Poster Analysis

Bend It Like Backham


Alice in Wonderland Poster



Jennifers Body


Real Steel

SAMPLE QUESTIONAIRE

Here is our sample questionaire to help us establish our target audience is, what they think about short films and how they're film watching habits in general.

QUESTIONAIRE

Changing our original idea

After having watched and studied the short films ive realised that our storylines are to complicated for 5 minutes and having a short, interesting, simple storyline would be much better and would look good. For example, using a lot less characters, less locations and less narrative.
We therefore came up with this new idea which will be a hybrid documentary theme (mockumentary) in which we will make a fake student documentary taken in the aftermath of someones death. Over the course of filming, the interviews will unearth who his true friends are and the peer pressure youung people are under.

MYXOMATOSIS 13,704

OFF SEASON (on the BBC so must be very popular)




CRAZY HANDS 58,981

These three short films that i found have some differences but they also have a lot in common. For example:
They all have few locations, due to a low budget. Off season is a little different as they use two houses but that is all they use.
They averagely come to about 10 minutes in timing. Myxomatosis is 4.42. Crazy Hands is 7.25 and Off Season is 11.21. This is very short so usually all that the stories have is a moral story beneath the surface.
They all have an odd, comical story line.

What is a short film?

A short film is any film that is not long enough to be thought of as a feature film. But people can not decide what the boundary is for the length. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences define a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits".
In North America a short film usually runs in 20-40 minutes and focuses mainly on character but in places including Europe and New Zealand a short film can be anything between 1 and 15 minutes and focuses mainly on story line and twists.

Genre Brain Storm

The Pitch , tittle tbc

Laura is from a middle class background but due to her fathers absence her and her mother are struggling to make ends meat. Her father left because the mother had an affair in which Laura now blames the mother for her fathers departure,
Her goal in life is to open her own tattoo parlour and for this there is in her eyes no need for any degree like qualifications. Therefore she does not want to go to university, but her mother disagrees and this is where there real conflict hits. It causes many a argument after argument. They both refuse to compromise with any ideas.
There is an alternative group of drop puts who go to lots of punk parties in random secret warehouses, Laura joins them and goes to one. In the moment, while high, they spontaneously decide to go away. She hurries home to grab some money and a few food supplies, knowing full well that her mother will not be happy with what she has done.
They arrive at this garage like building and everyone including Lauera is having a good time. Laura ends up kissing one of the guys, Jake, the one that is in charge and she has fallen for. But soon they run out of supplies and the guys go off to buy some more with the money that Laura took from her mum. While there goon the other girl, Hannah, admits to sleeping with Jake the night that Laura had kissed him.