Your research blog is your best friend.
Use this space to inspire your creative choices.
As you learn more about your genre, conventions, and narrative structure - throw your learning here.
This will not only help you design, but will also show your refinement of ideas.
Use this space to inspire your creative choices.
As you learn more about your genre, conventions, and narrative structure - throw your learning here.
This will not only help you design, but will also show your refinement of ideas.
Exemplars:
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As we are going to have a fake punch in one of the scenes in our film, we watched a video on how to make it look realistic (without anyone getting hurt).
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Colour in Film - Studiobinder
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/how-to-use-color-in-film-50-examples-of-movie-color-palettes/ Colour theory/Psychology in Film Video Notes: 3 Factors to Colour: Hue, brightness, saturation Bright images seem lively and exciting, while darker colors make it seem more dramatic, but these rules can be broken. Monochromatic: using one base hue
Colour In Storytelling Video Notes: Colour schemes: 2 purposes - balance/discordance Throwing something in that doesn't fit the scheme creates a sense of discordance. E.g. an object with a higher saturated color will draw the audience's attention. Introducing a new color to an established scheme can communicate to the audience that the mood has been unsettled. Associative: consistent colors in a story become associated with a character or an idea. Transitional: change in an associative color can show change in a character's state of mind. |
Key inspiration: The sleeping plot (48 hour film festival winer) https://www.48hours.co.nz/screening-room/2013/wellington/the-sleeping-plot/
One key inspiration for my film is the 48 hour film festival film The sleeping plot. Within this film, it is all about this little girl who we believed wanted to buy this goose statue from Bunnings, and was doing everything in their power to get this goose. While trying to get the money, there are scenes of her talking directly to what appears to be a camera, and is filling us in with information. It feels like she is directly talking to us, and making us feel like she is taking us along on her journey to get this goose. Throughout the film, it is also revealed to us that her best friend is missing, and her friends parent are worried sick. It isn't a key piece of information as it feels like a background piece of information, but little did we know it was a very key piece. At the end of the film, after the girl has enough money to buy the goose, we see her going to buy it, but instead of grabbing the goose, she keeps walking and goes to buy a shovel. We are met with her at the end, talking directly to the camera, holding her shovel saying how happy she is, and it is then revealed to us that she wasn't in fact talking to us as an audience, she was talking to her missing friend, dead in her closet. The shovel was brought to bury her friend in the backyard and cover up the death. The on thing I really loved about this film was how our expectations were completely subverted at the end. The little piece of information about the friend being missing seemed like something that was just going on in the background, but it turned out to be the whole plot. I loved how this film messed with the mind, but was also very simple within their plot story line, but also how they turned something so simple, into something amazing and mind bending as it was. A couple things I want to bring from this short film through to mine is the direct address to the camera. I believe this was a very powerful moment in this film, and it really allowed the audience to go on this journey with the little girl. I want to bring that element over to my film to allow the audience to feel apart of the journey Luke is going on. I believe it was very impactful with the film and I want that same effect to be carried over to mine. I also want to bring the idea of subverting the audiences expectations. I do believe the big reveal at the end was very powerful to the storyline and made the audience question everything they have just watched, which is something I wish for my audience to feel. I want them to second guess everything that happened in the film and make them wonder why did they ever trust the main character. |