Rebecca Barnard BTEC Media (1)

12th October 2016 (2 Lessons) In today's lessons our group managed to finish our storyboard for our 90 second short. We went and assessed the location that we are going to film in (park opposite college), took pictures to refer back to when planning and briefly planned how we were going to shoot. We then returned to class and completed a Film Location Recce, outlining potential sound and light issues that we could come across. Finally we began to write the dialogue for our short film. 17th October 2016 (2 Lessons) In today's lessons, we collected all f our paperwork together and completed any paperwork that were still incomplete, for instance location recces, shot list etc. We also completed and typed up our script. 19th October 2016 (2 Lessons) Today, we been filming out 90 second short film. We acquired actors, completed talent releases and began filming at our chosen location. Today, the weather was particularly miserable which gave us a few hazards that we had

'The End' http://www.depict.org/2002/the-end/?category_request=picks&doing_wp_cron=1475495790.1752729415893554687500 This DepicT short called 'The End' really stood out to me as one of the best that I'd seen. It highly interested me as the entire short is shot in one location, with one character, whilst managing to maintain the audience's attention with a humorous story line. The very simple concept is achieved with diegetic sound, and without this the entire story line wouldn't actually exist. The whole short is based upon sound and lighting to create the illusion that every time he moves the globe it triggers the movement of the entire planet, resulting in very dim lighting to represent night, and diegetic synchronous sound of cars crashing and people screaming implies to the viewer that because nobody can see, everything is going wrong. A short film such as this shows that extensive amounts of props, actors and money is not needed to create a hum