Completed Short Film

After watching the final piece of the lady and the cake, I think the things I would like to go back and change would be the transitions between the music as it is sometimes to sudden, and I would of liked to of had more shots of Bethan when she was eating the cake as we only have three different shots of her doing this. I think the narrative to the story is quite strong and I like the simplicity of it, making people not really have to think about it, also I think the acting worked very well and the effect that was put onto it. I’m glad we chose to make it a silent film as I think dialogue would have maybe ruined, especially as we sped the film up. When it came to editing our piece we had mixed feeling to whether we should leave it in colour or put it in black and white, but I’m glad we found the effect we used, this also helped with making all the lighting seem similar and making it all seem more short film like and brighter.

The only code and convention for short film is the length of it and our film falls under this, but as a silent film it also fits into most of the more obvious codes and conventions, it uses music instead of dialogue and it’s sped up and all the acting is exaggerated. Although many silent films are in black and white, this is likely that when silent film was the mainstream, this was because the technology was not yet that developed, allowing our film to still fall under the genre of short film.

As we made this film as a pair I believe we both equally contributed to the making and pre production of this film. We came up with the idea as a pair during inspiration week and it spiralled off from there. I created the storyboards and the majority of the PowerPoint presentation that we showed the class. We both filmed together and edited together both coming up with different ideas of what to do, although we already had decided upon the outcome of what we wanted our piece to look like.

I think this was the most successful video project I have ever created at this school because it was half my say and I was working with someone who has a similar way to working as me. Most of the ideas we came up with both of us liked and we were both very happy with our final idea, leaving no negativity towards it. Also, I think because the tale of the lady and the cake was something we both enjoyed making as it was something we had produced on our own, we were a lot happier about actually filming it and editing it.