Shorts Poster

Shorts Venue

A few of us from the Grad Show group went down to our venue yesterday (22/2/2012) to check the place out.

Our venue for our film festival is The Lyric Theatre in Carmarthen and will be on Sunday 20th May
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 In the entrance there are large spaces in which we can put posters up on the day of the event. 

(We will need to get the exact size for these)

Another space in which we can put posters up, 

we can send these to the venue as soon as they have been made

The foyer area. We will be placing pop-up stands here and a TV

with an intro video being played 

 Main theatre

(The three front rows will have tables in front of them)

Main theatre

(Approx 160 capacity if we add a curtain to make it more enclosed) 

The bar area we shall be using after the showing of our films

We can also use the spaces here to place our own posters and images

Shorts Logo

We finally have a logo!

Stare Music

I've started to create some of the score for my short by using garage band. I've used just simple piano loops and edited the pitch and dynamics

Stare Synopsis (SPOILERS)

'Stare' is a psychological thriller about a young man who’s life unravels on a downward spiral after he sees something that no one else can. The protagonist of the film, Tyler lives a normal life. He has a good job and lives with his girlfriend, Sara. In his spare time he regularly hangs out with his best friend, Darren, who he has known since school. His life starts to deteriorate once he begins to see what he thinks is a man dressed in suit but his face is never clear. He continuously sees this “man” throughout his day and the week.  He doesn't believe himself at first and thinks that it’s just his mind playing tricks on him, but then this “man” keeps appearing to him, not saying a word to Tyler just standing and staring at him. He can no longer be sure of his sanity and starts to go mad. Gradually things start to get worse; events keep going wrong throughout his day and his week, he starts going into work late and his work is slacking. His boss ends up firing him after Tyler starts harassing workmates about seeing this strange man. The more he sees the man, the clearer he becomes, Tyler then realises that the man is in fact wearing a sheep mask. Tyler's girlfriend or his best friend don’t believe him, the two people he trusts more than anyone else in the world. They haven’t seen this man and tells Tyler he is being stupid.  He feels that both Sara and Darren are turning against him.When Tyler has no one to turn to and nowhere to go he ends up at a bar, drinking by himself. A stranger is next to him staring at him. Tyler asks the man what is he looking at and the stranger replies with “You. Why are you wearing a sheep mask?”



I did have a different ending in the original synopsis, and may film both of them when I start shooting, and decide on final ending when editing. 

Other ending:

When Tyler loses his job. feels abandoned by both his girlfriend and his best friend, he feels he is at the lowest point of his life and can no longer sees the "man" even when he is standing right in front of Tyler. A stranger walks past and it is him who can now see him.

Old Rusher Log

Just been going through a folder of last years work and came across this:

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Note to self: Try and keep this up to date when filming 'Stare' so I don't have to go through the whole tape of film at the end! Took hours...and hours...and hours.

(There were 90 shots in total)

Stare Poster

Had a go at creating a teaser poster for my film.

The original image (right) is of my brother wearing a mask that was from a Doctor Who magazine. I wont be using this mask in my film, probably be breaking some copyright rules, but there will be a masked person in my film.

Back to the past

This is me back when I filmed my zombie short film 'Ways To Kill Carl'

I wasn't in my film, I just felt left out not being covered in white face paint and fake blood (which I made myself, and far too much of the stuff). So I joined in with all the zombies :)

Here are a few screencaps from the film: