Plans for this week:
The plan for this week was to have have the was to definitely finalise the ideas for the short film and also to find out a bit about the genre we planned on running with. Also to work out a little about the characters who were going to be in the short film.
Achievements for the week:
By this Stage I had thought of a few ideas about the direction for the film such as doing a comedy or a Garden State kind of film. But still hadn’t decided on a final ideas. The reason this was different to the plan was because we had just been brainstorming different ideas and nothing had clicked yet. But some research was done into the short film making process. Here are some links which have been found around that.
http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/id/901
The above article has information about the different steps which are involved in creating a short film.
The script
- Crew and equipment
- Cast
- Locations
- Props and production design
- Schedule and shoot
- Post production
This site is a great resource with lots of useful information especially about creating high quality short films on a budget. It also has techniques for each section mentioned above. I also searched for other websites based around this but was not able to find many good ones at all except for the above.
I also went to the video store this week and rented out Leunig Animated which was a series of weird very short films. It was here that once again I was thinking about animation but then remembered why I decided not to do animation in the first place.
Cory and I also met up later in the week to have a meeting. We began talking about games and in this conversation and began talking about the game FEAR. Which was one of the few games that managed to freak me out. We then decided that doing a horror/suspense film would be interesting and fun to do. Coming to this we thought about locations to possibly film in the surrounding areas and came up with the walking tracks around Toowong which is in forestry. We also decided night could be a cool time to do the filming. We wanted to go with a horror movie where the evil character acts similar enemies in FEAR who suddenly appear or disappear. We thought of two characters as well a hunter and a film student.
Plans for the following week:
The plans for the following week are to research the genre in more detail as well as well as beginning some of the script.
