Research: I am going to talk about what is my short film is going about, my influences, the funding for it, budget that is expected to get and a guide to making a very good short film.
My short film is going to be about where a person wakes up all of a sudden from a stab wound to his chest in an unknown place but he is bleeding out where he tries to get up and get help but he can not do this. A couple of people see him dying on the floor and as they decide to help him, the victim passes out again.
The idea that I have for this short film that it is influenced by a American film called What Lies Beneath that was released back in 2000 which consists of the elements of a thriller with horror but I got my ideas from this film as I am making a thriller short film.
With What Lies Beneath, it had flashbacks to show what happened in the past between the two main characters in the film and also violence and horror with it as well but my short film's genre is thriller so it will contain elements of flashbacks and suspense for a certain audience that are going to be interested in my film.
What Lies Beneath (2000)
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Reviews: 681 user | 183 critic | 35 from Metacritic.com
The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.
Director:
Robert ZemeckisAnother influence that it has on me to come up with this idea for this short film is a Guardian article where it talks about a 16 year old boy in East London being stabbed to death after an incident happened in a local social club. This does tie in with my short film that I want to make because the main character does get stabbed in the beginning of the film but does not die at all as he survives.
Boy of 16 stabbed to death after east London birthday party
Police, who are believed to have notified the boy’s next of kin, are appealing for information on the incident, which took place in a Woodford park
A 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in an east London park, the first murder of a teenager in the capital this year. The youth had been celebrating a girl’s 16th birthday on Saturday with about 100 other young people at a social club on the Ashton playing fields in Woodford.
After leaving the party alone, he is said to have got into an argument with four male youths outside the building, before one stabbed him. The youths then ran off towards Chigwell Road. While guests at the party tried to save him before police and paramedics arrived at 9.40pm, he died just over an hour later at Whipps Cross hospital.
The victim has not been formally identified, but was named locally as Charlie Kutuyampo. Police this afternoon recovered two knives from near the scene, each around 5in long, and they were taken away by forensics officers. A postmortem examination will take place on Monday. No arrests have been made.
DCI Ken Hughes, from the homicide and major crime unit, who is leading the investigation, said: “There were around 100 young people at this party and we are appealing for anyone with information or any witnesses to come forward as soon as possible. The victim’s family are naturally devastated and in shock by what has happened and we need the help of those at the party that night to progress our investigation.”
As grieving friends laid flowers at the spot and gathered to remember him, it was reported that Kutuyampo attended or had recently left King Solomon high school on Forest Road in Ilford. A former pupil there, Jodeci Joseph, who was a few years older, told Sky News: “I built up quite a good relationship with him, like when I would see him, I would always say, ‘Hello, how are you?’ See how he is, always catch up with him, just walking around with him.
“He was a very nice boy, very good intentions, very, very good intentions. He was very extroverted, very loud, but that is normal for a child to be quite loud. Very loud, very energetic, a lot of energy, very happy as well. He was just a very fun guy to be around.”
In 2015, 19 teenagers were murdered in London, of whom 15 were stabbed to death, a third more than in the previous year. Last year’s increase followed several years in which knife crime had been falling in the capital. Justice ministry statistics released last month showed that the number of offenders punished for carrying a knife rose by 7% in the last year as police and the courts take a tougher approach, especially to teenage offenders.
There were four fatal stabbings of teenagers in London during January 2015. The first was Jeremie Malenge, 17, who was stabbed multiple times on Homerton High Street on 6 January 2015 by three teenage boys, since jailed for his murder. Two days later, Bilal Mirza, 17, who planned to study computing at university, died after being stabbed in the thigh in Queen’s Park less than two miles from his home.
Isaiah Ekpaloba, 18, a talented rapper and actor from Hackney, was fatally stabbed on 9 January, and Shaquan Sammy-Plummer, 17, from Finsbury Park, an A-level student who had offers from five universities, was stabbed in Enfield on 30 January.
Alan Cartwright, aged 15, was the youngest teenager to die in 2015 from stab wounds. He was killed while cycling on Caledonian Road, Islington, north London, on 27 February. Joshua Williams, 18, who stabbed him while trying to steal his bicycle, was jailed for life in September.
Budget
But the production budget of What Lies Beneath is big than my short film that is going to be made because it had profess use of equipment that was bring used by people as well as the actors and actresses who are also involved with film but it was made to make it look good for the audience that were interested to watch this in the cinema which the production budget did cost around $100 million dollars.
With my short film that is going to make, there is a low budget between £60 to £100 because although it is professional with the use of the cameras and different equipment that are also to make my short film look good but the equipment that I am going to use is being supplied by the college, so I will not need pay for anything.
Funding: The ways that I could get funded by one organization that can help the teenager's dream to make a short film possible.
Although I am aiming to have my short film to be a low budget, I will still need to funded by the film organization that will help me to make my film possible to make because if I do you not funded at all, then I would impossible to make your film. The organization that is possible to get funded is by Kick-starter as they help young people get the resources to make the creative ideas that the young people have come up with possible.
Film regulation/certification: When I about to distribute my short film
The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) is a independent, non-governmental organization that was founded in 1912 by the film industry that is responsible for the national classification of the film or video across the Untied Kingdom. The rating that the organization can give is U, PG, 12A, 15, and an 18 but this is depending on the content as if a film is too inappropriate, then they will ban the film from being seen in the cinemas.
Films for theatrical release are normally classified by at least two Examiners using the published Guidelines. In most cases the decision is ratified by a Senior Examiner, but if the Examiners are in any doubt or fail to agree, or if important policy issues are involved, the work may be seen by other members of the Board up to, and including, the Director and Presidential team.
Examiners look at issues such as discrimination, drugs, horror, imitable behaviour, language, nudity, sex, sexual violence, theme and violence when making decisions. They also consider context, the tone and impact of a work (eg how it makes the audience feel) and even the release format (for example, as DVDs are watched in the home, there is a higher risk of underage viewing).
Online platforms for distribution and short film festival entry
The online platforms that I am going to distribute my short film are YouTube, Netflix etc as other people can see it at anytime given but also I am going to put in my entry for my short film to seen at a festival where my target audience and business people who may want to show this to other countries by promoting it and showing it to them.
Raindance is officially recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences USA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the British Independent Film Awards.
This is a good example of a film festival called Raindance Film Festival where it is taking place in Central London at Piccadilly Circus between the dates on 21th September to 2nd October 2016 where they show up to over 150 feature and short films.
Guidance for writing a successful short film
When writing a good short film, it is meant to have a very interesting idea for it because if you came up with a idea that is potentially boring then you may lose interest from the target audience and not bother at all watching at all. So if you are coming up with a idea for a short film that you could look at different short films on YouTube to get overview of what ideas that other people came up with but you are finding it hard to come up with a idea, then you could get inspiration of what you have gone through in the past or reading different stories in the internet or newspaper to get a idea for your short film.
But the production budget of What Lies Beneath is big than my short film that is going to be made because it had profess use of equipment that was bring used by people as well as the actors and actresses who are also involved with film but it was made to make it look good for the audience that were interested to watch this in the cinema which the production budget did cost around $100 million dollars.
Box Office
Budget:
$100,000,000 (estimated)With my short film that is going to make, there is a low budget between £60 to £100 because although it is professional with the use of the cameras and different equipment that are also to make my short film look good but the equipment that I am going to use is being supplied by the college, so I will not need pay for anything.
Funding: The ways that I could get funded by one organization that can help the teenager's dream to make a short film possible.
Although I am aiming to have my short film to be a low budget, I will still need to funded by the film organization that will help me to make my film possible to make because if I do you not funded at all, then I would impossible to make your film. The organization that is possible to get funded is by Kick-starter as they help young people get the resources to make the creative ideas that the young people have come up with possible.
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The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) is a independent, non-governmental organization that was founded in 1912 by the film industry that is responsible for the national classification of the film or video across the Untied Kingdom. The rating that the organization can give is U, PG, 12A, 15, and an 18 but this is depending on the content as if a film is too inappropriate, then they will ban the film from being seen in the cinemas.
What is classification
Films for theatrical release are normally classified by at least two Examiners using the published Guidelines. In most cases the decision is ratified by a Senior Examiner, but if the Examiners are in any doubt or fail to agree, or if important policy issues are involved, the work may be seen by other members of the Board up to, and including, the Director and Presidential team.
Examiners look at issues such as discrimination, drugs, horror, imitable behaviour, language, nudity, sex, sexual violence, theme and violence when making decisions. They also consider context, the tone and impact of a work (eg how it makes the audience feel) and even the release format (for example, as DVDs are watched in the home, there is a higher risk of underage viewing).
The online platforms that I am going to distribute my short film are YouTube, Netflix etc as other people can see it at anytime given but also I am going to put in my entry for my short film to seen at a festival where my target audience and business people who may want to show this to other countries by promoting it and showing it to them.
Raindance Film Festival
Discover. Be Discovered.
Raindance showcases features, shorts and music videos by filmmakers from the UK and around the world celebrating and supporting independent, new and alternative filmmakers not just during our 12 day festival but throughout the year.Raindance is officially recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences USA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the British Independent Film Awards.
This is a good example of a film festival called Raindance Film Festival where it is taking place in Central London at Piccadilly Circus between the dates on 21th September to 2nd October 2016 where they show up to over 150 feature and short films.
Guidance for writing a successful short film
When writing a good short film, it is meant to have a very interesting idea for it because if you came up with a idea that is potentially boring then you may lose interest from the target audience and not bother at all watching at all. So if you are coming up with a idea for a short film that you could look at different short films on YouTube to get overview of what ideas that other people came up with but you are finding it hard to come up with a idea, then you could get inspiration of what you have gone through in the past or reading different stories in the internet or newspaper to get a idea for your short film.
What Makes a Good Short?
There are no hard-and-fast rules as to what makes a good short film but here are a few tips that might help.- An Exciting & Original Idea
- A Strong Script
- Good Acting
- High Production Values
- Make It Short
- Strong Beginning
- Avoid Repetition & Punchline Twists
- Exciting New Techniques & Style
- Other Resources
- Related Guides
- Help us improve the Filmmaking Guide
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