Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Camping trip (SHORT FILM)

We were not happy with our first idea so we have agreed on a new idea.

New Idea
Title:

Short Film
Genre: Horror

Characters: Danny, Joe, Emma, Alice and Sarah

  • 2 guys and 3 girls go on a camping trip on the moors one weekend, As the girls are a bit scaed of the dark Danny and Joe fool around to scare the girls by playing silly little pranks e.g. making scary noises and shaking the tent.
  • Later on they go on a little walk to collect some wood for a fire and Joe runs off and then starts making howling noises from behind trees. However after a while the noises stop and the other 3 dont know where hes gone. OR Danny and Joe go on a walk to collect some wood to make a fire, but Danny returns to the tent alone and says Joe wandered off but he should be back later.
  • There about to turn back when they stumble across his body covered in blood the girls scream and Alice stars crying.  OR They all go looking for Joe and come across his body.
  • They're all really scared and Danny tells the three girls to run back to the tent and wait there while he goes to fetch help. The girls get back to the tent, but they havn't been there long when the zip to the door slowly slides open and Danny falls through the tent door dead (or dies as he falls through). The girls scream and then they see a silouette of a person with a weapon through the tent and hes walking round the tent to the entrance.
  • The two girls are screaming their heads off and are scared out of their wits.
  • Then Joe pokes his head through the tent door, and the girls stop and stare in disbelief then Danny and Joe burst out laughing. So the twist is that it was just another prank.

Could say that the girls are killed off until only Danny and the final girl are left and then Danny is killed but its all a prank and they're all alive (twist1) and then after the end credits the final girl really does kill one of the boys for tricking her.

Monday, 2 November 2009

Findings of short films (SHORT FILM)

Location:
Most short films are very low budget and as a result of this the locations are very basic and there tends to be very few of them.

Actors: 
Alot of the time with short films the actors are unknown, alot of the time this is to do with the low budget they have. But actors can use short films as a way of setting off their careers, or they could offer to do them for free to help out friends or use it as a shop window effect for producers to see their talents.

Budget:
The budget for short films is often very low, this has impacts on the actors they can hire, location, costumes and props.