Song & Ideas

Song choice

During my short film I plan to have music playing in the background, and I have chosen to play Bob Dylan's 'Times they are a changing'. I have chosen this particular song as the lyrics relate to my short film idea and that i was inspired my the film 'watchmen' introduction who also used this song. the link underneath is the introduction clip to Watchmen.
Watchmen Intro

Short Story Idea

I have decided that my short film will be based on William Shakespeare's 'Seven ages of man.' This poem is from Shakespeare's 'As you like it' and uin the peom shakesphere explains how life is split up in 7 parts; infancy, school boy, lover, soldier, justice pantaloon and second childishness and I plan to show these steps in my short film. I have stumbled onto a problem relating to the shortage of male actors so I plan to twist the original story to relate to a woman's life and her problems. e.g Instead of the woman being in the army her partner can be the soldier in Afghanistan. This idea relates to the modern problems of the world and of women.

Other A2 short films by different students.

I have researched other short films on youtube and these what inspired me most.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K06Zjaeuiso
this short film has a great use of lighting to suit the story's tragedy, the use of camera and plot are unique.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOVNNlRjJfI
The plot is very creative and i love the way it portrays how precious time is, the film is made so the story is played backwards, this is very clever as the main character is represented as greedy and selfish backwards but forwards he is a giving generous man.

My Chosen Project

For my A2 media course i have choosen the following:
 'A short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with a poster of the film and a film magazine review page featuring the film.'
I have chosen this specific option because this relates to the career and/or further education i would like to take in the future.