Exercise Tasks

Documentary:
Our first task was to be split into groups, and we were given a certain style in which we needed to create a short film with, which for us was 'documentary' which I was happy with, as I have always wanted to look into the style of documentary, as it's something I'm quite keen and interested in. In our groups we then had a limited amount of time to begin filming in this style, and we were not allowed to edit either. So we decided to do a documentary about life at a High School, from both the teachers and students point of views. This worked well, as we had quite a lot of comedy involved within the film. This task has definitely made me consider doing my short film in this style, as I really enjoyed creating it.

The Smiths:
We were given a task to choose a song title from the band, 'The Smiths', which we had to then create a short film based around that title. Our title was ' There is a light that never goes out' which we choose as we thought we could come up with quite a number of ideas based around it. We decided to go down the horror route, in which we had a setting of an underground dungeon, where someone was being held against their will their. The story was about a student at a school was missing from her class, however her best friend saw her earlier on that day, as she goes to investigate where she could be, another male student 'tries' to help her, however his intentions of helping her weren't necessarily true. As he takes her down some stairs, which he states he was sure he saw the missing girl go down, he pushes her into the underground dungeon, where the other girl is laying. As he slams the door shut behind him, and everyone goes home, the light in the dungeon never goes out. This emphasises that everybody else will carry on with their normal day, unaware of these girls being locked away.

Telephone:
In class we were grouped up and give an object, which in our case was a telephone. We were then told we had to create a short film, based around and including the object given (telephone) without using any editing programme after, meaning everything had to be in order. After brainstorming a few ideas, we decided to base our short film around mysterious phone calls. The story involved a young female initially at her work place, receiving strange call on her phone, which she believe could just be prank calls or somebody messing around. However when she leaves her work place, she again gets a call on her mobile phone, when she begins to talk to this caller. However she is unaware that the mysterious caller is watching her every move and begins to scare the female character. She hangs up on the phone call, and starts to walk home, where suddenly someone come's up behind her and pulls her to the ground. The scene ends with the female lying dead on the ground, with the telephone cord wrapped around her neck.