Discontinuity
Storytelling/Narrative/Shots/Lighting
Preproduction
Postproduction
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Research on Grieving
What Grief is?
Grief is a reaction to a major loss. The emotions are usually unhappy and painful. Most people grieve when they have lost a loved on or someone close to them. People can experience grief in different ways. People’s response to grief will be different, depending on the circumstances of the death. The period time of grieving will vary on the persons strength to the situation. Grief will subside over time. However, the grieving process takes time and will have to identify, accept and express your feelings to overcome it.
Someone who has died from a chronic illness would be an expected death that family and friends would have prepared for and although they would still grieve the death might been seen as a relief for the person who was suffering. If a death was accidental or violent, it may take someone longer to except it.
Feelings and Emotions
Everyone will experience grief in their life and each person handles emotions and feelings differently:
Denial, disbelief, numbness
Anger
Blaming others
Depressed mood, sadness and crying
Acceptance, coming to terms
Someone who is grieving will need support from their close family and friends during the grieving process. Participating in activities like running to free your mind, or exercises to help you express your feelings, such as writing letters or keeping a journal.
Managing grief
Simulate thinking and analyze thoughts
Deepen the understanding of the situation to help you get in touch with feelings that haven’t been recognized before.
Reflect on what is happening so that things can be put into perspective and come to an understanding of the changes affect life.
Good way of dealing with grief:
Express your emotions
Talk with other people about how you feel
Be patient and kind to yourself
Grief is a reaction to a major loss. The emotions are usually unhappy and painful. Most people grieve when they have lost a loved on or someone close to them. People can experience grief in different ways. People’s response to grief will be different, depending on the circumstances of the death. The period time of grieving will vary on the persons strength to the situation. Grief will subside over time. However, the grieving process takes time and will have to identify, accept and express your feelings to overcome it.
Someone who has died from a chronic illness would be an expected death that family and friends would have prepared for and although they would still grieve the death might been seen as a relief for the person who was suffering. If a death was accidental or violent, it may take someone longer to except it.
Feelings and Emotions
Everyone will experience grief in their life and each person handles emotions and feelings differently:
Denial, disbelief, numbness
Anger
Blaming others
Depressed mood, sadness and crying
Acceptance, coming to terms
Someone who is grieving will need support from their close family and friends during the grieving process. Participating in activities like running to free your mind, or exercises to help you express your feelings, such as writing letters or keeping a journal.
Managing grief
Simulate thinking and analyze thoughts
Deepen the understanding of the situation to help you get in touch with feelings that haven’t been recognized before.
Reflect on what is happening so that things can be put into perspective and come to an understanding of the changes affect life.
Good way of dealing with grief:
Express your emotions
Talk with other people about how you feel
Be patient and kind to yourself
Continuty Editing
I will use these methods where relevant in my film:
Master Shot : This shot is usually used when there is a change of location so that the audience or viewer is aware where it is taking place, and what the surroundings are like out of the shot.
180 degree rule : This is usually when two people are being filmed and the filmer makes out in their mind that there is an imaginary line between the two people. The camera cannot cross that line unless panning, as if so it would become a reverse angle.
Shot reverse shot : This shot is usually used when two or more people are having a conversation. The shot focuses from behind one persons shoulder to the other face, and swaps to other side when the other person begins to talk.
Match on action : Is where you film shots to make sense for example if you, in one shot was holding a glass of water being half full, your next shot must have the same amount of water in the glass to look continual. It must look the same as it was in your last shot otherwise the filming wouldn't look realistic and would be very jumpy.
I looked at a two video that showed how to edit correctly using Continuity Editing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G04_79CJqv4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoaw7iTPlZc
Continuity editing will it is a editing technique to compress time. From looking at these two videos that use the technique Continuity, it is clear to see that this approach will make the narrative follow smoother and most importantly see the shots that are important to tell the narrative. I can see from both videos that you don't need to show every step of the story taking place, only what is relevant to see. This means that the viewer won't lose interest so that the story can keep following. I will use this method when I edit my footage for my film.
Reference: http://emma-martin-12dms.blogspot.com/2009/10/continuity-editing-definition.html
I looked at a two video that showed how to edit correctly using Continuity Editing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G04_79CJqv4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoaw7iTPlZc
Continuity editing will it is a editing technique to compress time. From looking at these two videos that use the technique Continuity, it is clear to see that this approach will make the narrative follow smoother and most importantly see the shots that are important to tell the narrative. I can see from both videos that you don't need to show every step of the story taking place, only what is relevant to see. This means that the viewer won't lose interest so that the story can keep following. I will use this method when I edit my footage for my film.
Reference: http://emma-martin-12dms.blogspot.com/2009/10/continuity-editing-definition.html
Monday 27 February 2012
My Project Proposal
Objective
The object of the project is to create a short film based on contemporary culture.The short film will have a structured story narrative with the use of visual and audio elements. The story behind it is my personal experience of losing someone that I knew.
The Idea
The narrative of the film will be about a young girl who loses her boyfriend in a car accident. The film will follow how the girl grieves from a tragic lose of someone she loved in her life. The story will start of happily with the intention that no bad event will happen to two people who are in love. We will see fun, happy social events that the couple enjoy together in their everyday lives. The lead up to the turning point in which the accident happens will be when the boyfriend drops the girl off at her house and he drives away to go home. On his way he crashes (We won't see this, a audio sound of a car crashing will indicate this). The girl gets a phone call that indicates the bad accident that her boyfriend was in and that he hadn't survived. We then see the grieving process that girl takes emotionally shocked by trying to come to turns with what has happened. The girl cannot except reality that her boyfriend wont be coming back, and would do anything to see him again. The girl expresses her feelings through writing a song about her emotions. This is how the girl overcomes and excepts in time what has happened. The girl uses music to write down/sing how she feels because she feels alone and that know understands how she is hurting. The ending to the film will be a new beginning for the girl to start a new life but holding onto her memories.
The Aim
The aim of the film is for the viewers to understand the feelings and emotions that people go through when grieving and how it affects their lives in the the beginning, but then they get stronger and learn to live with it. The film will be my interpretation of how I would feel and how I would react to a tragic event of losing a loved one. Everyone has a different approach to situations. So the film narrative is important for the viewers to get, but the outcome of how they would feel and react if it happened to them is the message that I want my viewers to think about after watching it.
Problems that may arise
The project will deliver the outcome if everything goes to plan, but it realise on commitment from people. At least another three people will be need to help in the production stage, either filming or acting. Problems like, commitment, colds, flu's may arise, that will affect the timing on reaching the end deadline.
Another problem could be the weather when we are filming outside. Wet weather may ruin expensive equipment and also affect filming. This will also affect the meeting of the project deadline.
Having consent to use the locations to film may not be allowed and looking for new locations could affect the performance and storyline of the film. This will mean we would have to draw new storyboards for that in particular scene.
Overcome the problems
Duration time of project
Start: 21 February 2012
End: 15 May 2012
Planning and Research
Storyboards
Project Plan
Blog/Diary
Books, Internet and Films/DVDs
Requirements
Locations
Actors
Extra hands for recording the footage
Technical Equipment
Stills Camera(E100)
Tripod
Grey Card
Two HD Cameras
Radio Mic
Software
Adobe Premiere
Adobe AfterAffects
Adobe Photoshop
Roles
Director
Planning and organisation
Research manager
Production/editors team
The object of the project is to create a short film based on contemporary culture.The short film will have a structured story narrative with the use of visual and audio elements. The story behind it is my personal experience of losing someone that I knew.
The Idea
The narrative of the film will be about a young girl who loses her boyfriend in a car accident. The film will follow how the girl grieves from a tragic lose of someone she loved in her life. The story will start of happily with the intention that no bad event will happen to two people who are in love. We will see fun, happy social events that the couple enjoy together in their everyday lives. The lead up to the turning point in which the accident happens will be when the boyfriend drops the girl off at her house and he drives away to go home. On his way he crashes (We won't see this, a audio sound of a car crashing will indicate this). The girl gets a phone call that indicates the bad accident that her boyfriend was in and that he hadn't survived. We then see the grieving process that girl takes emotionally shocked by trying to come to turns with what has happened. The girl cannot except reality that her boyfriend wont be coming back, and would do anything to see him again. The girl expresses her feelings through writing a song about her emotions. This is how the girl overcomes and excepts in time what has happened. The girl uses music to write down/sing how she feels because she feels alone and that know understands how she is hurting. The ending to the film will be a new beginning for the girl to start a new life but holding onto her memories.
The Aim
The aim of the film is for the viewers to understand the feelings and emotions that people go through when grieving and how it affects their lives in the the beginning, but then they get stronger and learn to live with it. The film will be my interpretation of how I would feel and how I would react to a tragic event of losing a loved one. Everyone has a different approach to situations. So the film narrative is important for the viewers to get, but the outcome of how they would feel and react if it happened to them is the message that I want my viewers to think about after watching it.
Problems that may arise
The project will deliver the outcome if everything goes to plan, but it realise on commitment from people. At least another three people will be need to help in the production stage, either filming or acting. Problems like, commitment, colds, flu's may arise, that will affect the timing on reaching the end deadline.
Another problem could be the weather when we are filming outside. Wet weather may ruin expensive equipment and also affect filming. This will also affect the meeting of the project deadline.
Having consent to use the locations to film may not be allowed and looking for new locations could affect the performance and storyline of the film. This will mean we would have to draw new storyboards for that in particular scene.
Overcome the problems
- Find people who I know are reliable, but have backup replacements.
- Have other locations in replace available with storyboards already drawn up.
Duration time of project
Start: 21 February 2012
End: 15 May 2012
Planning and Research
Storyboards
Project Plan
Blog/Diary
Books, Internet and Films/DVDs
Requirements
Locations
Actors
Extra hands for recording the footage
Technical Equipment
Stills Camera(E100)
Tripod
Grey Card
Two HD Cameras
Radio Mic
Software
Adobe Premiere
Adobe AfterAffects
Adobe Photoshop
Roles
Director
Planning and organisation
Research manager
Production/editors team
Inspirational Research
A few different short films on the Internet to gather ideas for my own film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HDu87TGy0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=17IyGPJuH0g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jWDQN0h8xA&feature=related
I also watched these films for ideas of a story narrative:
Raise Your Voice
Life As We Know It
My Ideas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HDu87TGy0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=17IyGPJuH0g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jWDQN0h8xA&feature=related
I also watched these films for ideas of a story narrative:
Raise Your Voice
Life As We Know It
My Ideas
- A day in my life
- Where I want to be and where I am now
- About a boy who is bullied
- Every birthday decreases the time left
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today I setup my blog
This blog will give you the Planning, Development and End product for this project. I will evaluate my performance at different stages throughout the project.
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