Here is our finished film, the quality of the picture is blurry as it had to be condensed considerabley so that it would be uploaded on to youtube effectively.
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Evaluation
When deciding on the story for our short film we had come to the conclusion that it would have been best to follow a standard narrative because of the complexity behind the actual story, and it would simply be clearer if we had the simple structure that a normally narrative provides.
On the terms of Genre we went for a thriller/horror approach, it is difficult to define the genre entirely but here is a few links (http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html, http://www.filmsite.org/subgenres.html.) that you may follow to explain the genre's in greater depth and to see whether you agree or not. It is more than likely that our short film is a hybrid of many genres much like the modern short films produced today. We tried to follow the basic conventions of thriller/horror by including the idea of the dark figure with no face, the thought behind this was to explore the viewers fear of the unknown. It is a similar point with clowns, a possible theory behind the phobia of clowns is the fact you can not actually see their proper face, and ties in with the unknown factor that I wanted to get across in the shadow character of our short film.
I also tried to get across the feel of horror and thriller in the music I had produced, I used a range of sounds and effects to create suspense and a sense of uneasiness form the very beginning. The bells and some slight timing variations with the synth sounds I managed to create an abstract sound that creates a feeling of suspense with the tambourine and heart beat drums to add to that effect more .To build the suspense I added choirs wind like noises and hellish screams to send chills down the spine when it came to the climax of the piece, I also added a distinctive Piano tune to portray the sadness and grief normally experienced from horror/ thriller films.
In relation to the 'What makes a good short film ' by the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/introduction/what-makes-a-good-short) Our film has a medium strength script, there isn't much actual taking in our film, it was mainly stage directions and so on, but they are all part of the script. Sections of the film could have been made clearer wit ha slight alteration to the actions and voice over’s used, for example the scene where the Author delete his story, it is not perfectly clear what he is doing. With slight alteration and only adding 20-30 seconds max to the total length would make the story and that scene a lot clearer than it currently is.
I think our story had achieved a good level of originality through the fact that it combines reality and fantasy in a very different light, through an author’s novel we see his creation happening in real life, and even after it has been deleted it still continues using reflections as the /portal/ between the worlds almost. (That last idea is admittedly clichéd).
In terms of acting, our main character is performed by a student who takes performing arts and has appeared in many local productions done by the local drama club, and was very good at acting out the scenes no matter how absurd! Since I was part of the acting as well (playing the role of the Author) I felt I did well for someone who has little experience in acting, I think the fact that me and the actress (Emily) are old friends from primary school all the way through to college put me at ease when acting in front of the camera and provided the natural friendship feeling that was put across at the very start of the film.
When looking back over the film it shows a good flow between each clip, thanks to the use of HD cameras, careful preparation between shots and good continuous lighting. The acting from Emily is of a high quality
The film is short at under 5 minutes keeping it short and sweet is the best approach and I think 5 minutes is a good time to approach that 'philosophy' with.
A strong beginning, is one thing that I find our short film to be lacking, as it is a steady introduction to the characters and not a introduction that would grab your attention instantly, and I think this may damage the films effectiveness in the long run.
We avoided repetition as much as possible, and I think there are not very many repetitions apart form the fast flash back of the recent events, but adds a certain desired effect to the story and does not distract the audience from it, we also avoided the punch line twists by keeping the end simple and effective and offering little hints throughout the film to build up to that final scene.
In relation to new techniques we discovered an interesting technique to create a scratchy like image with a loud distorted noise all by using the trolley without it's tracks, and running it across the tarmac.
When looking at our poster, we copied the style of the 'I’m not there' Poster, as the general composition of the poster fitted our initial sketches as seen on the storyboard sheets posted earlier. We decided that a pure black and white approach would best fit the short film it was advertising, as it is black and white that makes up a novel on the computer screen, or even in the book, no colours other than black and white and creates a good correlation between the two. It also provides the striking contrast to make the image more striking.
The font is a particular favourite of mine and well chosen by Jamie, slightly eroded and damaged just like the story is when it's deleted, and confuses reality with fantasy.
The Tag line again is well chosen as it suggests the main feature of the story without giving it away, it puts the whole idea that the erase key does more than just erase something like a story; it is much more than that. The image of the head with no face, lost in the blackness relates to the actual shadow figure in the short film, it creates a sense of interest into what is behind the blackness covering his face, why is it not there etc. And those questions will make the audience want to watch the film and find out! They will not get exact answers but they will get a story equally compelling. It is a debatable point that the poster does not raise the right questions is unsuccessful, but I feel that having the poster raise a number of questions that makes them watch the short film and even though their questions are not answered completely the poster still does its primary job of pulling in the audience.
For the article we had decided that the images should be placed in a scrapbook/diary arrangement to fit the style of a sneak peak interview that makes up the majority of the article.
The photos were placed in a range of angles and overlapping to let them flow from one to the other revealing little bits of how the film was made, and actual shots from the film acting as little tasters to entice the audience to read the article and watch the film on its release. Thus is the desired effect. We also took the title directly from the poster to link them both together, the faded like background relates to the idea of fading away, like when you erase pencil with a rubber however I feel that the background should have been darker to give better contrast like the poster to help link the two together better.
On a whole the 3 products all work well together as they poster offers a compelling image that entices the audiences to want to watch the film, where as the article promotes the film from a different approach giving a human face on the producers and crew of the film giving it a more friendly appearance, yet still relating it to the short film and trying to make the audience want to watch it, in a subtle way.
In my personal view I find that the poster is stronger than the article as it is more striking visually, and I feel that the article misses that aspect to help boost the promotional purposes it was made for. The film and the poster are tied for the best as I feel that both were executed well and the final products are of a high quality and portray exactly what they were supposed to.
If I could have changed anything I would have changed the article to make link more to the poster, and edit the layout slightly to gain a better impact on the audiences. The poster is of a good quality and I wouldn't change much at all, I would have liked to create different posters, experimenting with different tools and effects on Photoshop.
I think our short film meets the short film beginner audience, by this I mean a teenager aged 16-19 or even older who has never watched short films before, or has dabbled in them on the odd occasion.
I would like to think that the film brings the audience more into the world of short films and makes them an avid watcher. It is a high demand for a short film made under difficult circumstances (lack of proper technology that the more experienced short film makers have).
We were getting constant feedback from our target audience by showing them small previews of our film and asking what they thought, and what could be made better, unfortunately we did not make a record of this, mainly because it was all done in the editing period, so any ideas or errors were changed immediately. But this helped us spot out minor errors in the music and the flow of the film making for a better film, as the film was edited to remove the little errors that the target audience noticed.
Digital Technology was the key factor that made all this possible, there is a huge list of different technologies that we used to create our short film and here are just a few:
Sony Vegas movie suite
Acoustica Mixcraft 4,
Adobe Photoshop,
Microsoft word,
HD camera,
Still cameras,0
Windows move maker,
Email,
Mobile phones.
We would film using the HD camera whilst taking still shot with the other camera, after the filming was complete, we would dock the camera on to the PC upload the clips then sort through them all editing them into place on the movie editor programme. I mentioned Mobile Phones and email, they may seem an odd technology but it was vital for us to be able to communicate with each other and arrange times for filming and collect data and information we had gathered on separate tasks, which would seem rather fitting considering the Web 2.0 age is now upon us.
The idea of interaction with technology and media played a major role in the making of our short film, and showed us how big this will be later.
It is also why we have done this Blog, keeping track of our progress through the whole process relating to research we had done to show the development of the actual production and make them interactive with links and music to follow up on.
The amount of technology we used has been a great help, but it has also been a curse, on several occasions batteries ran out or were just dead and we had no access to chargers, delaying filming for days. It was also apparent that we had troubles on the editing software where it would not respond quickly enough or would glitch moving the sound out of sync with the video.
But it also made the whole process easier to do, and less painful, if we did not have this it would have been a lot harder to make final a product of a similar standard of ours.
I have developed many IT skills during this project, mainly musical skills on the Acoustica Mixcraft 4 software, I quickly mastered the basic techniques and began to delve deeper into the more advanced techniques just enough to help me make effective music scores for the film.
Over all I think the Project has been a great success and I am happy with the final products we have created.
On the terms of Genre we went for a thriller/horror approach, it is difficult to define the genre entirely but here is a few links (http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html, http://www.filmsite.org/subgenres.html.) that you may follow to explain the genre's in greater depth and to see whether you agree or not. It is more than likely that our short film is a hybrid of many genres much like the modern short films produced today. We tried to follow the basic conventions of thriller/horror by including the idea of the dark figure with no face, the thought behind this was to explore the viewers fear of the unknown. It is a similar point with clowns, a possible theory behind the phobia of clowns is the fact you can not actually see their proper face, and ties in with the unknown factor that I wanted to get across in the shadow character of our short film.
I also tried to get across the feel of horror and thriller in the music I had produced, I used a range of sounds and effects to create suspense and a sense of uneasiness form the very beginning. The bells and some slight timing variations with the synth sounds I managed to create an abstract sound that creates a feeling of suspense with the tambourine and heart beat drums to add to that effect more .To build the suspense I added choirs wind like noises and hellish screams to send chills down the spine when it came to the climax of the piece, I also added a distinctive Piano tune to portray the sadness and grief normally experienced from horror/ thriller films.
In relation to the 'What makes a good short film ' by the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/introduction/what-makes-a-good-short) Our film has a medium strength script, there isn't much actual taking in our film, it was mainly stage directions and so on, but they are all part of the script. Sections of the film could have been made clearer wit ha slight alteration to the actions and voice over’s used, for example the scene where the Author delete his story, it is not perfectly clear what he is doing. With slight alteration and only adding 20-30 seconds max to the total length would make the story and that scene a lot clearer than it currently is.
I think our story had achieved a good level of originality through the fact that it combines reality and fantasy in a very different light, through an author’s novel we see his creation happening in real life, and even after it has been deleted it still continues using reflections as the /portal/ between the worlds almost. (That last idea is admittedly clichéd).
In terms of acting, our main character is performed by a student who takes performing arts and has appeared in many local productions done by the local drama club, and was very good at acting out the scenes no matter how absurd! Since I was part of the acting as well (playing the role of the Author) I felt I did well for someone who has little experience in acting, I think the fact that me and the actress (Emily) are old friends from primary school all the way through to college put me at ease when acting in front of the camera and provided the natural friendship feeling that was put across at the very start of the film.
When looking back over the film it shows a good flow between each clip, thanks to the use of HD cameras, careful preparation between shots and good continuous lighting. The acting from Emily is of a high quality
The film is short at under 5 minutes keeping it short and sweet is the best approach and I think 5 minutes is a good time to approach that 'philosophy' with.
A strong beginning, is one thing that I find our short film to be lacking, as it is a steady introduction to the characters and not a introduction that would grab your attention instantly, and I think this may damage the films effectiveness in the long run.
We avoided repetition as much as possible, and I think there are not very many repetitions apart form the fast flash back of the recent events, but adds a certain desired effect to the story and does not distract the audience from it, we also avoided the punch line twists by keeping the end simple and effective and offering little hints throughout the film to build up to that final scene.
In relation to new techniques we discovered an interesting technique to create a scratchy like image with a loud distorted noise all by using the trolley without it's tracks, and running it across the tarmac.
When looking at our poster, we copied the style of the 'I’m not there' Poster, as the general composition of the poster fitted our initial sketches as seen on the storyboard sheets posted earlier. We decided that a pure black and white approach would best fit the short film it was advertising, as it is black and white that makes up a novel on the computer screen, or even in the book, no colours other than black and white and creates a good correlation between the two. It also provides the striking contrast to make the image more striking.
The font is a particular favourite of mine and well chosen by Jamie, slightly eroded and damaged just like the story is when it's deleted, and confuses reality with fantasy.
The Tag line again is well chosen as it suggests the main feature of the story without giving it away, it puts the whole idea that the erase key does more than just erase something like a story; it is much more than that. The image of the head with no face, lost in the blackness relates to the actual shadow figure in the short film, it creates a sense of interest into what is behind the blackness covering his face, why is it not there etc. And those questions will make the audience want to watch the film and find out! They will not get exact answers but they will get a story equally compelling. It is a debatable point that the poster does not raise the right questions is unsuccessful, but I feel that having the poster raise a number of questions that makes them watch the short film and even though their questions are not answered completely the poster still does its primary job of pulling in the audience.
For the article we had decided that the images should be placed in a scrapbook/diary arrangement to fit the style of a sneak peak interview that makes up the majority of the article.
The photos were placed in a range of angles and overlapping to let them flow from one to the other revealing little bits of how the film was made, and actual shots from the film acting as little tasters to entice the audience to read the article and watch the film on its release. Thus is the desired effect. We also took the title directly from the poster to link them both together, the faded like background relates to the idea of fading away, like when you erase pencil with a rubber however I feel that the background should have been darker to give better contrast like the poster to help link the two together better.
On a whole the 3 products all work well together as they poster offers a compelling image that entices the audiences to want to watch the film, where as the article promotes the film from a different approach giving a human face on the producers and crew of the film giving it a more friendly appearance, yet still relating it to the short film and trying to make the audience want to watch it, in a subtle way.
In my personal view I find that the poster is stronger than the article as it is more striking visually, and I feel that the article misses that aspect to help boost the promotional purposes it was made for. The film and the poster are tied for the best as I feel that both were executed well and the final products are of a high quality and portray exactly what they were supposed to.
If I could have changed anything I would have changed the article to make link more to the poster, and edit the layout slightly to gain a better impact on the audiences. The poster is of a good quality and I wouldn't change much at all, I would have liked to create different posters, experimenting with different tools and effects on Photoshop.
I think our short film meets the short film beginner audience, by this I mean a teenager aged 16-19 or even older who has never watched short films before, or has dabbled in them on the odd occasion.
I would like to think that the film brings the audience more into the world of short films and makes them an avid watcher. It is a high demand for a short film made under difficult circumstances (lack of proper technology that the more experienced short film makers have).
We were getting constant feedback from our target audience by showing them small previews of our film and asking what they thought, and what could be made better, unfortunately we did not make a record of this, mainly because it was all done in the editing period, so any ideas or errors were changed immediately. But this helped us spot out minor errors in the music and the flow of the film making for a better film, as the film was edited to remove the little errors that the target audience noticed.
Digital Technology was the key factor that made all this possible, there is a huge list of different technologies that we used to create our short film and here are just a few:
Sony Vegas movie suite
Acoustica Mixcraft 4,
Adobe Photoshop,
Microsoft word,
HD camera,
Still cameras,0
Windows move maker,
Email,
Mobile phones.
We would film using the HD camera whilst taking still shot with the other camera, after the filming was complete, we would dock the camera on to the PC upload the clips then sort through them all editing them into place on the movie editor programme. I mentioned Mobile Phones and email, they may seem an odd technology but it was vital for us to be able to communicate with each other and arrange times for filming and collect data and information we had gathered on separate tasks, which would seem rather fitting considering the Web 2.0 age is now upon us.
The idea of interaction with technology and media played a major role in the making of our short film, and showed us how big this will be later.
It is also why we have done this Blog, keeping track of our progress through the whole process relating to research we had done to show the development of the actual production and make them interactive with links and music to follow up on.
The amount of technology we used has been a great help, but it has also been a curse, on several occasions batteries ran out or were just dead and we had no access to chargers, delaying filming for days. It was also apparent that we had troubles on the editing software where it would not respond quickly enough or would glitch moving the sound out of sync with the video.
But it also made the whole process easier to do, and less painful, if we did not have this it would have been a lot harder to make final a product of a similar standard of ours.
I have developed many IT skills during this project, mainly musical skills on the Acoustica Mixcraft 4 software, I quickly mastered the basic techniques and began to delve deeper into the more advanced techniques just enough to help me make effective music scores for the film.
Over all I think the Project has been a great success and I am happy with the final products we have created.
Monday, 15 March 2010
Sunday, 14 March 2010
Onto the music for the film, which was my majortask in amongst the group as well as the producer and actor !
I wanted to get across the feeling of intense fear and uneasyness which I wanted to be put across in the film as well. And after many hours and versions made up i had finally came up with this.
I think the final product was very close to what I wanted to include. uncfortuinatly in the actual production of the short film, it was as prominant as I would have liked. But it did feature in there. I had to create new scores when the film had been edeted completely so i could get an accurate fit with the music and the film, which was again a great success. Unfortuinatly I dont have any of those files available at the time, but will be posted as soon as I get access to them.
I wanted to get across the feeling of intense fear and uneasyness which I wanted to be put across in the film as well. And after many hours and versions made up i had finally came up with this.
I think the final product was very close to what I wanted to include. uncfortuinatly in the actual production of the short film, it was as prominant as I would have liked. But it did feature in there. I had to create new scores when the film had been edeted completely so i could get an accurate fit with the music and the film, which was again a great success. Unfortuinatly I dont have any of those files available at the time, but will be posted as soon as I get access to them.
After looking through many magazines and articles, we had finally decided on a layout and style that we wanted in our magazine.
We also looked at our poster to see what elements we should include in that to tie in all the littel nuggets of information together.
Here is the final product:
The background ties nicely with the name of the film 'Erase' and Scott had madea good decission on the layout of the magazine making the centre a pocket full of photographs and little bits of detail about the short film and it's production.
Onto the Article it's self, Scott was given the task of this as well and did a brilliant job giving it the natural and realistic feel that we wanted for the article, in the interview he put in I think an unfair portayal of my character was a rather funny addition to the article on a more personal note.
Short Films, the new addiction? An audience with the Erase creators.
In the new technological age, people have come to expect things immediately; the world has become a place of speed and abruptness, where all news is old news, as soon as it hits. Therefore it seems fitting that every aspect of this new technological world, should work on the same basis: Short films, a story told in a matter of minutes, containing all the action, comedy, romance, suspense of any major blockbuster, all the while delivering their essential message; the reason for their creation.
In recent years short films have become exponentially more popular, used for a multitude of purposes; to entertain, to advertise, or simply as the opening to that new must-see movie. Awards are no longer given to just the feature-length films from this director or that producer, but to short films, made by ‘average Joes’; the short film industry is quickly becoming a more recognized media.
Short films are becoming so popular that Nick Parks, the famed director of ‘Wallace and Grommet’ has been nominated for an Oscar for best short animated film, an award which he has already won on 4 previous occasions. Such news has encouraged a new generation of short-film makers (otherwise known as ‘Shakers’) to step into the limelight and broadcast their creations worldwide.
One of these groups of ‘shakers’, who have decided to take the brave and, frankly, well-deserved step into the limelight, is a culmination of the brilliant director, producer and stars of the celebrated short film, ‘True Colours’, with the equally brilliant producer of, the short film, ‘Georgina’s Secret’. This genius group of young ‘shakers’ have formulated an idea for a amazing short film, which possesses all the necessary elements to take the short-film world by storm. And we, at ‘Now Film’ magazine, have been given the opportunity to interview, two of these brilliant minds; Co-producers/directors, Scott Pinder and Nick Williams.
NF: ‘So, welcome to Now Film magazine, we’re absolutely thrilled to have you and really looking forward, to hearing about your new project. Can you maybe, tell us a little bit about it, because up to now it’s all been kept quite quiet, and we’re dying to know about it. What made you decide to make this film, how did you come up with it, more importantly who came up with it.’
Scott: (Laughs) ‘Well, we don’t want to reveal too much, we want to leave some surprise for the audience, but I suppose we can tell you a little bit. The majority of us, as I’m sure you’ll know have worked together before, and we had a really good time making ‘True Colours’, so we decided to give it another try, and I’ve known Jamie Kirk for a good few years now and we bumped in to him at an awards night, and he really wanted to do another short-film and we-’
Nick: ‘Cut a long story short we decided to make a new film.’
Scott: ‘Yeh.’ (Laughs)
NF: ‘Ok, but who actually came up with the story?’
Nick: ‘Well, we all added bits and pieces to the story, we threw a few ideas about to start off with, but eventually we managed to settle on this one, I think it was me who came up with the actual idea of the author writing his story and I think it was Scott who came up with the two realities aspect, wasn’t it?’
Scott: ‘Ye I think I came up with the two realities coming together in the end, but in the end we all pretty much put the same amount in as each other really.’
NF: ‘Ok so there’s no one who can take all the glory, you all came up with it together, but for our readers who know nothing about it, can you explain exactly what ‘IT’ is?’
Nick: (Laughs) ‘Well like Scott said, we don’t want to give too much away, but, the gist of the story is, this authors writing a story and what he’s writing is coming true, and it’s all happening to this girl, anyway it’s all meant to be quite chilling and creepy, and I really think we’ve managed to achieve that, especially with the help of Saquib Majid
Scott: ‘Ye, it’s really come together and I reckon it really makes you think and like Nick said Saq has done some really good work, I mean we all had a go, but he’s done the majority of the filming and it’s looking really good, so we’re just hoping it’ll get a good reaction.’
NF: ‘Well I’m sure it will go down great with the public, but one last question before we call it a day, where exactly has your inspiration come from?’
Scott: ‘Hm. Well, there’s loads of things that inspired it to be honest, I mean we’ve taken inspiration from loads of like thriller films, to help with creating the suspense etc. But I reckon that, personally, I took inspiration from the film, ‘Sliding Doors’ and how it looks at two separate realities and I reckon that that’s how I came up with the duel realities aspect.’
NF: ‘Well I’m afraid that that’s all we have time for and we are really looking forward to the film coming out, it’s out May 4th is that right?’
Scott: ‘Ye, that’s right, we hope you like it.’
The new short-film, ‘Erase’, is to be released May 4th and, is more than likely going to be a major hit with short-film fans the world over.
The above is the final article he had come up with, after help from all of us edeting and correcting the odd mistake here and there. Over all a great sucess in the article.
We also looked at our poster to see what elements we should include in that to tie in all the littel nuggets of information together.
Here is the final product:
The background ties nicely with the name of the film 'Erase' and Scott had madea good decission on the layout of the magazine making the centre a pocket full of photographs and little bits of detail about the short film and it's production.Onto the Article it's self, Scott was given the task of this as well and did a brilliant job giving it the natural and realistic feel that we wanted for the article, in the interview he put in I think an unfair portayal of my character was a rather funny addition to the article on a more personal note.
Short Films, the new addiction? An audience with the Erase creators.
In the new technological age, people have come to expect things immediately; the world has become a place of speed and abruptness, where all news is old news, as soon as it hits. Therefore it seems fitting that every aspect of this new technological world, should work on the same basis: Short films, a story told in a matter of minutes, containing all the action, comedy, romance, suspense of any major blockbuster, all the while delivering their essential message; the reason for their creation.
In recent years short films have become exponentially more popular, used for a multitude of purposes; to entertain, to advertise, or simply as the opening to that new must-see movie. Awards are no longer given to just the feature-length films from this director or that producer, but to short films, made by ‘average Joes’; the short film industry is quickly becoming a more recognized media.
Short films are becoming so popular that Nick Parks, the famed director of ‘Wallace and Grommet’ has been nominated for an Oscar for best short animated film, an award which he has already won on 4 previous occasions. Such news has encouraged a new generation of short-film makers (otherwise known as ‘Shakers’) to step into the limelight and broadcast their creations worldwide.
One of these groups of ‘shakers’, who have decided to take the brave and, frankly, well-deserved step into the limelight, is a culmination of the brilliant director, producer and stars of the celebrated short film, ‘True Colours’, with the equally brilliant producer of, the short film, ‘Georgina’s Secret’. This genius group of young ‘shakers’ have formulated an idea for a amazing short film, which possesses all the necessary elements to take the short-film world by storm. And we, at ‘Now Film’ magazine, have been given the opportunity to interview, two of these brilliant minds; Co-producers/directors, Scott Pinder and Nick Williams.
NF: ‘So, welcome to Now Film magazine, we’re absolutely thrilled to have you and really looking forward, to hearing about your new project. Can you maybe, tell us a little bit about it, because up to now it’s all been kept quite quiet, and we’re dying to know about it. What made you decide to make this film, how did you come up with it, more importantly who came up with it.’
Scott: (Laughs) ‘Well, we don’t want to reveal too much, we want to leave some surprise for the audience, but I suppose we can tell you a little bit. The majority of us, as I’m sure you’ll know have worked together before, and we had a really good time making ‘True Colours’, so we decided to give it another try, and I’ve known Jamie Kirk for a good few years now and we bumped in to him at an awards night, and he really wanted to do another short-film and we-’
Nick: ‘Cut a long story short we decided to make a new film.’
Scott: ‘Yeh.’ (Laughs)
NF: ‘Ok, but who actually came up with the story?’
Nick: ‘Well, we all added bits and pieces to the story, we threw a few ideas about to start off with, but eventually we managed to settle on this one, I think it was me who came up with the actual idea of the author writing his story and I think it was Scott who came up with the two realities aspect, wasn’t it?’
Scott: ‘Ye I think I came up with the two realities coming together in the end, but in the end we all pretty much put the same amount in as each other really.’
NF: ‘Ok so there’s no one who can take all the glory, you all came up with it together, but for our readers who know nothing about it, can you explain exactly what ‘IT’ is?’
Nick: (Laughs) ‘Well like Scott said, we don’t want to give too much away, but, the gist of the story is, this authors writing a story and what he’s writing is coming true, and it’s all happening to this girl, anyway it’s all meant to be quite chilling and creepy, and I really think we’ve managed to achieve that, especially with the help of Saquib Majid
Scott: ‘Ye, it’s really come together and I reckon it really makes you think and like Nick said Saq has done some really good work, I mean we all had a go, but he’s done the majority of the filming and it’s looking really good, so we’re just hoping it’ll get a good reaction.’
NF: ‘Well I’m sure it will go down great with the public, but one last question before we call it a day, where exactly has your inspiration come from?’
Scott: ‘Hm. Well, there’s loads of things that inspired it to be honest, I mean we’ve taken inspiration from loads of like thriller films, to help with creating the suspense etc. But I reckon that, personally, I took inspiration from the film, ‘Sliding Doors’ and how it looks at two separate realities and I reckon that that’s how I came up with the duel realities aspect.’
NF: ‘Well I’m afraid that that’s all we have time for and we are really looking forward to the film coming out, it’s out May 4th is that right?’
Scott: ‘Ye, that’s right, we hope you like it.’
The new short-film, ‘Erase’, is to be released May 4th and, is more than likely going to be a major hit with short-film fans the world over.
The above is the final article he had come up with, after help from all of us edeting and correcting the odd mistake here and there. Over all a great sucess in the article.
So, with the poster in mind we looked at many different posters but one cought our attention the most and it was this one :
The gerneal composition of this poster and was very striking, and seemded to fit the genre and title of the film, wit ha few tweaks here and there. Erase being the chosen name for our film, ideas popped up about removing the face of our poster figure, trying to get across the idea of two worlds merging and dissapearing all at once.
there were several other posters that we looked at and here is another that was a very good find.
'The Unborn' poster was a very good insperation for the final scene of our film, and was exxactly what I wanted to acheive as well. So looking at this poster I managed to direct the filming, to base it around this poster and see what we could accomplish and I feel that we accomplished that, without the help of my team it may not have looked so good.
And after hours of edeting and flipping and changing my good friend Jamie had created the finaldesign for our poster with great success,
The gerneal composition of this poster and was very striking, and seemded to fit the genre and title of the film, wit ha few tweaks here and there. Erase being the chosen name for our film, ideas popped up about removing the face of our poster figure, trying to get across the idea of two worlds merging and dissapearing all at once.
there were several other posters that we looked at and here is another that was a very good find.
'The Unborn' poster was a very good insperation for the final scene of our film, and was exxactly what I wanted to acheive as well. So looking at this poster I managed to direct the filming, to base it around this poster and see what we could accomplish and I feel that we accomplished that, without the help of my team it may not have looked so good.
And after hours of edeting and flipping and changing my good friend Jamie had created the finaldesign for our poster with great success,
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