George Feast

Diary log- Week 4

Upon analysing the 3 required short films I sought to create an amalgamation of everything I had learned through these analyses. To achieve this I aimed to contrast and compare 2 of the short films I analysed; Infidel’ and ‘The Black Hole.’ To complete these tasks I comparatively mentioned the mis en scene of the films, their ideological values, representation and their target audience. I also juxtaposed several of these features against each other. This was useful in influencing my final product as it

allowed me to review which conventions and features of existing short films I wanted to incorporate into my own one.

During this week I also focused my attention onto the starting point of the creation of my short film. My media teacher advised me to base my product off of a singular quote, moral parable or existing script to give a backbone for my film. Taking this on board, I researched several scripts and selected one I believed would most inspire me for a narrative of my own short film. ‘Social Good’ by Bobby Hudson was the script I settled with. This was due to it being set in the genre which I wished my short

film to be in; Science fiction and the several themes and ideologies it has contained within its script. I thought the complex narrative of a corrupt government being forced to food process the first borns of every family on their 18th birthdays to combat overpopulation was an excellent influence on my product. For this reason I decided to base my final product solely on this script but heavily adapt it to make it unique and different from the events within its literature.