Monday, 26 September 2011
Lou Lou Lives Here
This is the Short film Lou-Lou Lives here that we watched in our Media class from the DVD 'Digital Shorts'
Friday, 23 September 2011
Short Films
When me and the other person in my group were first trying to decide what it was we wanted to do for our short film we came to the decision that we would do social realism. We had recently watched a few short films that were also social realism and so that is where our inspiration came from. We liked the idea that we could concentrate on issues surrounding different peoples lives, as that is what we saw when watching the short films in class.
This DVD is called 'Digital Shorts' and it was made by the UK Film Council and the British Film Institute and was funded by the National Lottery. There are 8 shorts on this DVD:
-The First Time It Hits- Written and directed by Jason Budge
-Hard Labour- Directed by Oliver Krimpas and written by Lucy Floyd
-Job Street- Written and directed by Mathew Santiago Whitecross
-Stripes- Written and directed by Sean Spencer
-Lou-Lou Lives Here- Written and directed by Hazel Grian
-Unreal City- Peter Addington-Animator
-Leila- Directed by Ian Dodds and written by Roxanna Pope
-Ice Cream Dream- Directed by Ekta Walia and written by Holly Bates and Etka Walia
We didn't watch all of these shorts as that would have taken up most of the lesson. The films we watched out of these were:
-Hard Labour
This short is about a woman called Yelena who lives with quite a rich family. A wife and Husband called Simon and Emily. They don't treat Yelena very well when she lives there, working for them. The husband is particularly nasty towards her and for this reason Yelena doesn't like him very much. Emily is pregnant with Simon's child. But then we also find out that Yelena is pregnant also pregnant and she tells Simon that it is his child. Simon doesn't want his wife to know that it's his baby and so he pays her to have an abortion, but she doesn't have it. In the end of this short, Emily has her baby and Yelena ends up taking this baby and having it as her own, as we find out that all this time Yelena has been faking her whole pregnancy by stuffing cushions up her jumper to make it seem as though she is pregnant. She then takes this baby and the money she has earned and goes back to the country she originally came from. One of the 3 stories on our short film has a storyline in which a girl is pregnant. So this short definitely got through to us in terms of ideas for our film.
-Job Street
This short is where the inspiration for having 3 stories in one came from that we intend to have in our film. This short introduces us to a street in which job seekers, who are foreign, go to find work. The 3 characters who we follow all wait on the street until a vehicle come to pick them up and take them away to do the jobs required of them. The audience feel sorry for all 3 of the people for having to do these not very nice jobs. Also because we follow each of their stories we feel closer to them which again makes us feel sympathy for them and the lives they all have.
-Stripes
Nothing in this short film gave us any ideas for our own film, but we did enjoy watching it. The plot line surrounds two men, Michael and Eddie. These two men used to know each other when they were in school, and because Eddie has dark skin, Michael used to pick on him and bully him, sometimes physically harming him. Now Eddie has come back for revenge and threatens Michael.
-Lou-Lou Lives Here
I really enjoyed this short film. It was the first one we watched and the style of it was very good and really got the whole class involved in it's odd plot line. After watching it we all said what we thought had actually happened during the film and we all had a different explanation of what we saw. The story starts with a small girl walking around in a forest and then near a road. A van pulls up and the man inside the van starts to chase the girl. We then have a scene where this man is getting attacked by a dog. The film ends with somebody shouting 'Lou-Lou!' then the dog runs into the garden of this house and a sign on the gate reads 'Lou-Lou lives here'. The girl was the dog.
-Unreal City
I was looking forward to watching this short film, as I really enjoy watching animated films/cartoons. I liked the plot of this as well. The little cartoon character had a fairly boring life, he went to work everyday and didn't seem to enjoy it very much. He had a music box with a dancer inside of it. When he got home from work he would get this music box and open it and watch her dancing. He then fell asleep and he had a dream about the dancing girl. He was in love with her and they were so happy in the dream. When he woke up he knocked the music box off the table by accident and it broke. At this point the audience feel really sad for him because of the box and the dancer being the only good things in his life. But then the dancer character magically grows from the box and becomes the same size as him and they end up very happy together.
-Ice Cream Dream
The main character Luna, dreams of making friends with the children who go to her Dad's ice cream van. She has dreams where she owns the ice cream van and all the children love her. She goes to work with her Dad one day and sees a boy who she wants to make friends with. She goes out to play with him and the films ends with her and this boy playing on his scooter whilst Luna's Dad drives past in the ice cream van.
This is what is written on the back of the DVD for these Short Films:
"The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund partners 11 strategic bodies across the UK to produce over 100 digital short films a year. The brief is simple: each film must be shot digitally, cost less that £10,000 and be less than 10 minutes in length. Digital shorts is designed to support the next generation of emerging filmmakers who are both technological and creative innovators. Digital shorts encourages the risk taking nature of film making by providing a supportive framework."
This DVD is called 'Digital Shorts' and it was made by the UK Film Council and the British Film Institute and was funded by the National Lottery. There are 8 shorts on this DVD:
-The First Time It Hits- Written and directed by Jason Budge
-Hard Labour- Directed by Oliver Krimpas and written by Lucy Floyd
-Job Street- Written and directed by Mathew Santiago Whitecross
-Stripes- Written and directed by Sean Spencer
-Lou-Lou Lives Here- Written and directed by Hazel Grian
-Unreal City- Peter Addington-Animator
-Leila- Directed by Ian Dodds and written by Roxanna Pope
-Ice Cream Dream- Directed by Ekta Walia and written by Holly Bates and Etka Walia
We didn't watch all of these shorts as that would have taken up most of the lesson. The films we watched out of these were:
-Hard Labour
This short is about a woman called Yelena who lives with quite a rich family. A wife and Husband called Simon and Emily. They don't treat Yelena very well when she lives there, working for them. The husband is particularly nasty towards her and for this reason Yelena doesn't like him very much. Emily is pregnant with Simon's child. But then we also find out that Yelena is pregnant also pregnant and she tells Simon that it is his child. Simon doesn't want his wife to know that it's his baby and so he pays her to have an abortion, but she doesn't have it. In the end of this short, Emily has her baby and Yelena ends up taking this baby and having it as her own, as we find out that all this time Yelena has been faking her whole pregnancy by stuffing cushions up her jumper to make it seem as though she is pregnant. She then takes this baby and the money she has earned and goes back to the country she originally came from. One of the 3 stories on our short film has a storyline in which a girl is pregnant. So this short definitely got through to us in terms of ideas for our film.
-Job Street
This short is where the inspiration for having 3 stories in one came from that we intend to have in our film. This short introduces us to a street in which job seekers, who are foreign, go to find work. The 3 characters who we follow all wait on the street until a vehicle come to pick them up and take them away to do the jobs required of them. The audience feel sorry for all 3 of the people for having to do these not very nice jobs. Also because we follow each of their stories we feel closer to them which again makes us feel sympathy for them and the lives they all have.
-Stripes
Nothing in this short film gave us any ideas for our own film, but we did enjoy watching it. The plot line surrounds two men, Michael and Eddie. These two men used to know each other when they were in school, and because Eddie has dark skin, Michael used to pick on him and bully him, sometimes physically harming him. Now Eddie has come back for revenge and threatens Michael.
-Lou-Lou Lives Here
I really enjoyed this short film. It was the first one we watched and the style of it was very good and really got the whole class involved in it's odd plot line. After watching it we all said what we thought had actually happened during the film and we all had a different explanation of what we saw. The story starts with a small girl walking around in a forest and then near a road. A van pulls up and the man inside the van starts to chase the girl. We then have a scene where this man is getting attacked by a dog. The film ends with somebody shouting 'Lou-Lou!' then the dog runs into the garden of this house and a sign on the gate reads 'Lou-Lou lives here'. The girl was the dog.
-Unreal City
I was looking forward to watching this short film, as I really enjoy watching animated films/cartoons. I liked the plot of this as well. The little cartoon character had a fairly boring life, he went to work everyday and didn't seem to enjoy it very much. He had a music box with a dancer inside of it. When he got home from work he would get this music box and open it and watch her dancing. He then fell asleep and he had a dream about the dancing girl. He was in love with her and they were so happy in the dream. When he woke up he knocked the music box off the table by accident and it broke. At this point the audience feel really sad for him because of the box and the dancer being the only good things in his life. But then the dancer character magically grows from the box and becomes the same size as him and they end up very happy together.
-Ice Cream Dream
The main character Luna, dreams of making friends with the children who go to her Dad's ice cream van. She has dreams where she owns the ice cream van and all the children love her. She goes to work with her Dad one day and sees a boy who she wants to make friends with. She goes out to play with him and the films ends with her and this boy playing on his scooter whilst Luna's Dad drives past in the ice cream van.
This is what is written on the back of the DVD for these Short Films:
"The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund partners 11 strategic bodies across the UK to produce over 100 digital short films a year. The brief is simple: each film must be shot digitally, cost less that £10,000 and be less than 10 minutes in length. Digital shorts is designed to support the next generation of emerging filmmakers who are both technological and creative innovators. Digital shorts encourages the risk taking nature of film making by providing a supportive framework."
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