CPDR17 Miki

About a Girl explores themes such as aspirations and dark themes such as domestic abuse, family troubles and poverty. The film has a comedic start where a girl is shown in silhouette singing and dancing to the Britney Spears song “Stronger.” It is abruptly cut to her then walking along the backdrop of Manchester's industrial landscape talking non-stop about her aspirations for the future such as being a singer. She also tells the audience about her frustration with her family such as her Mum and wanting to live with her Dad. As she goes on walking alongside a canal her descriptions of her pop idols and her favourite ice cream are mixed with hints about family troubles, poverty and domestic violence. Stating that she has become "good at hiding things", she throws the plastic bag she has been carrying into the canal. A camera shot from under the water reveals a baby surrounded by blood. The approach taken was going from light-hearted comedy to then quickly becoming somethin...

Picturehouse from SHU Film & Media Production on Vimeo .

In this session we were asked to produce a rough cut of our short documentary to present in class and received feedback from via post it notes and general class discussions. The most prevalent praise from our rough cut was our use of the drone which is owned by Ryan in the group. We decided to use the drone to capture the hard to reach places inside the building and to get an overall atmosphere of the building itself. We also used the drone for the viewer to feel more immersed within the documentary as though they are in the building having it gliding smoothly across from a point of view aspect. Another praise we got was from the use of an old movie filter which people in the class said fits in with the documentary nicely and the old music which Cameron composed on the computer. The old film filter and music used in conjunction elicits a nostalgic response. Our rough cut was intended to build anticipation by firstly not giving away exactly where the loc...