Today we had got the brief for the new assessment, and it was to create a one minute film. We had no other restrictions, and this was both a blessing and a curse. At first thought I thought it would be a lot easier, in my naivety I considered one minutes to be an incredibly short space of time and thought it would be a lot easier than it turned out to be. I did not however, consider how much has got to go on for it to have any kind of narrative structure. I also heard a few people making their pitch, and the people that had been told they couldn't do it, I tried to figure out why that had happened and came up with a few reasons; they hadn't planned and therefore hadn't thought of the feasibility, and were being too ambitious.
I sort of felt like I had been thrown in at the deep end, and was struggling to think of any ideas that I felt confident enough to pitch and back up why I wanted to do them. So I decided to look through all of my inspirations and what I loved about the things I loved to watch, be that in film or television. My first thought was one of my favorite shows, American Horror Story and more specifically, the title sequences. The title sequences have always been my favorite part of the show because every new season there is a new one as it is set in a different time with different protagonists, and as the episodes pan out and you watch the sequence again you can see little clues that add up to solve the main enigmas of the programme. I have also always loved the sinister edge to them, and so I decided to try to recreate something with this guiding me as my main influence.
Link to the Series One Title Sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c3VVJb562Y
The next step is to begin to create a shot list, make props and decide what it is going to look like. And also conduct a camera tutorial.
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