Student Short Films

To give me an idea whether i wanted to do a short film or a music video I researched them to find out more about what each one entailed. I firstly looked at a few student short films to see what was possible with a very small budget. This would help me get an idea of what i would have to do and whether or not that was what i wanted to do.

I firstly looked at Hunter which was an award winning short film. The storyline behind it was that i boy went out shooting and shot a person instead of dear. He was followed by the ghost of the man, the main protagonist hid the body in his garden shed. One day he decided that he needed to get rid of the evidence so he took the body to a cliff and threw it over the edge. It was all too much for the boy the idea of him having blood on his hands and he too threw himself off of the cliff. I think that the way that they had filmed it was amazing the different shots of him walking showing a guy watching over him and following him. I really liked the editing especially near the end when the man is watching him throw the dead body over the cliff. They have used a glitch effect to show that the man was following him then once the body had been thrown he glitched and was no longer in the shot. I thought that the idea of the short film was really clear you could clearly see a beginning middle and end. I thought that the use of changing colour was good in terms of showing the present and the flash backs.

I then went on to looking at Chase which was another student short film. The storyline for this short film was about a lady that had possibly finished work and was making her way to her car, another character was following her very suspiciously. Then there is an over head shot of the lady followings phone saying target. From this shot it looks like the lady in black is after the main protagonist. But then in the end the women in black was trying to get rid of a bomb that was attached to this lady. Again this short film had a very clear beginning middle and end. I really liked the twist that they had added to the film because at the beginning you thing that the lady in black is after the other women, but then in the end she was just trying to help her and stop her from blowing herself up. They used very high suspense music to build tension as well as some quicker editing to help to build it up. I think that the camera angles they used were really good and helped to explain the video more, i really liked the pan shots that they had created to show movement and the surroundings. 

From doing this exercise I can now see what i have to do to create a short film. I will now go on and have a look at some student music videos to see which one I would prefer to do.