The name of our piece is brief encounter, Our piece conforms to short films as it is a low budget production with tells a story of to people falling in love in a book shop we had a short cast of 4 unknown people and is less than 30 mins long it also has a non conventional ending with robbers coming in the library to hold the people in the library hostage
The original idea for our short film on a train and a man come on the train to show 7/7 bombing however as it wasn’t a practical idea we changed the idea where some robber come intro a book shop and hold them hostage however due to another change in location we had to change the idea around as the location wasn’t as we planned.
Our short film is influenced by the match.com, as we tried to get the same feel and the same whimsical look we has the same sort of story line with a man an a women who fall for each other in a shop our short film has minimal speech and relies on there facial expression to tell the story.
I really liked the location which we used even though it wasn’t the location we originally had in mind which was a book shop. I think it had a nice rich look to it which fit the story line well however due to it being a different location we had to change the story line on the day of filming because of this I don’t think our ending works well and may leave the audience confused. I also like the coloring that we put on top of the clips we made it look brighter with a slight grainy effect, by doing this it made the film look more like the match.com advert however some clips looked better than other as they had natural lighting.
In our short film we used a lot of different camera techniques for example we used low and high angle shots to show there emotion from different perspectives we also used some over the shoulder shots and close ups .continuity is used a lot on our shot film especially in the beginning of our short film when she is walking in to the library and talking to the librarian we thought that this was very important to keep the audience interested and so the story flows well.
One of my roles was to find the location which was the hardest of them all it took me two week to find it. One down fall was that we wanted a book shop and every time I asked they said that a book shop is a quite environment and that we would make too much noise and may disrupt their customers , I then thought about filming in a library however I had and contact the Southwark and Lambeth film council to get a filming license to do so , they closed off the library which they let us film in which was nice off them .My other roles was to do the production schedule and the props me and Jerome both made the presentation. We both took turns to film our short film however Jerome took more of the director roles as it was his idea.
We wanted to use music that connected with the story of two people falling in love we went on sound wave to contact some artist about there songs and whether or not we could use it for our project we did find one song that fit our short film perfectly however we were unable to use it.
When it came to the tittles we wanted then to look like a hest with the name “brief encounter “fast paste and really grab the audiences attention and then right after the title come up the character name will appear like in ocean 11 we wanted to do this because our story is a tragic love story where the male protagonist dies at the end when the two robber come in to the library and then end it then goes back to the names of the actors and me and Jerome’s name.
Overall I think that Jerome and I worked very well together considering that we have never worked together before and I think that our piece came out very well.
