At the end of last week and on Saturday we went location hunting. We needed an office, a bedroom, a kitchen and a coffee shop, we will also be shooting a couple of scenes at school. We went to FM Global in Windsor on friday and took the following photos, we couldn't get any interior shots but here are some of the courtyard area which we may be using for a few exterior shots.
For the Bedroom we have decided to yours either mine or Jack's. My room:
Jack's room:
We are more likely to be using Jack's roon as it hase more space to film in, but Jack is moving house next month so it will depend if we can get all of the Bedroom sequence completed by then.
The short film I have chosen to analyse is called “Snap”, I found it on YouTube. It is an original idea by director Manolo Celi. In the movie, the photographer (Roberto Lequeux) travels through a swarm of unexpected twists and turns living a life altering rollercoaster ride which will forever change his life. The short film "Snap" is an exhilarating and entertaining short film produced for the contest "The Florida Industry Incubator". In this competition teams have only 30 days from when a subject to follow is revealed to them. In this short time they must write, shoot, edit and deliver a 5 min short film.
As it is only a short film it does not follow a typical genre you would associate with a feature length film, it all seems a bit random. In short, the storyline revolves around a guy who steals someone’s camera. The man whose camera it was then chases the thief for the majority of the 4 minute film, throughout the chase sequence the thief takes countless photos of the chase until it concludes with the camera running out of film.
It begins with a couple of establishing shots showing the surrounding area and then show the main character (photographer) sitting at a café drinking coffee, it then cuts to a point of view shot and he is looking over at a family taking photos of one another, the eye-line match that follows signals that the guy in the café has spotted some sort of opportunity. He walks across the street to the family and takes a couple of photos; a medium shot shows the family posing for a couple to be taken. As the man goes to take his camera back, the thief asks for one more and the man reluctantly agrees, as he does this a quick pan of the camera shows the thief begin to run with the camera and this is where the chase sequence begins. High tempo non-diegetic music kicks in at this point to signal the start of the chase and various tracking shots show the two guys running down the street. After this point is where the film starts to become a bit random, as the chase continues the thief runs round the corner and the man who comes round after chasing him is a different guy, this continues to happen on two more occasions and the thief’s clothes also change. Low angled shots show the chase continuing and there is a close up of the thief smiling, showing that he seems to be enjoying what he is doing.
One memorable shot in this sequence is where the guy chasing gets water chucked over him, seemingly from nowhere and the thief turns round, jumps in the air, during this the film is in slow-mo and manages to take a photo just as the water hits the guy chasing. Again there is a close up of the camera thief smiling, as one finally low angled shot shows him running in to a dead end, the music becomes slower and the audience sense he is about to be caught. The guy who runs round the corner is back to the original family man whose camera it was and a close up shot of him shows him to be really angry, a reverse shot then shows the thief give the man a sympathetic look and say “I’ve run out of film”. With the audience left not knowing what is going to happen the film cuts to some sort of art gallery where members of the public are looking at lots of photos on the wall, it turns out that all the photos are the ones taken during the chase. This gives the impression that the guy who stole the camera isn’t actually a thief and was doing this whole stunt for some sort of art project.
In conclusion “Snap” is a very cleverly shot film but the sequence of events that take place during have very little or no meaning, its all very random and I don’t think it has enough to it to become a feature length film.
After the success at AS level, we are all back and ready to start our A2 Media Studies coursework. We plan on making a short film and I will again use this blog to show our progress throughout planning and filming. Lets hope we are as successful as last year..
