Paddy Considine- Tyrannosaur

Tyrannosaur- Poverty porn? from rachelmullenx

Filming - Organising a flashback

During my short film, there are two parts where I flashback for my characters. I researched into how people achieve the flashback look in their films.

Most forums give you a few advice points about the flashbacks and whether or not your story or film really need it.

Both flashbacks are a critical part of my film, they reveal details about the character that they wouldn't have known.

I messed around with some of the transitions in iMovie to see which would make my film look like it's flashing back, I decided the white overlay transition would be best, to then show the flashback, I have put it in black and white which is a classic convention of a flashback scene.

Filming Day 8: Re-doing the ending.

I recently decided that I wanted to change the ending of my film so that Abigail actually dies, I went back down to the harbour to film this and used roses for Jacob to put down to show the audience that she had killed herself by jumping over the edge.

Building My Review Page

As part of the ancillary tasks, I had to create a film review for my short film. I used Adobe InDesign to construct this. Here are a few of my first drafts.

in this first take, I added the masthead and under credits, the reviews headline, numbered the pages and

 

 

 

 

Narrative Theory

The following is a theory that will be relevant to my short film. It is based on Todorov's Narrative Theory.

Short Film: Opening Font

Within the design aspect of my blog, I need to find a suitable font for the opening sequence of my film. The opening is dark clouds, therefore I am assuming I will need something which is bold.



Bebas Neue Font - Dafont

Steelfish Font - Dafont

Worthwhile Font- Dafont

Futurist Fixed Width - Dafont

 

Now that I have my top four fonts, I will apply these to the opening scene and record which one I like the best.