Our Short Film (Planning)

Firstly i'll just try and sum up what has happened to lead our group to where we are at this present moment in time.

Originally i think everyone kind of decided to not trust eachother and let one anothers preconcieved judgements on who would and wouldnt pull their weight get the better of them. But after a few lessons and discussions and an input from Mr Fairnie about how he would love us all to do a film we all finally decided upon creating our own short film!

So yeah, in our group its:
Me (Jake Saunders)
Tara Costello
Calum Jackson
and George Wolfwood.

Firstly we brainstormed ideas that we randomly came up with whilst reading through a newspaper, but no mutual agreement was ever made upon a secure idea =
So next lesson we all went into the mac room and watched some odd short films, one of which was about a crazy man who abducted a prostitue and put his dead wifes aborted foetus inside the prostitute? was really freaky for something that was less than ten minutes long...

but then (being the silly bookworm i am >:3) i brought the notion of a crazy lady in an attic into discussion and the group all agreed that this could possibly work if we could make it obscure and somewhat delve into the lifestyle/mindset of a crazy woman in an attic.

Then after some of us watched the film "Eraserhead" we tried to discuss upon maybe changing our initial idea into one of a crazy man in an attic, and perhaps obtaining a pigs brain from a butchers and using callums smoke machine to create a crazy non-linear short film about some next crazy guy. the idea was well recieved mutually by the group but we were still deliberating as to where we would film and who would act. Tara and Georges houses/attics were to be our filming locations, but we didnt know who we could have act out the part and if we could make it effective.

We discussed this whole idea for a while and eventually in Ms Moore's lesson after discussing it with her we decided that we had put too much weight on our shoulders (metaphorically speaking) and setting ourselves a hard and dubious task when it needent be, SO! new concept. we discussed the whole concept of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and how we could create a short film about one persons specific compulsion or addiction to a particular object/way of acting.

The jokily someone suggested we use Tara and her sketchbook for our idea! (as she's always doing work in it and lurvessss her booky wook). But then we decided that it would be pretty easy! so yeh WOOOO. Our final idea was on the table and we all agreed that we could make it work and film using the broadcast camera and do our best to make it fast paced and lively. Also try to communicate the somewhat mundane and dubious task of schoolwork is an addiction and compulsion for some people. I'll continue this in my next post because i just wanna put some extra bits here at the bottom:


For our original idea (mad woman in the attic) i would've loved to have a song or potential music/background noise added in over the top like this song ;D i think the opening and screamy bit and gradual build up and then beating down piano would've worked well in depicting someones madness. (ignore the shabby video it sucks just listen to the song)




Also here is the monster baby death scene from Eraserhead. (freaky black and white film that Callum gets a boner over) we originally thought of perhaps adapting the mad woman in the attic storyline to fit this crazy obscure style with black and white, but we didnt lol. but watch anyway!



but hey, we didn't go ahead with that idea so forget about that.

OCD IDEA:

we youtubed about in lesson time and watched a sequence on OCD from Grey's Anatomy (i loveeeee greys anatomy >.<) and from it we saw that some cases of OCD are uncontrollable and it's almost as if an innate drive is pushing the man in it to have these compulsions and to count to a certain number. in conclusion OCD = WEIRD: try and interpret it in more of a "workaholic" sense. (this is the video i just spoke about)

hahahahahahahaha makes me laugh if im honest, 33 siren woops. cleancleanclean. poor guy :(

I'm gonna continue our following ideas of our short film and details of our first day of filming/uploading and editingin the next post i do!

and well done to Joe Smith for winning the Alturnative prize tonight!
:D

xoxoxo