Monday- 4th February
Today we were given the task to create another 3-minute short film. All the audio/ Foley has to be recorded ourselves and the whole story line had to be created with just our own ideas, we were not given one to follow like we did in our previous project.
We struggled initially to come up with an idea for this short film as we were struggling with factors such as what genre we should go through with. Therefore, to help us come up with an idea, we created a mind map of what we did and didn’t want in this short film.
After an hour or so of trying to decide where wanted our story line to go, we finally came up with one and created a basic timeline for it in order to help us know the order in which the scenes were going to go in and where they would take place.
After coming up with the story line, we completed some more pre-production such as an equipment list, sound list, location reconnaissance, storyboard, risk assessment and a script. We gave each member of the group a certain piece of pre-production to do, so that we could get it done quicker in order for us to start filming as soon as we could.
Our short film takes place in college and follows the story of a student who is consumed by reading different conspiracy theories during a library study session. While reading many theories such as living in a simulation or mobile phones listening to their users, she almost starts to believe this. This begins to scare the student and she proceeds to leave the library and after she leaves, strange things begin to happen around her, which makes her being to question reality.
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