Here is a basic template idea of how we intend to layout one of our review pages, we feel this will be a good way of laying out our review page as it will enable us to write a short review for our film, this will be much easier than writing a full page review for a short film. The three reviews at the bottom will be filled with our own reviews of other short films that we have watched from our short film research.
Recently we have been working on our production, of which
entails editing and filming the first part of our film. Some of the challenges
that we faced were putting our initial ideas into practice and doing what the
screenplay suggested to a level that we were happy with. Throughout the filming
process we decided that some minor changes would need to be taken into effect
such as multiple different shots all edited in to one scene such as when the
protagonist gets a call on Skype as opposed to one shot with little movement.
We decided that it would be more effective to have around three different
angles ranging from a mid-shot, to a high angle shot in the corner of the room
to a low angle shot of the protagonist. As a way to document these potential
changes after the fact we will create a third screenplay which will follow the
final product to the letter, the changes we have made will be evident in the comparison
between the second and the third screenplay, a document will accompany the
third which clearly lists the changes made.
After having consulted out focus group to see which REC symbol would look best for the handheld camera scenes, the images abvove were chosen to be the best, as opposed to these two images below;
During the editing process of our film it became clear that it would be necessary
to include static to represent the fact that the video camera is turning on
initially. We decided to do this by including a royalty free stock footage of
static to place in front of the first section that is filmed off of the
supposed antagonist’s video camera.
It may be possible to incorporate this in other sections of
the film such as having the camera stutter to give off more of an impression
that the killer has taped over the original film, this both shows the
antagonist as more of a villain and establishes the fact that this kill is not isolated.
This reinstates what it is we would like the scrapbook to present to the
audience.
We presented our focus group with two different pieces of
video static and from this they decided that this static is the most effective
and fits the film the best:
This static was also considered but rejected by the focus
group as they felt it was less effective than the aforementioned video static.
