completed short film

I am pleased with the outcome of lazy days its a nice slow paced film which fits well with the narrative as it is a slow paced story. I feel the continuity is great it needed to flow and be clean for the piece especially with the telly stalker scenes. The music fits well with the short the blues helps emphasize the slow pace and laziness and also gives it good comedic effect, however i do feel the cuts in the music is too potent and it sticks out. The fades between the telly appearing work well footage in-between would have dragged out the film, the cuts keep it short and sweet. We had problems with the camera and the boom kept getting in shot, so in one scene the camera jumps awkwardly jumps towards the character and looks odd, also the end scene seem a bit drawn out and uninteresting.

I feel the short fits well within the codes and conventions of short film, firstly the film is just under 4 minuets long therefore classing it as a short. Also most of the films we looked at during the research lessons had a moral message to them, so does ours the television stalking the main character symbolizes technology grip on todays society and how to much can be a bad thing. A lot of short films can have a quirky for example 'the post box' is a short i watched at the bfi were a man gets his hand stuck in a post box and makes a fortune, theme i feel 'lazy days' does with the telly and laptop following the main character seem quite a surreal theme. Twice in the short the main character looks directly at the camera at the audience breaking the fourth wall, this is nearly never done in feature length as it gives the fell that the main character knows we are watching. Lastly 'lazy days' has no dialouge it works through facial expressions and actions we couldnt possibly make a feature lenght out of it the film would be very boring, its the perfect script for a short.

I feel i had a big hand in the filming i was there everyday and i took on a lot of the shooting during those days. as the filming was at my house it was very easy also the actor lives with me as well so filming was a breeze, i add my contribution by directing the actor, inputting how i feel shots should be framed and working out how to make the jump cuts work e.g. bus stop scene. In the day in between the two days of filming i set up the camera in the front room and filmed day time television every 30 minuets for 20 seconds just to make sure we had enough footage for the time lapse scene. I feel we all put in a fair amount of editing during i did alot of log and capture, i laid down the genral story line giving our short structre, i edited it to an 'unfinshed' version, then we did alot of cutting down with all the shots making them shortter, i did alot of playing about with the piece giving it the right pace, colour and tone. Lastly pre-production for lazy days was a bit rushed as our idea tramps fell through we had to quickly make a new idea. I put alot of effort into 'tramps' compared to 'lazy days' but i still put work alot of work in not so much with the idea but the visual style, camera and paperwork you can see my contrabution on my group blog.