Opportunites within the Brief

Opportunites within the Brief

This brief can really provoke creative thinking within the participant, of this competition brief, as it requires them to "tell a story" through social media. This is develops it because they have to think on how to tell a story which is a creative process, it’s like a practise for storytelling. Another way it could improve self-development is by having to document someone who has affected them in their life, they could personally learn new things about the person that they did not know before. By having to think of "unusual places" this also could have development on creative thinking, but also improve knowledge of the person’s geographical locations.

Ralph Styles Ultra - 

This Kickstarter project is to create a short film, this is fleshing out of the 1960/70's cigarette adverts and explores themes such as manipulation and seduction. They have already created a short 15 minute discussion about the adverts.

Self-Development - for my personal development, if I was to help create this short film it would help improve organisation and team-working skills with others also it could improve technical aspects such as directing skills (working with actors) and cinematography skills, gaining experience with equipment.  I could also improve my editing skills whilst working on this project, improving my cutting, shot choices, effects and colour grading.

New Skills - I would hopefully gain skills in writing as I am not strong at this aspect of film creating, also as it will have a budget of around £16,000 this opens up a opportunity to work on real sets, maybe use different advanced equipment so hopefully I will gain the experience with new equipment, improving my technical knowledge. Also I could learn new editing skills, such as colour correcting images and using CGI effects which I have not used before.

Multi-skilling - The multi-skilling aspect of this would involve learning and using multiple skills at once, this would be done throughout the production, directing I would have to direct the actors, discuss and work with them whilst thinking about camera movements, shots and atmosphere, this also applies to the cinematographer role, I would have to consider lighting, depth-of-field and composition whilst also knowing the right settings for the camera.

Individuality/Group work - In this project it will definitely be group work mainly, this is mainly a positive as it is a production that requires a lot of team members, this can be beneficial as you have lots of different skills and instincts that can be applied to the project, also relationships can be developed during the production. Individual work will include ideas thought by the individual that can be contributed into the team project.