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FilmG short film - Finished Films

Here are the finished versions of the Films with English and German subtitles:

English STs




Deutsche UTs

FilmG short film - stage 3

The finished script is viewable here, all copyrights belong to Sonja Geracsek.

FilmG - Stage 2

Synopsis:

A yearlong friendship was ended by Steve, without an explanation as to why, which makes Sophie reflect their relationship and what it means to know another person and trust them in depth. The story is told in flashbacks with her reminiscing those times in a voice-over monologue.

FilmG short film - stage 1

After the FilmG film workshop on Skye, I had to realise that my story (After the Barbecue) that I was going to use for the FilmG competition was too long for a 5 minute short film.

So, I stuck to the basis of the story, being "No one is, who you think they are". Drawing from personal experience I have written up a story outline. I'm not sure if this is quite as catchy but it sure will be more personal and convincing, having experienced something similar.

A girl is sitting on a hill with a solemn expression on her face. She is looking across the river. She is contemplating that you can't know anyone through and through, no matter how well or long you have known them. During her out-loud thoughts, we see flashbacks of her and her best (male) friend. These are various bonding moments during which their relationship was established, including one moment where they exchange bracelets as a sign of their friendship.
The film cuts back and forth between the flashbacks and the girl sitting on the hill.
For the last flashback, she is walking down a quiet street with houses on both sides of the road. She notices her friend walking in the opposite direction on the other side of the road. She waves at him. He glances at her but pretends he hasn't seen her as he walks past. She calls out his name while crossing the street, but he is not turning around. Finally she reaches him and stops him. She hasn't seen him in a while and he wasn't answering her calls. What was he up to? He gives her some vague excuse about having been busy. As she pushes for an explanation, he drops the bomb. He can't be friends with her any more. Without any further ado he turns around and walks away. No explanation, nothing. She is left standing, watching him walk away.
She looks at her bracelet, still on her wrist. She decides, if you can't rely on someone the way you thought you could, there is no point crying over spilled milk. She gets up, walks to the river shore, takes off her bracelet and drops it in the water. She watches the bracelet sink, makes a last statement about never really being able to see someone's true colours and walks off.

After the Barbecue - stage four

I have now finished the storyboard, excluding the conversation scene. I just don't know when the cuts are going to be during that bit, maybe we'll have to improvise that or I'll just discuss that with Stef beforehand.

This is the assault scene which is going to be laid over the conversation. The conversation is going to act as a voice-over.
The first frame of the first page is, as indicated above the panel, actually to be viewed as the the fourth one in the row.

After the Barbecue - stage three

Here is the basement i.e. final scene of the short film. The drawings are partially quite horrible, I hope it is still evident what is happening though. In some of them, I have drawn the characters as stick figures, because it made it easier to draw the surroundings and actions that way, without having to figure out anatomy on top of that.

After the Barbecue - stage two

I have started storyboarding the script. I have done it in single scenes, because I'm not sure about all the cuts and during the conversation. The overall of the title sequence is done. The last three drawn panels are basically one scene in different perspectives. I have also taken some pictures for the camera sweeping across the street. To see the pictures in the slideshow in higher resolution (as always) click on the image.

After the Barbecue - first stage

SUMMER PROJECT 2010

Stefanos Birmpotsoukis and me have decided to engage in a little summer project. It will be a short film.
I used a script from simplyscripts.com for my first year Visual Literacy coursework, where we had to visualise a character and a scene from a preferred script from that website. That script inspired me for a short film of my own.

I think the story is nice and short, but also snappy, with an eerie atmosphere. Perfect for our little experiment. We are still looking for actors, that can shoot in Stuttgart (Germany) over the summer. If anyone is interested (or anyone even reading this XD), please get in touch with me.

Below is my sketchbook and stop bullet points from when I was creating the character & scene for my coursework, as well as the latter. To view the images in higher quality, click on the slide-show.

Sketchbook

Charachter

Modelling as my character is Iain - check out his blog ;)

Scene

And finally, I have created the first few storyboard panels and some bullet points for the intro scene. These scenes would be in the title sequence alongside the credits with some Desperate Housewifes-themed music or maybe something in the direction of Weeds, with a twist that says "nice afternoon barbecue in suburbia, but something isn't quite right". The title sequence would tell the story of people having a barbecue that would lead up to the first scene.

All close-up scenes would be accompanied with the appropriate audio, like the sizzling meat on the grill etc. - Dexter style - and intersected with shots of the sped up sky getting darker.

All links in this blog are there for a reason, there are no auto-ad-links in here! It's safe to click them ;) gives you an idea of what we are going for.