New Wave Short Film

Short Film 

Brief and evaluation

Alongside the written part of contextual studies, we were also tasked with creating our own short film in the style of a New Wave movement of our choice. To keep it simple I decided to stick with the British New Wave style. 

As New Wave is notorious for not making sense and being more about the editing than the storyline, for example the feature of long shots and jump cuts, therefore I decided a series of random shots were, for me the best way to capture and create my own version. 

Originally I had decided to work in a pair, however as we progressed through planning we came to the realisation that we had different ideas for what we wanted out of the production. So upon re-evaluation, through me having a weekend booked away in Durham visiting a friend, i decided to film random segments of my weekend to get up to a 2 minute clip, therefore in reality, simply capturing my weekend in a series of more obscure shots.

My shots vary from scene to scene, however I admit the quality isn't as good as I'd like it to be as it was filmed on my Iphone and was filmed at quite a fast pace and predominantly in the dark so there isnt as much contrast with lighting as I'd have liked.

Something I regret was the fact I didn't know the weekend I had selected to go away on was Durham's annual light festival which was unfortunately finished on the night I had arrived unlike the previous day where it went on into the early hours which I was quite disappointed about as I believe it could have made a strong difference to the final appearance of my footage and been very unique around the brief but fitting in a way. So ultimately if I'd have done better research I'd have planned my weekend/time better to have been able to include the lumiere festival in my work.

As an additional resource I also used free online stock footage that I felt would relate to my film just to ensure there was some superior quality periods within the production.

Overall I wouldn't say my film screams New Wave, however I would argue it's very randomised and includes some unique objects within shots and gives a nice insight into the weekend I experienced in Durham. If I were to carry out the task again, I would definitely do more extensive research into what I could have filmed in Durham rather than it be a total stroke of luck for footage and would perhaps take more time and precaution in the overall appearance/quality of shots.

I edited my film using imovie and decided to have periods of fast edited footage transitioning to slow paced or normal footage, I did this to replicate the actions of sporadic jump cuts within new wave.