Research on short film festivals!

Research on shot film festivals!

Who makes short films?
-People who are starting off in the film industry

-Students for school projects

Why are short films made?

-To pursue a message to the audience

-For comedy and entertainment reasons

-Experience- you might want to experiment with pulling a team together to make a story on film.

-A show reel- if you want to be pursuing a career in film making and want to demonstrate your skills, producing a short film will be a good stepping stone.

 How is it funded?

-Funding sources:

-UK FILM COUNCIL/ BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE

-SHORT FILM FILIMING GUIDE

-NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SCREEN AGENCIES

-LOCAL COUNCILS – local councils will often pull money towards a short filmmaking initiative, especially if it deals with social exclusion or aids the local community in some way.

CHARITIES- a number of charities fund short films as some organisations are interested in funding films that are linked to the topic/goal of the film.

PRODUCTION SCHEMES AND COMPETITONS- There are various schemes produced by broadcasters and other organisations that produce a series of shorts such as the BBC NEW MUSIC SHORTS, and CHANNEL 4/ UK FILM COUNCIL CINEMA EXTREME SCHEMES.

How can short films be distributed?

-Short films can be distributed online such as Youtube as if films reach there, then it will soon spread like wildfire reaching many views from the audience.

-Social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook will gain recognition of the film by releasing and spreading the word of the film and by directing the link to social networking sites will automatically gain lots of views as so much people use social networking sites.

-The internet also allows a range of views and opinions on the feedback of the film.

-The Tv- If your short film is of high quality, a television channel may screen it, especially if it fits into a slot with other short films.

- The cinema- One of the hardest place to get a short film screened, but cinemas also run short film festivals.

-Festivals- A great opportunity to get your film on the big screen, watched by an audience of industry people and by filmmaking peers. 

Audience Survey On Horror Movies!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5P5N6Z9

Observing audience for conventions of Horror whilst watching “Insidious”.- Individual research.

Convention that made the audience scared.	Why?
Spirit in a haunted house lurking around.	This made the audience scared as they was viewing the film in their own house so it made the film even scarier as the thought if a spirit in your house is scary
An ill little boy falls down ladder and ends up in a coma.	This is a scary situation as ill people in a coma feels dangerous and shows that they are not living in the real world.
Loud banging noises are heard from the little boy’s room.	Loud noises instantly make the audience aware and alert.
Monstrous, red-faced figure.	This is a scary convention as scary faces and surreal monsters popping out give the audience fright.
Communicating with demons.	This was a scary convention as doing voodoo and communicating with devils is very scary.
Quiet whispering from spirit.	Gives the audience a bad fighting mood as quiet whispers indicate danger.
Set in the evening.	This gives a spooky mood.

The Possession- Horror Genre

What happens in the Pre production, Production and Post production stage

Research-what happens in each stage of the production process

Pre-production

Production

Post production

Pre production stage-This is the planning stage where the preparation of making the film starts and the cast and actors are hired to play specific roles. In this stage the script is written and ideas for the film are created. During pre-production, the script is broken down into individual scenes storyboards so everything is planned out in every detail. The locations, props, cast members; costumes, special effects and visual effects are identified. At some point in pre-production there will be a read-through of the script which is usually attended by all cast members with speaking parts, the director, all heads of departments, financiers, producers, and publicists.They prepare a Treatment, a 25-to-30-page description of the story, its mood, and characters. This usually has little dialogue and stage director, but often contains drawings that help visualize key points. Another way is to produce a scriptwriter once a synopsis is produced. The different roles in the pre production stage are the storyboard artist, Director,Assistant director, Unit production manager, location manager, production designer, costume director, casting director, art director, director of photography, director of autobiography, production sound mixture and more.

The production stage- the actual filming/ shooting for the film stats and in this stage more crew is recruited such as directors, photographers, sound editors and more. A typical day of the production stage begins when the crew arrives for the shooting of the set and actors have their own separate time to come and act.  Also in this stage, the actors are costumed into their outfits, makeup and lighting is set up. The assistant director calls "picture is up!" to inform everyone that a take is about to be recorded, and then "quiet, everyone!" Once everyone is ready to shoot, the AD calls "roll sound" (if the take involves sound), and the production sound mixture will start their equipment, record a verbal slate of the take's information, and announce "sound speed", or just "speed" when they are ready. The AD follows with "roll camera", answered by "speed!" by the camera operator once the camera is recording. The clapper, who is already in front of the camera with the clapperboard, calls "marker!" and slaps it shut. If the take involves extras or background action, the AD will cue them ("action background!"), and last is the director, telling the actors "action!". The AD may echo "action" louder on large sets.

Post production stage- here is the editing stage of the film where the film is assembled by the film editor. Moreover, the dialogue is edited as well as the soundtrack and songs are recorded and special effects, sound effects and any finishing touches are applied such as any computer-graphic visual effects are digitally added. The final part is when the sound elements are mixed into "stems", which are then married to picture, and the film is fully completed ("locked").

• Video the picture of a television programme using an edit decision list
• Writing, (re-recording), and editing the soundtrack.
• Adding visual special effects - mainly  (CGI) and digital copy from which release prints will be made (although this may be made obsolete by digital-cinema technologies).
• Sound design , Sound effects, ADR. and Music, culminating in a process known as sound re-recording or mixing with professional audio equipment.
• Transfer of Color motion picture to video or DPX  with a telegenic and color grading (correction) in a color suite 

Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-production  

CONVENTIONS OF DRAMA AND ACTION

Brief secondary research on short films!

A Short film is described as being brief that lasts around 5-4o minutes long that has a beginning, middle and end and has a main theme such as drama, horror or romance. In Britain channel 4 has been very common for producing great short features of film.

Source- The complete A-Z media communication smart price. 

In the past short films was seen as very common specially in the genre of comedy which was made for comedy laughter reasons or many short films was produced in order to convey and portray a particular message across the audience. Charlie Chaplin was the first producer of comedy short films who started making silent comedy films which included over the top facial expression and body language. Since that time, short comedy films became very popular and well known.

Source-  AS A Level film studios-  Tanya Jones