Previous short films I have made and how it helped for future films.

Backstory:
During a half term in October (2016) I met with Sam Hunter and Elliott Hall to make a short film. Me and Sam are keen "film makers" and we try and get out to make funny skits/films as much as possible.

Plot:
This short film puts the audience in the seat of a killer, who murdered a teenager. He ends up being haunted by the person he killed until he could not take it any more and took his own life.

Experience/things I learned from making this:
First of all music makes the film. Before making this I never looked too much in the music I used to make my short films, I kinda just went for whatever I could find the quickest. By far the music was the biggest element in this short film, it really complements the dark,empty vibes which are being shown throughout the whole film.

Another thing I learned to do is to not green screen when possible. Green screening when there isn't proper lighting doesn't look very  nice as there will be areas around the screen which have green because its not properly lit. Instead we took the BBC news page and "inspect element" the main story line to suit our own story. After that we took a screen shot then changed the photo on the story to a real photo of Sam Hunter to add a more realistic effect. This was way better than green screening the monitor as we didn't loose any quality, and it was a lot easier as we all have a very good knowledge of Photoshop.

One more thing which I learned was how to use text efficiently in films. Elliott Hall made me use Helvetica Thin as the font and I think it worked perfectly. Not only does it capture the dark lifelessness of the short film but it just works perfectly with what we wanted the credits to look like in our mind.

Overall getting outside and getting experience making films has overall made me better at filmography and directing. It's much better learning from mistakes and just clips/shots that don't look right so in future you have that reference of what works and what doesn't.