A man with a color phobia confronts a fruit basket inside his house.
The video presented above illustrates our theme of fear and phobias, as well as the discomfort we intend to create in the photo booth before the film is broadcast (the video itself is not allusive to the film's story). By combining 7 distinct phobias, we created an experience that encourages the viewer to look away from the screen, or to fill up with courage and endure the whole experience.
As for the story, Bruno has lived for so long in a black and white environment that he forgets what colors are, as does his phobia of them. Seeing all the colors inside a fruit basket, Bruno rediscovers his fear and the effects of his phobia. In the end, Bruno discovers that he is cured of his phobia and that he can leave the prison without color. Sometimes we think that the ideas we created in the past are the ultimate truth. As we grow, our truths grow with us and sometimes become the lies we tell ourselves to comfort ourselves from the past.
This short film aims to explore the concept of fear and the possession it can have in someone, as well as encouraging the viewer to free themselves from their forgotten fears and phobias in order to exceed the limits of their life and live it to the fullest. : escaping his black and white prison and being guided by the colors of the world. This project also aims to bring attraction cinema back to the viewer and to explore its concept in a more artistic form instead of narrative.
About the author
We are a team made up of 40 students from the Film, Video and Multimedia Communication course at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias and we are in the pre-production phase of our final short course. We aim to raise money to make our project real and win over our audience.
Team:
- Director: Diogo Bento
- 1st Assistant Director: João Trindade
- 2nd Assistant Director: Ana Lourenço
- Annotator : Maria Beatriz Castelo
- Production Director: Henrique Marques
- Production Coordinator: Maria Batista
- Production Manager: Rita Guerra
- 1st Production Assistant: Tomás Lourenço
- Art Director: Débora Paulino
- Chief Decorator: Madalena Rosa
- Art Assistants: Carlota Sempere, Tairine Rosa, Luiza Ferreira, Ruben Cruz, Roberta Lionello, Catarina Almeida
- Propist: Maria Carita
- Costume designer: Carlota Sempere
- Wardrobe Assistant: Mariana Cabanita
- Characterization: Ana Filipa Flor
- Director of Photography: Mariana Teixeira
- Camera Operator: Rodrigo Godinho
- Focus Puller: Mafalda Vaz
- 2nd Image Assistant: Diogo Palma
- Gaffer: Hugo Leça
- Lighting Assistants: Lara Figueiredo, Carlos Zenida, Diogo Valadares
- Chief Engineer: André Alves
- Machinist Assistant: Pedro Coimeira
- Video assistant: Diogo Palma
- Data Wrangler: Miguel Faustino
- Making Of: Joana Guerra
- Scene Photography: Rita Mata, Karinna de Gennaro
- Post-Production Coordinator: Daniel Fernandes
- Editor 1: Daniel Fernandes
- Editor 2: Rita Rodrigues
- Editing Assistant: Maria Carita
- Color Grading: Rafael Florencio, Ricardo Bacalhau
- Generics, Credits and Graphics: Hugo Leça
- Graphics Assistant: Inês Fernandes
- Marketing and Web Promotion: Edson Etaungo
- Creation of Promotional Materials: Bárbara Barbosa
- Trailer montage: João Trindade
- Editing making Of: Joana Guerra
- EPK: Madalena Rosa
- VFX: Madalena Rosa
- 2D/Stop Motion Animation: Joana Fernandes
- Cartoonist: Joana Fernandes, Carlota Sempere
Budget and due dates
Filming for our final short is scheduled for March 30th to April 3rd and to make it a reality we will need several resources to cover the needs of each department. It is an academic short film and we have partial funding from the faculty, even though it is an experimental project with high production costs, we resort to fundraising to make our dream come true. Help us make our dream come true!
Budget:
- Production Department : 1500€
- Image Department: 130€
- Art Department: 1000€
- Post-Production Department: 250€
- Marketing and Web Promotion: €450
- PPL commission: 7.5% + VAT
Scheduling:
- Pre-Production - January 24th to March 29th
- Production (Shooting) - March 30th to April 3rd
- Post-Production - April 5th to July 23rd
