The first brief BA Film & Media Arts Production students work on in the Film Production Skills module is 'Everyday Activity' brief. Students are asked to pick an everyday activity (i.e. Meeting the parents of your partner, Making a cup of tea, having a shave, walking the dog, catching the bus etc) and use the language and dynamics of ‘cinema’ to transform this scene. This could be to evoke drama/ adventure, enhance tension, be sensual, question ‘norms’, make a social/ political statement....
See link below for examples from films including Ratcatcher, Big Shave and Barbie.
Everyday Activity - Examples from Previous Years
My Fucking Mental Everyday Life Project
This is a short student film which i made at the start of my university course. thanks to josh clark, Richard fisher for helping out during the filming process.
This film made me turn my phone sound off
An apathetic man faces the psychological turmoil of using a home blood test kit in a sparse, claustrophobic bathroom.
Uploaded by CasualHipsterIDEK on 2017-11-24.
Everyday activity Created by George Payne Staring Alex Payne
Short film made for uni. Starring Shane Geen Directed and edited together by Alex Shepherd
A short film I made based around an everyday event.
Some more examples from the Everyday Activity brief, from previous years
In Britain, we all love a cuppa.
Uploaded by Explorer Buddies on 2017-11-24.
Short everyday activity made for a Uni Project