Holly's blog

 

  This would be the dress worn by the main character when she puts on her grandmothers ring and in the other dimension. I think it perfectly fits being gothic and dark but still majestic and fitting of the ballet feel. 

 

  I would like to cut my film at the point of fading to white, however I have included two extra scenes just encase my final cut does not meet the time requirements. 

  This is a mind map I created jotting down all my different thoughts.

  My teacher gave me this book, as I expressed an interest in doing something mystical. I found this book a great inspiration for my short film. I was really drawn in by the feel of fairy tales, often mixed with something a little grim. I think the idea of childhood stories and fairy tales can easily be made very chilling and eerie. I like the simplistic and also visually stimulating imagery which goes along with stories. I am a big fan of a lot of Tim Burtons films and would love to include some of his influence in my piece as his work too is often based of off a enchanted fairy tale sway. I like his style of animation and could possibly include this in my own piece. This story called 'The red shoes' found in this book was particularly interesting to me as I am a fan on ballet. In my short film I want to include a ballet influence, as I feel ballet is very graceful and majestic and this fits well with the feel of enchanted fantasy stories as well as fairy tales.  ...

 According to Bulmer and Katz film is for either entertainment and escapism or for information and education. While I do believe that is important to use cinema's immense influential platform to raise awareness of important issues or educate people on historic events of tragedies as to learn from our mistakes, I think is is more for the everyman to use to escape from their busy lives. I think it is very important for cinema to entertain and allow the viewer to escape, more so than to educate the viewer. Many people across the world live in lots of different situations, some times those situations can be terrible and it's hard for those people to get out of these situations and cinema allows them to escape for an hour or two to live a different life where they can be anyone anywhere and I think that's more valuable than guilt tripping the general public. I would to like to create my short film to entertain people. I would like to maybe include a hidden message as this is not...

What is the point of them? Short films are made for the same reason as feature films. To entertain people and help them escape their everyday lives. Or to inform and educate people on important matters. This is what Bulmer and Katz suggest. Then Stewart hall says it's up to the audience how much of the education they take on and whether they agree with the message or not.  Who makes? Who is in them? Short films are often student made and have their peers or people they know in them. Some short films hold auditions for cast as a less familiar person maybe easier to feel superior to on set, giving the creator full authority. Short films are not always made by students but it's more likely as they do not have the budget or experience for feature length. How and where are they exhibited? They are often shown at film festival where lots are shown and a winner is then voted after all films have been show cased. There also countless uploaded to Youtube everyday where t...