Research

For this unit I will be making my own short film. For my Research I have looked at a website http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/. The Portobello Film Festival is an independant international film festival which is based in London. The websites holds over 700 different short films which are produced by various people with a different age group. Their are a variety of short film with different genres such as animations, documentaries and music films. I think this that this website is very useful to me because I am a bit indecisive of what kind of genre I am going to use for my own production of a short film. Some of the plots for the short films that I have looked at on the website seem very interesting so I intend to go and watch some of the films.

I went on youtube and I found a clip on Portbello Film Festival slideshow in the year 2005. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKRbheAOkXU

History of Portobello Film Festival
The Film Festival was created in 1996 as a reaction to the moribund state of the British film industry, to provide a forum for new film-makers and give exposure to movies on different formats. Many of our previously out-on-a-limb directors have since been recognised by the big fish in the industry. The festival has been dubbed ‘the wild side of Brit Film’ (Metro), ‘this pioneering film festival’ (Evening Standard), ‘the biggest celebration of independent film in Europe’ (The Independent) and ‘London’s biggest filmic free-for-all’ (Time Out). That the Portobello Film Festival shows tomorrow’s films today is evident in the number of ideas first presented here that regularly crop up in the mainstream. At the start Portobello lacked a cinema – The Electric didn’t reopen till 2001 and anyway we have never charged admission, which makes screening in commercial cinemas problematic - so through virtue out of necessity, the Festival has screened films in diverse venues like parks, theatres, clubs and bars. In 1996 we showed films in two tents on Athlone Gardens with 35mm and video projection. The selection included local movies "Performance" by Nicholas Roeg/Donald Cammell and "Leo The Last" (John Boorman) plus, in the indie section, the yet to be recognised Guy Ritchie ("The Hard Case") was short listed for the Golden Boot Award. Other shortlisted films that year included Gaz Mayall’s “The Great British Spliff”, Steven Galvin’s “The Hole”, Ritchie Winearl’s “The Imitators”, Christine Edzard’s “As You Like It” with James Fox and Deborah Ferguson’s “Attitude Adjustor”. The eventual winner…a Golden Boot sponsored by Dr Martens footwear, and held at a special ceremony at De Lane Lea Studios in Soho was Caspar Walsh for “Stairway”. 1997: the Festival created a vibe in Athlone Gardens again with a bar, restaurant and three cinema tents. More audio-visual style-shapers were screened. Hexstatic showed their stunning “Natural Rhythm Trilogy” along with Giles (Orbital) Thacker’s image wizardry. Bill Drummond came along to the 3-day event to see the K Foundation’s burning a million quid and 25 hours of the M25 films. Phil Smith presented the only public showing of his Metalhedz/Blue Note documentary. By now we were attracting well over 200 entries, from a public appeal in Time Out, colleges, bars and production houses. The Festival has always been committed to showing all films submitted and providing free entry to all screenings. The Golden Boot was awarded to "Junk", starring Adam Ant, by Cassius Rayner.