Fun of Filming - Blooper Reel

This is a humerous showcase of when filming did not excactly go to plan. Enjoy our blooper reel.

Audience Feedback Interviews

Here are a range of students that we interviewed to gain audience feedback of our film.

Production Process of Filming

The equipment we used to film our film include a basic tripod and a digital video camera, we had to use natural lighting and only the sounds picked up by the video camera, so basic equipment. The majority of our filming took part in Eastbrook Chase, a local nature preserve that had the characteristics we needed such as woodland areas and a river.

During the filming procedure we encountered a number of setbacks. A number of setbacks were due to the shooting schedule, although we did have a shooting schedule there were often changes made to it which sometimes affected our filming process. After we made our initial schedule we then had to change our actress because of conflicting agendas. Which resulted in us acting the roles. This set us back as we had not prepared to act the roles ourselves as we wanted to concentrate on the aspects of the film behind the camera. Following the loss of our actress we then lost a fellow member of the group due to a lack of participation on there part, this also created further obstacles and strain on our shooting schedule as we then had to re-arrange how we were to film the film as both us remaining members were also the actors in the film.


This is footage of our original actress Nataile Camilleri

This sometimes caused difficulty especially when both character's were involved in the scene but on the other hand, made it easier for us to arrange to film and follow the schedule as we only had to have the two of us there, when there were more people we often found it difficult to get everyone to be in the same place at the same time. As there were only two of us in our group film and we were both acting out roles in the film we ad to be clever and creative in how we shot scenes that involved both of us in the shot which basically involved setting up the camera initially then getting into out position leaving the camera unattended.

Other setbacks in our schedule was the cancellation's due to weather which would have effected the continuity of our film and the change in our script, changing the process of the film meant we had re-plan and adapt our schedule and editing what we already shot to suit the adaptations. The reasoning behind changing the storyline of our film was that we found filming a car accident with the basic equipment we had seem a bit of an ambitious idea, one that we couldn't match. Therefore after a failed realistic attempted we opted to change the storyline of the film to a modern approach to the classic villain and victim horror film with a stalker being the modern monster.

Editing Process of Film

The editing process of the film was by the software Adobe Premiere in which we uploaded what we filmed onto the software programme in order to alter it in the way we seemed fit which involved cutting out unwanted outtakes and deleting unwanted scenes. The editing process also aloud us to judge our film from an outside perspective in what we believed as a viewer needed to be either changed, added or redone.

The editing process also involved altering scenes brightness in order to make them darker to suit the theme of the scene such as scary scenes. Other aspects of the film we could edit was the pace of the film which we chose not to do and the addition of our music track Teardrop by Massive Attack which we could then further manipulate to become either more louder or more quite to add effect to dramatic moments.

We could also add special effects when using Adobe Premiere when editing our film such as side swipes or other transition to add to the effect of a passage in time which we chose not to add to our film but keep with the continuity editing to show the progress of the runners journey.

Creating Our Institution Logo

We were instructed to produce our own institution logo to put on our poster and perhaps somewhere on our magazine review page. what we firstly done was research other famous film logos to give us ideas and inspiration to create our own logo.

After our research we had a little discussion session and roughly sketched a few ideas of different symbols we can use and names that we apply to it. When figuring out a symbol we had the idea of having a symbol linked to film, screen or sound and we creatively came up with the idea of a megaphone linking to the old stereotype of an old fashioned director. once we identified a symbol we had to associate a name with it in which we aimed to create a catchy name. the name we came up with was Megazone which we found to be comical irony.

We decided with the light and dark blue colour scheme due to a common agreement between us on what colour most suited the design.

Creating Film Poster Title and Tagline

When creating the title of our film we first had to select a name of the title which at this point was still undecided. We then selected our two favourite's from our list of suggestions and previously said that one would be our title and the other our tagline. Our top two suggestion were Silent Runner and One Step Too Far. We finally decided that Silent Runner would be our title and One Step Too Far would be our tagline as that what we believe was the most effect and suitable.

Whe researching possible fonts for our title we found that adding effects to the font didnt work well as we experimented with a number of styles and decided that we should adopt and more simple approach.

When deciding our design of our title we agreed that we would have a strait neat title and do something effective with the colouring. We picked the font style Century Gothic as we believe it would be effective in our poster, plus the name of the font stood out due to the genre of our film our tagline was of the same font and Italic. After writing the title in this font we noticed that unintentionally that the t in the word silent i our title looked like a crucifix and thought that we could something effective with that and colour that letter red to give the hidden message of danger.

We also believe it would be effective to separate the two words of the title separated with the second word beginning underneath conjoined with the crucifix to illustrate a embedded symbolism.

Research Into Our Target Audience

Once we established our idea and gained inspiration through researching other short films we needed to define our target audience to direct our film towards to attract to them. Where it should give the audience what they expect from the format of convention but at the same time challenge and surprise them.

Our target audience was stated as being of 14 - 25, although due to the content, can be viewed from the age of twelve but our film in general is targeted to appeal to this age boundary.

Our target audience is not sex restricted and should appeal to both genders of our audience. Our audience is also defined as class c in the social demographic scale as the majority of our audience are estimated to be students. Also in conjunction with the student lifestyle we attracting to their adventurous lifestyle and laid back demeanor.

The reason why we had to state a target audience was to act as a basis to appeal to whilst planning and producing our Short Film production.

Researching Other Short Films

When researching other short films we looked into the conventions of short films and how they differ from feature films. Conventions of short films include they they are usually set at the the time period of 5 - 7 minutes. They also usually involve few actors for few characters. Also a common feature in short films include a music track in the background throughout the film that usually gives effect or adds to the message of the short film. We also researched other short films to give us inspiration in how to present our idea in the short film style. Here's a short film that inspired us:



We also how to consider how audiences use short film and how they view it which also involved how short films are distributed. traditionally short film were shown during film festivals that would travel around to entertain the local community and to advanced publicity for up and coming directors. However in the modern era and advancement in technology short films now are usually viewed on the Internet on popular Internet websites that show video clips online such as http://www.youtube.co.uk/.