Raise Your Voice

DVD Commentary

For Question 1 (In what ways do my short film use conventions...)
here are the links to more in depth analysis + reflection of the short films on my blog:

When Five Fell
http://zenarabe.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/when-five-fell-short-film-conventions.html
Intercom
http://zenarabe.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/analysis-of-intercom-short-film.html
will and The Terms
http://zenarabe.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/narrative-techniques-part-23.html

Film Magazine Review - Sight & Sound

Film Poster - Raise Your Voice

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Screening with Audience Feedback

My Film Poster

This is the draft of my short film poster which I've begun editing using Photoshop.

Short Film Poster Analysis

Django Unchained

Making the template for my Film Review using Adobe InDesign

Filming Day

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New Script

Due to actors pulling out at the last minute, we have decided to shorten the script to accomadate the available actors who can make it to the filming.

Raise Your Voice (Revised)

Shot List

Shot List

Props

These are the posters that Robyn made for the filming based on her research on the student protest.

Costumes

Jane

In the short film, Jane is supposed to be a shy and timid girl. Although she strongly opposes the education cuts she still believes that violence is not the key to demonstrations. We want to base Jane's characterisation to Zoe Williams who was a student peace maker in the 2010 London student protests who tried to stop students from smashing vans. There weren't a lot of full body shots of Williams but the picture from above reveals her wearing a thick jacket and a big scarf.

Molly

 Molly is the complete opposite of Jane, she is wild, rash and aggressive which leads to both of them getting arrested in the short film. I looked for articles about students getting arrested in the in the London demonstrations due to riots and the picture above shows a woman that could fit Molly's description. We could base Molly's clothes using this picture and we could see that she is wearing thinner clothes than Zoe.

Props

Robyn who is in charge of props will be basing the poster which our lead character will be "creating" by using this list she researched on the actual posters used by students in the 2010 protest.

Recruiting our Composer

 

This is the conversation that I had when recruiting the composer for our short film. It also includes why I wanted this particular person to compose the music, how I want it to be composed, how it reflects the film and why it would suit our genre.

Production Meeting

Rescheduling day for filming with Bridgwater Student Union

Location Recce

Location idea 1, a typical lounge. The reason why did not use this idea was because none of our lounges looked student like, therefore wrecking the whole idea of our short film, that the people are at university.

Production Meeting

Reflective Analysis on Empire and Sight & Sound

                                           Empire                                                             Sight and Sound

Actual Review

Empire employs a system wherein it avoids analysis of the films and often labels whether a film is "good" or "bad"which is done by introducing a ranking system or a "star verdict". It is also rather more informative whereas Sight & Sound is more critical. It demands specialist in-depth analysis of the stylistic elements of the film, mise-en-scene, genre and production techniques while Empire offers brief synopsis in terms of plot, narradtive, characters effects and entertainment value.

Layout

Both magazines have a higher body of text to image ratio but Empire displays a bigger sized image than S&S (but this is partly due to the fact that Empire has a double page spread review on the film). Empire also uses bolder texts and different coloured fonts as opposed to S&S's basic normal sized and black coloured fonts. Similarly both have white coloured background as to not retract from the actual review of the film.

My verdict

In terms of the written review, I prefer to write one for my short film in the style of Sight & Sound. I want it to target audience who are interested in the analytical side of the film rather than blindly saying what is good and what is bad. In terms of layout however, I prefer Empire's bolder text, incorporation of a quotation in large font across the page and more colours. However I wouldn't follow the exact layout used here in my own magazine review layout. I want my magazine review to possibly include one or two more images and I certainly would not include a verdict or star ranking in my magazine.