Equipment for Filming

During my lesson I wrote a a treatment of my short film and describes all the key areas of it such as the purpose, actors, filming locations etc. I also recieced my filming equipment and will begin filming over the summer holidays.

See Ya Soon, *Beckford23*

Short Film Genre: Drama

During my lesson the class had a discussion about which genre are we going to work on. The choices were Comedy of Drama, however based on my concept of the short film about Basketball, I feel that the genre Drama will best suite it. The reason why I chose Drama was because the conventions that Drama has will relate to the story of the short film. In addition, making it a Drama will enhance the quality of the film as the story will correspond to the theme of the genre. Whereas Comedy will sidetrack the message of the story as well as the concept of the film not providing the nessesary plot of a Comedy film.

I will now formulate a short film on Basketball and produce a good short film on Basketball which will convey all the themes and conventions of a drama.

See Ya Soon, *Beckford23*

Editing Stage 2

During my lesson I will be focusing on the final edits as well as placing the chosen music to play in my horror clip. By adding this soundtrack it will enhance the clip by providing more suspense as well as helping to tell the story.

Soundtrack

During my lesson I focused on adding a soundtrack that would add to the effect of the clip as well as convey the type of genre the clip represents. I'm still going through the stages of picking the right moments of when to play the soundtrack in the clip and when to remove it. The next stage I need to focus on is eliminating some of the footage sound as it tends to distort the quality of the overall sound. After I can then insert the chosen soundtrack which will give the clip a much richer sound in quality and purpose of what genre the clip represents.

See Ya Soon, *Beckford23*

Editing

During my lesson I erased the certain parts of the clip that was prolonged due to filming and focused on the main parts of the clip that conveyed what was going on in the scene. I also managed to add effects to the clip such as *ghosting* which gives the illusion of the persons sight being dizzy. I also included the title of the clip in the beginning which is called *Watched* and ended the clip with credits to show the roles that was needed to put the clip together such as Soundtrack Editor, Filming Crew and the actor.

I will continue to edit the horror clip until it is at a good level of conveying that is happening in chronological order. Once that is complete, I can then work on the sound that will be used to intensify the scenes within the clip.

See Ya Soon, *Beckford 23*