Watching Short Films, 3/11/15

We started by Marissa telling us about what our advert will need to require in a brainstorm on paper and discussed basic things we need to involve in our groups short films when we come to recording and planning.
We discussed that our clips should be no longer than 2 minutes long and at least 1 minute long. We discussed that only 1-2 actors should be involved. That there shouldn't be any conversations going off between actors but we are aloud to include a monologue or a voice over. There is not to be any guns, knifes, drugs or swearing involved.


We then discussed what a hybrid genre was which is where it can be multiple of genres instead of just one. We discussed what a linear and non linear short films are which is how a story is being told. For example a linear short film would be a where the film starts from the beginning and goes to the middle and then ends and non linear meaning there is no order within the film. We discussed what realist meant which is straight forward meaning if what we saw in the footage was realistic and could happen in a real life situation and anti realistic meaning that its not ever going to happen in reality. We then looked into what single stand and multi - strand meant which is from the actors point of view. If it is single strand its from one persons point of view and multi meaning from several actors point of views.
We then looked at a few short films independently on the BBC network website and just to find inspiration from the films and get an insight of how a short film will look and we will need to get the idea of what style we will be needing to film. I watched Albert's speech and domestics which were two very different short films. Alberts speech was more of a comedy put into a single strand narrative structure  and domestics was more of a multi strand and no where near a comedy genre. They both shared the fact they was realist and both could happen in reality. One of them ended with an open ending and the other was a closed ending.

We then watched several different short films with the class and discussed as a group what narrative structures, technical elements and what genre they were. We did this for a few clips. We watched some clips of cinema 16. We watched sign's and joyride that I remember. We then went away for 20 minutes independently and watched another short film and filled in a sheet about what we thought the narrative structures where like. I watched Amelia and Micheal which was about a married couple that were both secretly cheating on each other in the relationship. It was a multi-strand short film as it shows us what happen's to them individually. Im not quite sure on the genre of the short film. It was most defiantly a realist film as it could happen in reality.
I have overall learnt the different types of narrative structures and can confidently say what they mean and can say what types of narrative structures I can see from watching a short film,
To improve next time maybe I could watch some more short films and list the narrative structures just to be even more certain I know what they are and mean.