide that we would copy the effects to each clip once we had sorted out the timeline. After this we then got the music that Connor had composed himself and added that to the first scene to help create the typical noir detectives office. We hadn’t taken overly long to complete this so we had left plenty of time in order to finish the rest of the movie.

We then moved on to start on the second scene that was within the forest. The first to go on was the video clip to make sure that the audience knew where we were going.  We then checked that they were all in order and that we had been sticking to the timing that we set each clip to be on our story board, this was to make sure that the movie was not going to exceed the 90 seconds task that had been set.

After all of the clips had been set in place at the correct timing we then went on to making sure that every scene had the same effects that make it stand out to the movie noir that it is meant to be. The music was next to being sorted out. We had placed the second set of music that Connor had composed himself, and made sure that it was all within the time of each hit and step. This had made the movie even more of a noir. This would be because of the music, the editing to the colours in the scene and the costumes that the detective was wearing (the coat). 

Sound

All of the sound that has been used in this short movie was all composed by Connor. This saved us from having to check out many different websites for royalty free sound that we could have used. Having music composed for the movie meant that we were able to chop and change pieces to be able to fit where we wanted it to. The music adds more drama to what’s happening on the screen, well it makes my acting look seem a little better than it is. Most of the beats that you are able to hear all go with some form of action that is throughout the entire 90 second movie.  

Feedback
We had sat down as a class and watched all of the classes 90 second movies. After each one we then said some good and bad points to each one.

My life as death
The good points of this 90 second movie is that its rather funny, had good characters and the music fits really well. However the negative point about this is that the first shot is a little dark and the background noise affects the movie.

Shellshocked
The good point of this movie are that its funny, gives distinctive characters and the music they have used fits rather well with the whole movie. However the bad points are that maybe some of the voices are over acted and another is that one of the snails is out of focus.

L'Espirit Noir
Then we got to our one... The good points that where given was that the music that Connor composed himself has been made to fit the movie very well. The camera work was pretty good, the lighting was well used and some of the acting (Connor and his pose and myself when I was dying) where funny. However a bad point was that the transitions are maybe not as good as what they could have been.

Prop Horror
The good point of this movie are that the acting was pretty good, there was a good and easy understanding story line, the editing and putting it altogether was good and it does create some good tension. However the bad points are the camera work, The character walked one way then walked back. Another is maybe the scream, not too sure on that.

Sweet Dreams
The good points about this one is there is a really good story line, it is pretty creepy and has good camera angles that are capturing the characters. The negative of this one however is maybe the little too bright lighting and that it was a little hard to understand, maybe having to watch it a few times.

The  Cookie Monster
The positives about this movie is that it is funny, has a really good story, mood lighting, good camera techniques with the focus changing and also the different ways that they done the credits compared to the rest of the groups. The negative about this is the continuity error, with the full to empty cup. 

DepicT; Production Diary

This is my DepictT production diary. Here I will be keeping up to how and what I am doing within my group as I am going along. From the start to the finish.

30-09-14
Firstly we had discussed our story line in a little more detail so that we know what we want to be happening and to also be going on. We had learnt about shot types and how to put them into the story board for the lesson which has helped with starting off our project. After this we got back into our groups and made up a shot list, knowing now how we want the story to go we made up just over 21 different shot with what the camera angle was going to be, what and who is going to be in the scene and what was going to be happening. With this we were then able to start creating our story board.

01-10-14
As a class we had gone through different sheets of paper work that we would have been needed to be filled out in order to go ahead with the filming. The sheets where; an adult release form, a minor release form and A location recce form. We then got in to our groups, one person was left to carry on with the drawings on the story board and the other two went out to the locations that we were going to be using and filled in the location recce forms.

02-10-14
Today we carried on from yesterday. We have now made a checklist for our group and printed out a number of other pieces of paper work that we need, these are; 4 adult release forms, a budgeting form, a location release, a production schedule form and a risk assessment form, and had them all filled out. We had got all the people that we needed to sign to be a part of it all, to sign. We have also made our own lists of; the equipment needed, the props we need, the costumes we need to get... And the casting of how many characters we needed and who would be playing them.

03/10/14

Today again, we have kept to carrying on with what we had been doing on the previous days. We have learnt about the information that should be on the risk assessment forms and the budgeting forms, and just added to them. Now we have completed the story board and all of the other part of the paper work. The only thing left is the email that we are going to be writing up to the police next lesson. We had also gone out and taken pictures of the locations we are going to be using, and here are some of the ones that Connors has taken...

06/10/14

Today is the paper work deadline. We have finalised all of the paper work, typed out most of the hand written work and got it all in order. We have also emailed the police, informing them what we are planning to be doing.  We are all done and ready for when we start the filming. Here is the paper work that we have completed and filled in…  We have also named it L'espirit Noir

13/10/14
Finally today we got all the left over parts on to our blogs. We now have all of the information and documents on our blogs and ready to go. Today we had also started filming, which has not quiet gone to plan because of there being really heavy and bad rain. We did start to film but not as we had planned... A few changes had to be made on when the filming was taking place. we have also made Flipsnack's with the pictures of our work on http://www.flipsnack.com/

  
14/10/14
Today we have had much better weather. We had carried on with the filming and managed to complete it all. We have checked through all of the footage to see it is looking okay. And it is all better than what we had planned it to be. Now that we have finished we uploaded the work on to the computer so that we will not lose any of the work, now we are ready for editing. I feel that today has been very successful with the make-up and camera work that Poppy had done and the acting by myself, Stuart and Connor.

16/10/14
Today we started the editing. We had managed to find the effects that we wanted to make the movie in black and white, therefore making it more of a movie noir. We have, so far, managed to stick to the timings that are on the story board. This is helping us to be able to keep to the 90 seconds task. It is going slowly but we are constantly making progress.

17/10/2014
Today we are carrying on with the editing from yesterday. We have had trouble with a jump cut at the beginning of the clip, so we tried to put different transitions in so that it would cover it up but it was not working. If anything it was making it worse. So we had swapped the shot after it to be the shot before it, now it is looking good. As we are working through the clips we have found that the camera jumps a little bit. This is because of us having a slightly dodgy tripod, but we have made it fit in with the rest of the movie. We now have officially got all of the scenes in order, now we need the sound effects, the music and to change the colour of the film to make it more noir. We have also managed to keep it at 90 seconds exactly.

20/10/2014
Today we have nearly finished the entire movie. We have managed to get the rest of all of the sound that we need throughout the movie along with the music. There have been a few errors and troubles with getting the music to follow on for each other. But also for the sound effects to be able to fit perfectly within the hits of each scene. We just have a few little tweaks to do before we are complete but that will be for the next lesson.

21/10/2014
Today we have officially finished the entire movie. We have got all of the music and the sound effects that we need and we, as a group, are very happy with the outcome of what we have managed to produce. And it is now ready to be uploaded.

DepicT: Initial Planning

For this planning I had come up with a few different ideas on what the Short 90 second movie could possibly be about.

Idea 1
My first idea was if something or someone was to be taken. It would be about the mystery of being able to find it and how it had come to have been taken in the first place. I was not overly keen on this idea I did not feel that it was very exciting. Therefore I did not choose my first idea.

Idea 2
My second idea was to be able to seek revenge after someone's death, using war, fighting and angry scenes. However I had thought that maybe there would be a little too much anger in such a short amount of time.

Idea 3
My next idea was the possession of an object. Maybe seeing a death of someone and as they die they curse an object, and for the 90 seconds we would see the life of this possessed object. The way that it moves, the way that others would react around it.

Idea 4
The next one I had the idea of maybe something heart-warming. With it starting off with a random person going to the aid of a poor person and seeing how their life is being transformed.

Idea 5
Another idea is of someone getting magical powers and seeing them learn to perfect how to use them. I thought of the idea of how the objects could go flying across the room, but I was not very sure on how this was to be done

Idea 6
My last idea was to get different camera angle of a few various different amounts of people faces to a reaction of a question. I felt that maybe people faces would be very similar and thought that maybe it was not going to be one of my strongest ideas.

Then I had to choose one of these ideas to pitch to my group... I had chosen someone losing a loved one and this person being so angry that he manages to change the weather to a freak storm. This would be where he would have gain super powers. We would then see how much he is trying to bring back his loved one.

The overall group decision is that we can have a horror movie noir. We would take the black and white, the dark blind scenes over the faces, the music and put it to a murder detective short movie. We plan to have a detective, a few victims and a murderer who goes on a killing spree.

DepicT Choosing

Here I have gone onto the DepicT website and I have chosen the best three short films that I like and think stand out very well from the others.

http://www.depict.org/2014/webbed/?category_request=2014

Webbed - Nick Rowell and Gabriel Farnese

This had such a big story behind it, and somehow managed to keep it simple. It is based upon a true story which has made it even more heart-warming. It was sad how the child was maybe starting to think he did not have any super powers. No one had noticed him. Then he met a stranger who made him believe in himself again. By dropping his shopping and opening his shirt, to see superman. The music used in this short film is very simple and does not pick up speed. Although the film picks up speed the music does not, this had created a feeling that not everyone will even know what is going on, oblivious to it all. My favourite part of this is the part where the stranger has told the child to "shh", playing along keeping the identity a secret. The camera angles that were used here are used very well, from showing us the child to showing us what he sees. This can therefore make the audience feel what he is feeling.

http://www.depict.org/2013/a-thing/?category_request=2013

A Thing - Chintan Gohil

This short film had one whole process of how this guy makes "A Thing" out of a block of wood in one and a half minutes. I feel that this film is inspirational to what people are actually capable of doing once the mind has been set to it. The film had also caught my attention throughout the full duration of the timing, almost poetic. The simple way that the camera has captured him with such complicated hand work that he is putting on to the wood. It is showing how creative that you have to be to really do something as extraordinary as this. I do not have one favourite part of this short film as I love all of it, and how it slowly takes shape, therefore making the audience feel that he is able to making anything that he would like from each block of wood. The ending shows how after one has been made he gets started right away on the next one; there is no hold him back. It is a journey of something simple to something more valuable. 

http://www.depict.org/2013/cool-unicorn-bruv/?category_request=2013

Cool Unicorn Bruv - Ninian Doff

The reason for choosing this final short film is that it had captured my attention with a slightly funny story line. I believe that the actor here made it funnier than what it could have been with different people. I love the way that they act so natural, trying to convince one person that their item is better than the others. My favourite part of this short film is the part when the guy with the unicorn is walking away and the unicorn the shots a part of a rainbow out from its horn. The way that the camera angles are constantly changing helps to keep the audience engaged, it makes this appear that they are trying to give something away that maybe should not be on the streets, but then at the end we see that many people have actually already got them. They have also not used any form of music, but have used various different sound effects and dialect from the actual characters.