For my Arts Leadership Project I am going to produce a short film which will be screened at the Borderlines Film Festival in 2014. I will produce the film within a group as part of the BFI Film Academy with the Rural Media Company, in order to develop and demonstrate our skills as young filmmakers. We are aiming for the film to be approximately 2 minutes in length.
What stages will you need to complete?
There are a number of stages we will need to go through in order to produce our short film:
- Allocating roles within the group
- Brainstorming initial ideas
- Writing a script
- Planning eg. storyboards, shot lists
- Finding actors, locations and props
- Shooting the film
- Editing
I will be working on the project in a group consisting of myself and 5 other participants from the BFI Film Academy, and we will all have our own main roles within the project, as well as working together on all aspects of producing the short film. The main audience for the project will be those watching the short film when it is screened at the Borderlines Film Festival, which will be a mixed audience.
What is your main role in the project? What roles will the other group members have?
My main role within the project is going to be as the cinematographer, which means I will be primarily responsible for shooting the film. I will need to plan shots by creating a shot list and storyboard with the help of the other members of my group, in order to be organised and to make sure that I get all of the footage needed and do not miss anything important out. The other roles necessary to produce a short film will be allocated to the other members of the group, such as producer, director, writer, sound and editing.
When will your project take place?
The timescale we are working to is approximately 2 months, as producing even a short film is a long process, and we hope to screen our short film at the Borderlines Film Festival on the 5th March 2014. Our scheduled dates for shooting and editing the short film are the 17th, 18th and 19th of February 2014, but we hope to arrange additional dates in order to complete our project to the highest standard possible. Therefore, our planning stages for the film will need to be completed before the middle of February 2014, and we hope to have a basic concept and idea for our film by mid-January in order to pitch our idea at the BFI Film Academy meeting on the 15th January 2014.
What resources, equipment and support will you need?
In order to complete our project, we will need the participation of all members of our group, as everybody will be fulfilling specific roles, as well as support from our mentors Nathan Williams and Adrian Lambert. We will need a range of equipment in order to produce our short film, such as a camera, tripod, boom pole, headphones, computer and editing software. We will also need to source locations in which to shoot our short film, and actors. Specifically to my role as cinematographer, I will need to source the camera, tripod and anything additional required such as batteries and memory cards/tapes. I will either use my own Canon 600D and tripod, or borrow equipment from the Rural Media Company.
In order to review my progress, I am going to keep updating this blog whenever we have a planning meeting or complete any stages of the project. This will help to track my progress and review our work as we go along in order to make sure that we are on schedule. It will also help us to notice and solve any problems that we encounter. I will also keep evidence of all of the planning we complete towards our short film, such as spider diagrams for brainstorming ideas, storyboards and shot lists.
I will be able to gather feedback about our project from the audience members who come to see the screening of our short film at the Borderlines Film Festival. I may produce a short questionnaire in order to gain people's opinions on our film. After this, I will be able to review my own progress and reflect on the skills I have learnt, especially in a leadership role.
What will you do if things go wrong?
We aim to spend a substantial amount of time planning our project in detail, so hopefully there will be minimal problems. However, not everything always goes to plan, therefore we will need to be ready to deal with any setbacks during our project. We will need to make sure that we complete the majority of the filming early and a long time before the screening date, so that if we realise that we have missed some shots or that there has been a problem with the footage, we will have time to reshoot if necessary. We will also need a contingency plan because there may be unforeseen problems such as weather and illness. This is why, if possible, we should arrange as many dates as possible for shooting and editing our film.
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