Pre Production essay

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Pre-production paper work

Pimp my Box - Depict

Evaluation:

        The purpose of this film was to create a 90 second short film for depict. we decided on a racing comedy film in which the racers would be racing in boxes instead of cars in a head to head.
         My roll in the films production was working on the pre-production paper work and acting in certain parts of the film. I believe my part within in the project was well done and even though in some parts my acting affected the shot it only added to the comedy aspect of the film. 

        I believe that the process of making our depict short film went well, because we followed a well thought out pre-production plan; some parts however did not go as well as planed.
The reason some parts did not go as well is because we had too many shots planed but not enough time in our film as some parts where longer than expected. Another reason why it did not go as planned is because we only took certain shots from one angle, which made the racing scenes seem too static so we had to over edit parts which made the overall product not as good as it could of been.         Although some parts where not as planned, the entire project went well as the video got the idea across and followed the genre.                                                                                                                                                                                                    

I like this Short film as it has a lot of humor to it by comparing the man to a horse and having him act like a horse would in a typical movie centering around horses. The use of slow panning shots give the film a calm feel as well as the choice of classical music. The film also compares the man to a cow which is seen as trapped, this could be a link to him being stuck in a boring job in an office (because of the suit) when he wants to have a more adventurous life.


 I enjoy this short film because the acting is good making the film more immersive and funny. The film uses various types of shot to show the emotions of the different characters, for example a POV shot is used with two of the characters on the ground looking up at the unicorn making it seem more powerful, the film also uses a close up on one of characters faces when he is jealous of the unicorn. There are also quite a few establishing shots at the start of the film which makes the deal look more shady.

Will you remember?   by Mimi van Rinsum   

http://www.depict.org/2016/will-you-remember/?category_request=2016

I like this film as it uses jittery stop frame animation making the memory's seem like some of it is missing, which is the purpose of this short film. They have a good use of editing the audio making it seem like the couples are speaking to a interviewer separately from their partner.  

Low budget film making:

'The Blair witch project' was a low budget film made in 1999 which only had a budget of $60,000 this can be seen by the lack of CGI in post production and cast, also the cast was not made up of well known actors, but what makes the film so effective is the use of a video camera maned by an actor giving it a documentary feel which makes the film more scary. nearer the end of the film both actors who have video cameras are made out to have been attacked by "the Blair witch" and the camera cuts out as it hits the ground so they don't need to use an extra actor or CGI for the "Blair witch" to save on budget.

Change of hands

The purpose of this short film project was to create a short film which had a change of hands. I believe that me and my crew did a good job on this project as we included most of the required shots and the acting was decent too, but there where parts in the film in which I am not happy with as some of the scenes needed editing in post production and the some scenes did not follow the mise-en-scene as our location was limited as we had limited time.