Synopsis 5

Luke is standing at his slightly beaten locker, he slowly opens the door, revealing band posters and folders, he looks at his favourite poster, then Alice walks up to the locker next to him. He sees her out of the corner of his eye, she opens her locker, slowly revealing similar band posters, a smile smile appears on Luke’s face, as he scrutinizes her properly now. Her hair covers most of her face, but through the gaps in her hair, he notices small things, bright eyes, small nose, nice smile. Then quickly Alice shuts her locker and moves away. Luke...

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Synopsis Evaluation

-Explain the: · world· character· problem The world for my short has been set in the Sixth Form college area of a secondary school based in Banstead, a mainly middle class area. The main protagonist in my story is called Luke, and he is 17 years of age, starting his second year in the Sixth Form. He is part of the metalhead culture, with long hair, dark t-shirts and jeans as his constant form of dress. His problem is the bullying and abuse his culture and its respective sub-cultures receive. -Does the story encompass a...

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Synopsis 4

Luke is standing at his slightly beaten locker, he slowly opens the door, revealing band posters and folders, he looks at his favourite poster, then Alice walks up to the locker next to him. He sees her out of the corner of his eye, she opens her locker, slowly revealing similar band posters, a smile smile appears on Luke’s face, as he scrutinizes her properly now. Her hair covers most of her face, but through the gaps in her hair, he notices small things, bright eyes, small nose, nice smile. Then quickly Alice shuts her locker and moves away. Luke...

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Synopsis Draft 3 + Discussion Notes

Synopsis 3 Luke is standing at his slightly beaten locker, he slowly opens the door, revealing band posters and folders, he looks at his favourite poster, then Alice walks up to the locker next to him. He sees her out of the corner of his eye, she opens her locker, slowly revealing similar band posters, a smile smile appears on Luke’s face, as he scrutinizes her properly now. Her hair covers most of her face, but through the gaps in her hair, he notices small things, bright eyes, small nose, nice smile. Then quickly Alice shuts her locker...

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Comparitive Analysis of 5 Short Texts

Many short films by directors such as; Brian Percival, Alicia Duffy, Simon Ellis, Tom Harper and Jane Linfoot all have common traits between their shorts. These being the themes and issues that run throughout them. Take for example; ‘The Most Beautiful Man in the World’. One of the main themes and issues that run through the whole of the short is the sexualisation of young children; this shows to us the viewer the representations involved are sexuality and age mainly. Alicia Duffy shows this to us in the opening scene of her short through...

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Synopsis Draft 2 and Discussion Notes

Luke is sitting at his worn, scribbled upon desk, twiddling his pen between his fingers, watching the clock run down the minutes. As the bell rings, he picks up his stuff and quickly shuffles out of the room on his own, leaving the rest of the class to chat and casually stroll out. Luke is staring blandly at the bright computer screen, while lifelessly tapping away at the keyboard, doing his work, when he hears insults yelled through the tranquil room. He turns to see Alice, a quiet, introvert metalhead, being verbally attacked by a group of...

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Synopsis Draft 1 and Discussion Notes

The Short opens in a classroom at the end of a school day, with the main ‘metalhead’ character sitting as his desk, twiddling his pen, watching the clock run down the minutes. Then as the bell rings he picks up his stuff and quickly shuffles out of the room on his own, leaving the rest of the class to chat and casually walk out. It then cuts to a different scene of a sixth form common room, where the main character is sat at a computer with headphones over his ears doing his work. Then his isolation is shown by him being alone at a computer,...

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Short Film context - Part 6

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Short Film Context - Part 3

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Short Film Context - Part 8

The Short Film Context Part 8 Distribution and Exhibition I think that the difference between shorts making money conventional and those that don’t is diminutive for a good reason. That being I believe that the market for people buying shorts is incredibly small, for one thing most of the time shorts are viewed by a very niche market anyway at film festivals or independent cinemas but most people in the industry know shorts as a breakthrough piece it wasn’t made to make money itself, it was created to open the door to make another piece that...

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Short Film Context - Part 7

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Short Film Context - Part 5

The short film context part 5 Online Screening Video Blog post format Online screening is a large part of a shorts life because yet again it’s another audience for them to tap in to. It’s incredibly useful for them to gain some free or relatively cheap exposure. For example most sites that screen shorts online such as BBC, Film4, Virgin Media, FutureShorts and Lovefilm to say a few, all stream their films and they tend to cater to lots of different needs. They have multiple genres such as; drama, animation, documentary, comedy, thriller and...

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Short Film Context - Part 4

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Short Film Context - Part 2

The Short Film Context – Part 2 Funding and Support The UKFC was a non-departmental body run outside the government and mainly by public sectors. It was set up in 2000 by the Labour government to promote the UK film industry. To support short filmmakers and short filmmaking, it had three direct funding opportunities that people could apply for them being: Development Fund – To broaden the quality, range and ambition of film projects being developed in the UK. It had 12 million in lottery funding in which to help filmmakers of all experience...

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