Research for new film

I researched this film because of the angles and different techniques used throughout it. I like the simple idea of biking throughout a town, changing scenery and composition so that the viewer can see the journey. I also like how the girl puts a camera towards her eye then how it shoots through a point of view shot like your looking through the viewfinder. I am going to film a scene where a rabbit is riding a bike through some streets/forest then the rabbit gets off and hops back into the forest. I want this film to look very surreal and aesthetically pleasing by using lighting and bright colours.

The Rabbit - Edited - Final

This is the edited and Final outcome of my video footage . I decided to speed the movie up and repeat scenes to give the effect of tripping . I like this film and I think the lighting and composition of some of the shots are very well constructed . I am running the drug theme throughout of my project, involving the rabbit as a alterego which tempts you to do bad things or by portraying the rabbit as the evil within us . I also like the driving scenes within this film because it acts like a significant flashback , (The journey of buiring the body) .

Original -The Rabbit

This is original video of the rabbit . I loved shooting this video because of the lighting . This was basically a practice to see whether the lighting would be succesfull or not .

Poster - The Rabbit

This is my film poster from my film 'The Rabbit' . i took this still whilst filimg , I wanted to capture the rabbit in the background to give the image a sense of errieness . The colours in this picture are also succesful because of the contrast between the pink and the greens .

Storyboard - The Rabbit

Here is my storyboard from my latest film 'The Rabbit' . I thought of the location when i was driving past some woods and my lights shined through the trees . I then tested this with the fisheye and a shioulette in the light. The lighting and composition in this film makes it work really well .

The Trip - short video

Here is my video . The trip is about a group of friends which meet up in a flat.They smoke cannabis and hallucinate, they all change into animals including the camera man. This video was meant to be a short silent movie however , i found some music which matched the theme perfectly so i changed it into a music video .

Testing focus/lighting with fisheye lens.

Here i have checked the lighting and focus setting on the cannon before making my film I did this so I knew what the lighting had to be like and how the focus affected the fish eye effect . I used the manual focus all the way through the film to show the drug effects on the characters .

The Trip - Poster

Here are my film posters which i made for my short film 'The Trip' .I think the fish eye lens is very effective and create a brillaint p.o.v shot .

story boards

Here is my storyboard for my first short video ,'The Trip' . I have shot this in fisheye to create the effect that this thoughts and vision has been messed with to show that his vision is inpaired.

Independant film posters research

Here are 12 independant film posters , I have researched these to get a geberal idea of layout and style . I like these posters because the images onh the posters clearly portray what type of film it is . You can tell this by the use of colour and typography which is on the poster .

Connected - Short film

Set in the distant future, Connected is a story about survival and greed with a post apocalyptic wasteland as its backdrop. Survivors of an unknown disaster shuffle through a desolate landscape, as it quickly becomes clear that not everybody has the strength to survive.

About the film

Shot in deserted Faxe Kalkbrud, Denmark, and directed by Jens Raunkjær Christensen and Jonas Drotner Mouritsen, Connected is a unique short film, a sci-fi western with a tiny budget, but huge ambitions. A relatively small, but very enthusiastic and talented crew helped bring this bleak vision of the future to the screen. The film is produced with support from The Film Workshop / The Danish Film Institute

I love the look of the film, which makes the most of what I assume to be a fairly low budget. It looks like an old strip from Heavy Metal come to life. You won’t see faces or hear dialogue, but a great set of costume designs and a solid trio of physical performances provide all the character you’ll need. I want to know more about the science and systems behind what is happening here, but you don’t really need that info. That I’m curious about it at all suggests that the film is working.

My only qualm here is the music. The western theme would make more sense in a story where that sort of music might be heard at all. Here, rather than referring to anything about the world or the people in it, the tune basically says, “hey, we’d like this to be a western!” That’s not a huge deal, but it was a bit distracting.

Short film - Still Life

This great short film has left me wanting more. I would love to see Rod Serling introduce this film and in turn learn a bit more about the main character and how he feels about his experiences in that small town. This movie is built around an interesting concept which is delivered very effectively as a psychological thriller. The idea of a sparsely populated small town works very well as the setting here and the winter season only adds to the setting and tone of the movie.

I am left to wonder where the lead character comes from and the series of events that lead him to this small town. As stated earlier I would love to see this as a longer feature to get some of these questions answered. I will definitely be keeping an eye out for future BrookStreet productions.