Reflection: Week One

This week we got the brief for our piece of coursework, to either make a Short Film or a Music Video. The class was dead set on making Short Films until Mr P. threw a spanner in the works and made us re-think our decision. Even though short films have no structure and we basically have free reign to do what we want, we know more about the conventions of a music video, and all of us have seen more music videos through the last 17/18 years of our lives. 

We watched some examples of short films on Tropfest - a competition in the US, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and Arabia, which allows film makers to produce a short film, which includes a certain term, e.g. Balloon or Change. The director can interpret this any way they like, making sure its in their short film one way or another. We have a lot more experience with music videos though, due to making the Thrift Shop remake. 

Initial Ideas:

short film: LGBT related documentary/based on real life, of a young teenager exploring their body- trans/agender/somewhere beyond the spectrum. or young teenagers exploring relationships of people of the same/different sex. potentially a day in the life of a teenager who gets bullied for who they are: not just being lgbt but other factors such as appearance/family life/mental health. i feel like these issues are rarely bought up in films, and having a storyline compressed into one can really get the audience's minds working and hopefully can ignite a change in the way people think and act towards gay people.

music video: someone/people exploring London as a city. going to all the cute bookshops and dandering the markets and buying something amazing, if the song had a wee object the video could be focused around. we have the whole city in our hands, which allows amazing places to be captured and a storyline could easily emerge from a simple idea.

hopes: to make a really good short film that could potentially be entered into a competition, but get me a good grade.

fears: that time is going to run out and my ideas may not be do-able