How does this piece conform to short film codes and conventions; think both in terms of technique?

Our film conforms to the general codes and conventions of short films. It is really short, it’s under 2 minutes yet it doesn’t feel unfinished when you watch it and the plot is strong enough to be that short. As the majority of short films have a low budget, so does ours.  We didn’t have to buy anything for the film and any props/clothes we used were our own. The film didn’t cost anything to make as we just filmed in a park and we used our own props and the schools facilities for the rest of it. We only have two characters in our film as well, a boy and a girl, but you never see the boy properly, just the back of his head so it is basically like there is only one character in the film. The film isn’t really genre specific, it could be a thriller but the majority of the film is quite happy and it is filmed in quite a chatty way so it can’t really be designed as one specific genre.

Editing Process

Our editing has gone really well and has mostly gone to plan. We have kept the script the same and the order of what has been shown the same as we had it in the storyboard. We had to change the last shot, which was supposed to be a layered shot because we weren't sure if it would work. We changed it to Rochelle, as the boyfriend, running away from the scene of the crime, I think it looks more effective than the layered shot as the audience don't see the dead body so it leaves a lot to the imagination. 
     We have completely finished all of the editing and all we have to do now is just work on the effects. We've done a few things to the footage already, some of our shots were too bright so we had to make them darker. This was really time consuming because you can't just highlight all the shots you want to change, you have to do them indvidually. We want to add some effects to the cutaways so people can differentiate them from the rest of the footage.

I Hate Boys!

Filming Process

Our filming hasn't really gone to plan. Before half term we had everything planned out and we had all our work done in advance. Our first day filming went well and we got all the shots we wanted and we had 16 minutes of footage for a 30 second clip. We were supposed to be filming the next day as well but our actress wasn't available that day so we decided to do it on the next day evening which was the Sunday before we came back to school. By the time we actually got to film it was too late and dark and we couldn't see on the camera. We had to get the camera out to film again but they were none available on the first week so we had to get one out for yesterday, Wednesday 10th November. The camera we wanted wasn't available so we had to use a smaller camera instead.

 On the actual day of our filming we had to change a few things around because of technical issues. Our actress was supposed to be reading the script into the camera but we couldn't get any of the mics to work and we didn't have time to be trying to fix it because it would start to get too dark to film again. We decided that we would go back to Rochelle's house afterwards and get the mics to work and we would record the script as a voiceover. Apart from that we got all the right shots and we shot lots of the same footage but from different angles.

 When we got back to Rochelle's house we managed to get the boom mic working and recorded the voiceover without any problems.