Scribes - The Aftermath

A vast amount of work went into our short film 'Scribes'. Not to mention our extremely ambitious undertaking of building an apartment set! Though stressful and full of complications, it all worked out well in the end. The audience we were targeting was 16-32 year olds who like comedies and dramas. It turned out not to be as comedic as we originally planned, but still very dramatic! 

The main character is a young man called Daniel. He suffered with mental disorders in the past but with medication and therapy, has been able to live a normal life. In the time the film is set in, he has come down with a bad cold. It has now been a few days and he hasn't left his living room. 

So to achieve this atmosphere and mood we created a very messy living room set. There are crumpled-up used tissues scattered everywhere and half a dozen empty pizza boxes piled on top of each other!

We spent a great deal of time focusing on the alleyway scene of the film, as this was the most pivotal point in the story, where Ben finally understands, and sees, what's going to happen to London. Unfortunately we couldn't just walk into any alleyway and start filming, instead we had to plan two weeks of organising and applying for a permit to film there. As the director this was all up to me and I really enjoyed it! I called the Bath Film Office and explained what we needed which resulted in a few emails back and forth. They were really impressed with how we had gone about our request and were given permits to film in 3 alleyways over the course of a week, just for backup. Thanks to being really organised! 

In the picture below you can see one of the 3 signs we put up to notify the public of the filming we were doing. Also you can see a high-visibility jacket I had on. This was all part of the Bath Film Office's location protocol. 

In the end, I can firmly say that I produced and edited a film that I'm proud of. Though we had to overcome many obstacles along the way, it's been well worth it. And now we have a potential award-winning short film! I have learnt so much from this production. I'm a much more capable producer now, as well as a more skilled compositor. Especially after having to frame-by-frame mask in a television into quite a few of the scenes, sometimes working with 3 different masks at a time!