For ‘Element Two’ I have selected my topic/passion as film. Each piece of work has its own reasons as to why I made it, and this is the page where I will explain all my decision making for each piece of work that I did for ‘Element Two’
Creative Writing:
For the creative writing task, I was struggling with what I could do at first. However, I thought back to an old college project that I did for the first year of my level three diploma. The project was to design a poster and DVD cover for an idea that we had for a film. When I produced my idea, I thought about what it would be like if I could write it and what would happen, but I never did that until this piece of work. For my creative writing task, I decided that I would write the first 600 words for how this film would begin. The idea was inspired by previous work that I had done as well as the history of American Insane Asylums and inspired by the game ‘The Evil Within.’
Moodboard:
For the moodboard I wanted to show off my favourite films and Director with a geeky undertone as well as using colours that represented my love for more mature films with the aim to set a serious tone whilst also aiming to set a mood of excitement with the geeky undertone. What also helped set a serious tone was the clapperboard design as well as the font that I used because, to me the font represented the idea that I mainly enjoy serious and mature films. When bringing all these aspects together I do believe I have achieved my aims in setting a serious and geeky mood which is exactly what my taste in films are.
Audio:
For the audio part of ‘Element Two’ I wanted to take a moment to talk about why my passion for film is the exact reason why I do not study film. To me film is an escape and I do feel that if were to study it extensively, the magic of film would be taken away from me and all I want is to enjoy it. I also used this as a moment to share my experience of working in a cinema throughout the year of 2023 and what a crazy experience it was with big releases every week of every month. Towards the end I wanted to talk about the next part of the project that I would be working on which was my film/video task and include the Q&A criteria by asking my partner who was going to be in the film about her favourite movie and whether she was looking forward to being a part to play throughout audience of someone just speaking to them as well as music.
Film/Video:
For the last part of the project, this was where I wanted to do better from ‘Element One’ by going through everything required on the assignment PowerPoint and making sure it is in there. For this film I wanted to create something that was unrelated to the creative writing task but also showed in some way how I pictured the movie to be in the event if I ever made it. The text between images were done to represent the thoughts going through the head of the person watching her throughout and the black white is done to represent that this is a dark short film. I included many a lot of sounds that I created myself such as the noises of a shovel, a bus, and the music is copyright free and is used to further push a dark theme. Horrors and Thrillers are of my favourite genre of film, and I really enjoyed making one of my own.