Evaluation
In this evaluation I will be discussing my short film project and what we had to do, Firstly we was asked to make a short film based on 'secrets' the film is not to have a dialogue and no more than 3 actors. Our main task was to make our film have a hidden secret inside it. The film could be any genre we wanted it to be .
My primary research was that I firstly researched other famous/well-known people who have 'secrets' and hidden messages in their art/film/ the artist that inspired me most and I researched was Bansky.
What I learned from Banksy is that in all of his artwork he has messages such as this one. In this picture it shows that our society is trapped in their own 'online world'. This helped me with my work because it gave me ideas on what my hidden message could be, or what it could include, Secondary research was Other artists and directors we researched was Domenico Ghilardio who was a fifteenth century artist and John Lasseter. who was the director of Toy Story.
After my research task I had to start to plan and do my pre-production and for this I looked at
audience profiling this is where we learned about a persons demographic profile which includes Basic information about the person like what age the person is, name, religion,sexuality and gender.
Secondly on audience profiling was the socio-economical status which we learned about and this is the social status of the person for example IE, working class, middle-class , upper-class This information was useful for when I made my questionnaire online which was the next task.I made a questionnaire on surveymonkey.com this is to find basic information from people for example their age, genre of film they like or if they like my film idea information like this helped me produce my film because I based it on what the audience preferred.
For my production I had to think of Ideas for my short film the first idea I had was based on a werewolf who was secretly a werewolf and one night with his/her friends they turn into one and kill their friends but my Idea changed because we wasn't aloud violence, My second Idea was a vampire bu that I couldn't improve that idea. My final Idea that I came up with and that I used was a person/male actor who is alone in a dark room on their laptop doing work and suddenly an unknown caller rings them and when the actor answer he hears supernatural noises on the phone then they hang up. So he carries on sitting down on his laptop and an unknown caller rings him again but he doesn't pickup so he looks over to his computer and it says ''Pick up the phone'' so they ring again and he finally picks up but no one speaks on the other line. so the actor shouts saying '' who are you speak to me?'' but still no answer.When he looks back over to his laptop it says ''I know who you are'' so the actor gets scared and tries to escape but when he opens the door he sees the unknown caller staring back at him.
After recording my idea I started to edit the short film on Adobe Premier I first uploaded all the scenes and then put them in order together, after that I cropped parts of the clips to make them shorter and not drag on. after this I continued to edit it and added SFX such as scary music and supernatural sounds, furthermore I added ringtone effects and typing sounds to fit each of the scenes.
What I would do differently is make the actor speak clearer and louder because on one scene you cant hear what he says when he is speaking to him self. Overall after all production and editing I think that my short film was fairly successful and I can not think of any other way I can improve.
