The blog

The first thing you see on this blog are the short films i have watched and posted onto the wall. In our seminar groups we watched some short films to give us a taste of what the course was about, an example of the films we saw was 'The Black Hole' which you will see later in the blog. What this film shows is that the simplest ideas can make a good film. With in the film we see themes of greed, glutony, mystery and exploration. Yet there is only one man and on photocopier within the film. It is a great use of cinematic ideas to create a very good film.

I felt these films were good in many ways and helped me in my understanding of short film making as i will be making my own film in the near future. To find the materials i needed such as the short films i used two main sources. Firstly the Virgin media shorts website http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/ and the second was of course YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ These websites where full of films that have been made for similar seasons to mine and also as projects. Virgin Media shorts was particularly good as it had more catagories from comedy to drama. It also had sections of the best film and other previous winners. Its usfull rating system also helped when choosing a film to watch, as not only did it tell you the films average score but it let you give your own rating too.