Student Films Research

What works well and what doesn’t work so well in a student film.
What works well?

1)      Good direction to make it seem as real as possible.

2)      Good actors

3)      Consistency throughout the film keeping it at a high standard. (no sudden change of weather where its been filmed on two different days in same location)

4)      Having a few ideas for every scene so you’re not narrowed down to just one thing so if you can’t get that particular thing perfect you can go to plan B which in some films plan B looks a lot better than their original idea.

5)      Simple and quality.
what doesn’t work so well?

1)      Last minute actors being used.

2)      Lack of direction by production team.

3)      Complicated and tackey. Quantity isn’t quality.

4)      Things looking as though theyre being rushed so or it feeling quite awkward watching it when its not meant to be.

5)      Films that have clearly not been planned and organised.

Looking at some student films its clear that the more work you put into it and the more thought you put into executing the film the better it will be because without planning you go with your first idea and its hard to elaborate from it and give reasons as to why you did things when you don’t know why you thought of that and how it is better than another idea you had. (easy marks dropped!)