Beauty is a curse
We had to create ideas for a film so we decided to brainstorm potential ideas and look at examples of other films to expand ideas on our own film.
Firstly we decided to give people in our group different roles. We started by deciding who was going to be the main camera man/director which was Olly. After that we discussed on how many characters was needed and who would be the ideal one to play each character. We all agreed on Jamie being the main character (Jordan), Me being The second main character (Jade) and finally Cameron being 'kief' who heroically took on the curse. We had Joshua and Ramil as our extra characters.
After deciding on the character roles and we had a bit more sense on the film we then decided to expand on our film ideas by then creating a script. We did this by basically thinking about the main story line of the film and based most of the script around the character profiles and main story line.
We made a story board that made this a bit easier and more organised. On each story board it explained each scene. However we didn’t follow the story board as much as we expected too. While filming we had difficulty getting the right places but we adjusted to the scene's we had and I personally think we made it work extremely well specially since we was limited on what/where we could do due group complications for example getting there etc. However while we was filming our group worked together extraordinary well we listened and helped each other when needed and adjusted each scene to their standard making sure they were comfortable when acting.
Another thing I liked while recording is that we used different techniques while we filming such as different angles. The different angles we used varied on each scene. For example in one scene it shows Jamie reading so we changed the angle into an over the shoulder angle which helped the audience have a 'closer' view on what Jamie is looking at. Another example of an angle we did was where we moved the camera to follow someone moving, this angle is called 'panning' We put our camera on the tripod and followed the scene horizontally giving it more of an 'moving' effect as if the audience is moving their head to follow the character in the film.
At the title and at the credits we used the same horror themed song. It creates a sinister feeling of suspense with its chilling music. While filming and editing the film I realised that it is a lot harder than it seems to create a film, there’s a lot more to it than just angles and props. It needs a lot of organising, skills and quite a bit or practicing and preparing before actually filming.
There were quite a lot of difficulties while recording. For example some days the main character had an exam or another day one of our other characters might have been off college. This made it a bit more time consuming however we ended up filming what we needed. We didn’t really need props or costumes apart from newspaper which I provided for the group however we did do some mistakes while editing for example we accidently deleted a footage which then we had to record again.
If I had to redo 'beauty is a curse' I would personally make it a lot more organised and stick to the story board a lot more. Also I would like to make it more interesting for example bringing more props in or going to a different area to make it a bit more different but overall I am satisfied with how our short film ended up.
Firstly we decided to give people in our group different roles. We started by deciding who was going to be the main camera man/director which was Olly. After that we discussed on how many characters was needed and who would be the ideal one to play each character. We all agreed on Jamie being the main character (Jordan), Me being The second main character (Jade) and finally Cameron being 'kief' who heroically took on the curse. We had Joshua and Ramil as our extra characters.
After deciding on the character roles and we had a bit more sense on the film we then decided to expand on our film ideas by then creating a script. We did this by basically thinking about the main story line of the film and based most of the script around the character profiles and main story line.
We made a story board that made this a bit easier and more organised. On each story board it explained each scene. However we didn’t follow the story board as much as we expected too. While filming we had difficulty getting the right places but we adjusted to the scene's we had and I personally think we made it work extremely well specially since we was limited on what/where we could do due group complications for example getting there etc. However while we was filming our group worked together extraordinary well we listened and helped each other when needed and adjusted each scene to their standard making sure they were comfortable when acting.
Another thing I liked while recording is that we used different techniques while we filming such as different angles. The different angles we used varied on each scene. For example in one scene it shows Jamie reading so we changed the angle into an over the shoulder angle which helped the audience have a 'closer' view on what Jamie is looking at. Another example of an angle we did was where we moved the camera to follow someone moving, this angle is called 'panning' We put our camera on the tripod and followed the scene horizontally giving it more of an 'moving' effect as if the audience is moving their head to follow the character in the film.
At the title and at the credits we used the same horror themed song. It creates a sinister feeling of suspense with its chilling music. While filming and editing the film I realised that it is a lot harder than it seems to create a film, there’s a lot more to it than just angles and props. It needs a lot of organising, skills and quite a bit or practicing and preparing before actually filming.
There were quite a lot of difficulties while recording. For example some days the main character had an exam or another day one of our other characters might have been off college. This made it a bit more time consuming however we ended up filming what we needed. We didn’t really need props or costumes apart from newspaper which I provided for the group however we did do some mistakes while editing for example we accidently deleted a footage which then we had to record again.
If I had to redo 'beauty is a curse' I would personally make it a lot more organised and stick to the story board a lot more. Also I would like to make it more interesting for example bringing more props in or going to a different area to make it a bit more different but overall I am satisfied with how our short film ended up.
