Confessions of a Sock-a-holic: Rough Cut #1

Here is the first edit of our rough cut. As mentioned in the previous post, we are still to add credits, idents and possible re-shoot some scenes to emphasise who 'Paul'/'Sockman' is.

Rough Cut #1

Having finished editing the first draft of our full edit (link in the next post). We have come to the conclusion that there is no actual explanation as to what the 'sockman' actual does. There is also a scene that we believe needs to be re-filmed as it does not match the story in the correct way - this is when 'Paul' is explaining the movement of the sockmonster; there has however been mixed opinions over it. One critique was that it disconnected from the other parts of the film. Another said that they liked the scene because it demonstrated 'Paul' being mentally unstable.

Camera Angles & Editing in Short Films

In short films, a variety of strong, storytelling camera angles are key. They use a shorter amount of time to tell the story compared to dialogue and in some cases can have more emphasis on points such as enigma.
Editing is part of the post-production, it is key in short films to signify when one scene has ended and another one begins.

30 Second Analysis
AVARICE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87B1tz3KdOg)
In the this short, we are given an establishing long shot. It sets us up with a bedroom and a mystery girl reading a book - title is unknown at this point. We then cut to a close up of the book, which gives the impression that it is significant to the film. A 45degree pan is then used to swing and show the audience the female lead reading the book 'Macbeth' and responds to look at her phone. We then cut to a close up of her phone which has a cracked screen, it is unknown if this has a significant mean. The shot reverses back a close up of her face staring at her phone and then cuts to a long shot of her changing position so she is sitting on the end of the bed staring out the window mournfully. We are then cut to side close up of her face so we can see she is debating what to do next.
In summary, we are poistioned with a young girl, presumably studying the play Macbeth and is in question as to what to do next or perhaps she is lonely and wondering why no one has contacted her. All of this is unknown. As the film goes on we see that she has a 'magic pot' which duplicates anything she puts in there, for example money, so very quickly she becomes quite rich and spends it all. However this all comes to an end and symolises what happens when you get greedy.

Tick Tock ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w14v4vGUDdg)
We are first situated with an establishing medium shot of a ticking clock, which then pans to a young girl sitting on her bed enthusiatically. Thye camera pans again and we see a young male walk into the room from the corridor. The camera then sinks to the floor and blurs so that we only see bottom half of the couple. From their body movements we presume they are kissing, however the young male is then pulled out by a unknown spirit almost because do not see what pulled him out of the room. The entire first scene is in one take, so no editing has taken place. The speed of movement, obviously sped up signifies rapid changes in time.