The Filmmaking Journey of Tom Swales

Pre-Production Wednesday 16th September 2020  Today we were assigned our project for the Horror Short Film. We went through a presentation about what makes a good horror. We went through the music and how the build up of sound keeps the tension and often a sound makes a jump scare. Furthermore we went through. We learnt that the hero for in horror films is usually an average person but are apart of the typical social group. Furthermore, many horror's have a universal moment, an event that many of us will have experienced. Then an incident that kicks of the story and creates drama at the beginning. Other important things in horror is mise-en-scene, this includes props, costumes, SFX and makeup.  I began to write down ideas for our horror film, I was very intrigued and interested in a physiological horror. I brainstormed and came up with the idea of homeless people going missing and are used for organ donors. I wanted this short film to be a microcosm for how society treat homel...

Tuesday 8th September 2020 On our first day back after college everyone had loads of new and exciting idea. Kelly told us about the idea of an interactive theater. The inspiration for her idea was a Disney land attraction called Cinemagic where the acting being on the screen and on the stage. By having both aspects this will be a very challenging but a great teamwork project with the actors. Furthermore we looked at different events which are similar to the Cinemagic such as the Secret Cinema. The best way to understand the concept of the interactive cinema was to watch examples different types of interactive cinema. After watching different examples, we were split up into groups and began brainstorming multiple different ideas. I really like the concept of the Cinemagic where the actors went inside the screen as going through different movies throughout time.  We really liked this idea but we wanted it to be different in some way, we began brainstorming ideas and our group came up...