In today’s session, we watched a lot short films and talked to Amy O’Hara about further opportunities and what to do next. Today while watching short films, Sam gave us examples of not so good ones, which demonstrated how editing can really impact your short film. Sam really made sure that we get the idea that editing makes the film come alive, and it’s so important that we keep continuity within our shorts, and we make good fades and transitions and that the editing goes well with our story. However from Amy, today I learnt that as an Actor, i need to be getting out there more, this is too short film networking sessions, and short film nights.For me this is great, as I love watching short films so this is a bonus, as I get to watch short films as well as meet people who make these films which is majorly important as an actor, as knowing people and networking is so key!Amy also advices that we watch the credits and look out for key names, such as the casting director and producer so we can email them to try and find opportunities.Today I worked with my team in spotting out potential mistakes in short films that we watched, but also talking about features we really liked, which is amazing as we can take inspiration from these points to put in our films. From here we need to have a creative vision of how our short film will look, luckily we have been blessed with being able to see clips from our film. Therefore we are able to play around with these edits and see what we can do with the film.This is incredible as we can literally see how we can edit our films by making a draft of the editing on apps like iMovie, so this can save us so much time already before the editing day.
