So while my partner and I are still decided on what storyline we want to go with, we decided to do some more research on each of the ideas genre and what limitations they may have on us. Essentially helping us decide which story will be the most realistic to convey with our time frame while still being interesting to the audience.
1. Lemonade Mules
This short film would definitely fall in the crime genre and we'd like to embrace typical conventions of this genre rather than challenging it due to our limited familiarity with it. We'd probably play around with lighting and the brightness of the actual footage to make it seem much darker and mysterious when the shots are focused on the children to symbolize the danger they're getting themselves into. Along with this, we'd contrast high and low angles between the man and the actual children to express the man becoming suspicious of them. The High angle would signify his power over them because he could easily tell on them and the low angles would establish that despite them conducting serious crimes, they are just kids. Along with this, our mise-en-scene would be heavily focused on their wardrobe to reveal the kids are low income while the man isn't, to relay a theme of social class differences and how they are just trying to make ends meet. This could be done by casting an older white man and have him be dressed in a blue button-down and a nice pair of jeans while the children are contrasted with darker, faded and worn-out clothes.
2. The Book Club
Though the idea is not so comedic (in my opinion), Ricardo wants to classify this as a comedy. So most comedies tend to have a natural and realistic vibe to it when it comes to wardrobe, lighting and the actual camera work to make the characters feel more real rather than actors on a screen. Which is pretty ironic since the people we would be portraying aren't some you'd hope to be real. We'd probably rely on mid shots and two shots to reveal each of the character's relationships with one another. Each guy within the book club would be a different typical character in comedy movies like one who's socially awkward, another who's overly confident, the one all of them make fun of, maybe throw in a super nerdy guy, you know like every other character in a Seth Rogan movie. The wardrobe would be extremely casual with jeans, a graphic tee or a polo shirt for the nerd, and some basic sneakers to further emphasize how they want to be seen as normal when society may look down on them. And not much creativity will be had with the lighting, just enough to portray natural sunlight throughout the house.
3. The Chef
This short film would be in the horror genre and we'd probably have this film be more on the eerie side. We would definitely utilize close-ups and extreme close-ups especially during scenes with the chef touching the ground human meat and the reactions of the high-class characters eating the food, being unaware of its origins. Low key lighting would be used throughout the scenes inside the chef's kitchen and cooler while more natural and yellow hinted lights could be used in the restaurant to juxtapose the portrayal of the normal restaurant to the unknowing that goes on in the kitchen. And though I didn't touch on sound for the other topics, in order to create a more horrific and dramatic sense to the film we will have to carefully pick stings to use. These would be used to build tension and drama from what is actually happening during the cooking of humans to it then being served onto a plate of an unknowing customer.
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