Blood Ties - A Short Film

Here is our short film - "Blood Ties" I hope you enjoy, please watch in 1080p for best quality.

Ancillary Text - Poster

Above is the poster I have created for our Short Film - "Blood Ties". I wanted create the atmosphere for the whole short film in one image. I took a screen grab from the final scene and put some black and white and blur effects on it in photoshop. It shows the main character Jack leaning against the grafiti in the background, I was quite lucky to get the image of old style buildings painted on the wall but graffiti sprayed over the top of it gives it a dark and dingy feel. You can see Jack is looking towards the titles in the top right corner but you can denote from this that he is really looking at something much more important.

I have put in some quotes that I feel fit with what people would say about our film. You can see that I have also rated our short film a 15. We considered rating it an 18 but then we thought there are no scenes of anyone actually taking drugs, being murdered and only a few moments of swearing, then it should be a 15.

Ancillary Text - Magazine Review

Here is my second ancillary text that I have created for our production. It is a magazine review and front cover in the style of Empire magazine. I have kept the same theme for this ancillary as the poster but put the titles along the bottom of the page. To create the magazine review I used Microsoft Publisher and photoshop to create the previous images. For the review page I have used the same style information boxes as the real magazine would, using still images along the side of the review and the star rating in the bottom left corner. 

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Q4

Evaluation Question 2

Q2

Evaluation Question 1

Here is question 1 of my evaluation, I answered it in the style of a directors commentary.

Filming - Final Scene

The fifth and final scene is definitely the most important in our short film and we took the most amount of time filming this scene. It starts off with the main character Jack waking up as we have seen previously but this time it has a sense of urgency and does not mess around making toast. We see him walking through the urban areas of the city the soundscape of the city will be crucial here to make the viewer really feel like they are there.

 

 

We then see the character preparing himself in the pedestrian subway awaiting the arrival of the hitman. I felt this is the most powerful location we chose to film in as it really sets the scene for where a murder could take place.

 

Finally the story wraps up and in the final few shots you can really see why we have called our short film "Blood Ties".

 

 

 

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