How our short film fits the codes and conventions of short film

Lazy days fits the codes and conventions of short film very well, its short and sweet lasting approximately 3 minutes with a very defined storyline to it,

a man spends his time watching television all the time. after a day of indulging his television addiction to the fullest extent he wakes up to have the television stare and stalk him much like he did with his favourite program, after a day of being stalked he finds himself trying to cure boredom with the laptop which then follows him around creating a vicious circle involving technology following him around.


much like the short films we've studied in class lazy days fits in well as its a short story told in less than 10 minutes- like the mime love story we've watched in class lazy days has the quirky comedy to it that few short films adhere to ; like a Monty python sketch and a Mitchel and Webb sketch that could be classified as a short film.

Editing of the Short Film

The editing process was short and sweet, much like our short film, i was present for everyday of the editing and contributed to it by adding and taking away parts that had been laid down, i also contributed by putting in a soundtrack that Louis and Bethan had chosen called "lazy days" and adding my own track called "comic cowboy" The piece had a very strange gimmick of having the television follow the protagonist and by using the comic cowboy track for each of the televisions appearances it gave the piece the added emphasis it needed to make the audience laugh (as tested by using members of the form seeing the piece with and without sound) much like the filming process a lot of my time was spent messing around with sound especially on one day where the levels were messing up and there were various things wrong with the television sound and the ring tone sound; saying this i did have a part editing the piece as a whole adding cross fades, fades to black and general transitions between shots like with the outdoor scene having a cigarette.

as I've already mentioned the process was short and I'd only come across complications when it came to sound, everything else was generally very straight forward and easy to mend.

Filming our Short Film

there were many complications to do with sorting out the filming, one being that our "tramps" idea had failed and the Saturday we were supposed to film completely collapsed due to an actor dropping out at the last minute; but with the new idea for "lazy days" in hand we picked up the filming pace and began to film on Monday the 1st of march which was the first date of our 3 day filming.

During the filming of our short film i was present for 2 out of the 3 days meaning that i wasn't there for the bus scenario and the throwing out of the television; by being present i mean that i was using the boom to pick up sound that would be needed for the final edit to make our piece better than what it would have been without the sound.


Filming was incredibly simple as the whole short film was based around peckham rye e.g Louis' house mainly the living room so there wasn't any problem for me to be present for the filming to contribute to the stylising and the sound proportions of the set dates we had given ourselves to film