Our award winning movie- Cash for coffee!

For this tutorial our task was to make a short film. Over coming diversity was the theme given to us and we had to come up with a story line incorperating this into our movie. I will give you a quick we run down on our film incase some of you could not understand  or you had trouble trying to watch it. It is about Marry-anne (beautifully acted by Georgie after alot of convincing that she was the one for the role) loosing her job. Its s chilly winters moring and poor Mary-anne is desperate for a warm drink from the coffee shop but unfortuantly has no money at all due to the loss of her job. Instead of Mary-anne becoming upset, depressed and giving up on life she uses her iniative and decides to bask for money by using her skill of juggling. She ends up gathering many coins and notes which she then heads off to buy her well deserved coffee.

You all may look at this short film and think man that would be easy to make! however that is not the case. There are many steps and processes involved in making a short film which i have discovered and now have a brief idea about. Who ever new that there could be so many diferent positions and angles and zooms you can do when filming. There is the wide shot, full shot, the extreme close up shot, the close up, the head and shoulders shot, the medium shot, the medium-long shot, the long shot, the extra long shot, the two shot and over the shoulder shot. So who ever thought that there would be that many shots! i certainly didnt.
Before you even begin shooting a film, you need to make a thing called a storey board. This is when you plan out each camera shoot you are going to film by drawing sketches in boxes which are called frames of what is going to be in the shoot. Where it will be, whos in the shot, how close up the camera will be, what the people will be saying etc. Here is a link explaining the process of making a story board http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65_3bq_0eSY