Short Film Research- YouTube

YouTube

When we first started looking at doing a short film, we immediately took to YouTube to research previous a level short films. This was an easy way to gain a knowledge of the previous standard set and also what the majority of the short films were about. This allowed us to gain an idea of what route we wanted to go down. After this I started to look at some professionally made short films made by well known YouTube film makers, this was great as I was able to research further into the artistic style of film that we wanted to produce. Bertie Gilbert was an especially important part of research as his film, let it be provoked a lot of ideas on the ways in which we wanted to structure the films narrative and also the atmosphere that we wanted to create through camera placement and location. Overall YouTube was the best source of information in researching short films as it fully allowed us to access previous films and also access information quickly.

We found let it be on Bertie gilberts YouTube page after watching it, I found Martha’s storyline to be very reminiscent of Sam’s, this was not because of the narrative which is completely different to our own, however throughout the film Martha is dealing with her impending death and the strain of kidding it from her loved ones, very much like Sam hiding his illness from his family and friends. Martha's emotion has allowed Sam’s character to develop as we have began to apply the presentation of her emotion to our own film, through the camera angles, I found that Martha's emotion is emphasised by her close ups and also how the camera seems to put her in a inferior position, the audience feels as though they are looming above her and although her condition is not revealed until the last couple of the film, the audience can sense that there is a foreboding atmosphere lingering around her character which is perfectly presented through all aspects of the film.