I have finally finished the short film. For a first timer i must say it turned out quite well. It was quite fun looking at the different options in which would either cut the short film, or add voice over, or add special effects. It was a bit of a challenge but at last its finished. Its in the like below
Short film editing Process
Here are some of the images while editing the short film process. When I cut a video short. Where I add the melody that goes with it. When I add the voice over. It’s all there.
Sort film Editing
Now that I have finished shooting my short film, I will edit on a program which is called Adobe Premire Pro. I cannot wait to get started and see how the short film will turn out.
Beginning the short film
Now that my short film has a storyboard and a script, i can finally begin shooting the short film. I will do a schedule where I write all of the days in which I am going to shoot the short film.
Date Time Location
3 January Morning Maximir Park/Zagreb
4 January Afternoon Maximir Park/Zagreb
The Script
Here I am going to show the script for the short film.
Based on
Original story
Fade in:
Ext. The forest
Non-Diegetic sound begins
The Forest
I don’t really need people but people need me.
Change of shots
The Forest
Your future depends on me.
When I thrive, you thrive.
When I fall you will fall.
The earth, the water, the sky.
I have lived in this earth for hundreds of millions of years.
Longer than any species alive and dead.
Change of shot
The Forest
I have carried species greater then you.
I have starved species greater then you.
I have survived stronger hazards then you.
How you choose to live each day whether you regard or disregard me doesn’t really matter.
Your actions will determine your fate.
Not mine.
I am the trees, I am the forest and I will go on.
Change of shot
The Forest
It is because of me that every living thing is surviving each and every day.
It is because of me that you get shelter, food, comfort and many other commodities in life.
Change of shot
The Forest
Wherever u go, u will see a part of me.
The world used to be covered by me.
You would see green everywhere.
Though now that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
Every year I either get cut down, burned, or waste away.
Due to the weather conditions changing the habitats don’t seem to get the weather that it’s supposed too.
Change of Shot
The Forest
I am slowly dying.
In the short run this doesn’t mean much towards humans.
But in the long run it could cause some serious consequences.
Without me you will not be able to breathe.
Without me u won’t be able to feed.
Change of Shot
The Forest
Without me I will not be able to store all the animals I give shelter too.
Without me you won’t be able to live.
I hold much more value to humans then humans hold to me.
I don’t need humans in order to survive but humans need me.
I am prepared to evolve
Are you.
The camera zooms out
The non-diegetic melody stops
End of scene
Fade out
The storyboard
Here is my storyboard for the movie. It’s from end to beginning
Storyboard and Script
Before shooting the short film you need to draw a storyboard which will show all your planning shots and how your short film is going to look like. The script will show all the content in which the short film will uphold and the changing of the camera movement.
Risk Assessment Task
Before starting to shoot the movie you apparently need to fill this paper insuring your safety.
| RISK ASSESSMENT FORM |
| The British International School Zagreb As and A Level Media Studies |
| Name: Sindi Poda | Class: Year 13 | Date: 21/11/2018 |
| Activity: Shooting a movie | Location:The Forest | |
| List hazards here: | Groups of people who are especially at risk from the identified hazards: | How will you control this risk? | Post event review |
| Water | Sindi | By getting an umbrella | When shooting the movie, in the forest it will rain and so umbrella will be needed. |
| Camera tools | Ilda | Box | When shooting the movie, there will be a box where to put all the tools |
| Era |
Date:21/11/2018
Signature: Sindi Poda
Title Decision?
Coming up with a title can be much more challenging than you would think. It needs to be something that will represent the content of the whole short film. If the title is not right then there won’t be much understanding on the topic that will be presented in the short film. The title needs to be catchy in order to get the audiences attention once they see it. The good thing is that since my whole topic is going to be for one topic only I have decided to name my short film “The Forest”
Short film Review
Everyone needs to send the teacher a short film Review in order to be approved by the teacher. I have already discussed my idea for the movie to my teacher and he found the idea very fascinating. Therefore here is my short film review.
A Level short film package Summary (The Forest)
The protagonist of this short film will be the forest. It will tell it’s story about how much it has helped humanity while humanity didn’t seem to be doing even a friction of the benefits that the forest had done for them. The story will progress with the forest narrating all the benefits that it has given human kind such as oxygen to breath in order for them to survive, food in order for them to not starve of hunger, wood in order to keep them warm in the midst of cold nights, shelter when huge storms hit the earth. On the other hand humanity destroys trees just for the sake of it. They destroy entire forests for the purpose of building a new toxic companies and limiting their own supply of fresh air. They paint and cut branches for their amusement. Despite paper being made from their wood most of it doesn’t even get used for the sake of it. they litter and create huge piles of trash that just makes the whole environment even the more toxing. Despite so much damage that had been done to the forest one thing that humanity didn’t and still doesn’t seem to understand is that without trees and forests they won’t be able to survive. Despite new technologies advancing everyday, they haven’t seemed to come up with a way to produce air without the use of trees. Nature is evolving each year and forests with adapt with it, but after a while humanity will not be able to adapt with it too.So there they have it, as much as humanity denies they can’t survive without the help of forests while on the other hand forests can have a whole lot of a better life without humanity around.
The camera techniques which will be used will mainly be directed towards different images of forests and how is some cases they evolve and in how they perish. As for the cast there will probably be some classmates in which will do acts such as littering and throwing paper without even using it in order to create arguments as to how people all around the world mistreat the things that are given to them without a care in the world.
Forest Blog 