We first set out and started planning our story by brainstorming ideas and then storyboarding. We were then sent out to start filming clips, which made up our narrative. As a group, we made sure that we shot various different angles of the same scene so as to be able to edit scenes and have different angles and views.
The shot which I particularly like was the ones where Bien had her glasses pulled down a bit so we could see her eyes and in the reflection of the glasses you could see her poker hand which is quite a good hand which helps mislead the viewers. The reason I liked this shot is because it wasn’t deliberate but seems to be, it’s a very precise angle that helps connote a lot to people.
There were a few shots that weren’t particularly the best due to the audio; the background sounds didn’t go with the mood, which we were trying to create. The solution to this problem was final cut pro as you can cut out the background sounds. Although you can do this whilst we were editing our footage we didn’t concentrate on doing it that much and ended up leaving it in which stopped the overall atmosphere being as tense as we would have liked. This is something we can and will improve in future projects.
The editing of our short scene went particularly well as we had a lot of clips of the same scene that actually fitted together quite nicely. Our editing was continuous and smooth, which helps viewing immensely. The films editing overall was completed to a standard, which I am very pleased with.
Although this practice was for filming practice, we still included elements of mise – en – scene such as props and costume. When we first brainstormed our ideas in the first lesson, we wrote down objects which could help us to set the scene and build up the suspense, these included sunglasses, a bow tie, a throw for the table, cards (which were provided by our teacher), boots and so on. This helped give us a greater incite of mise - en- scene as we could see that without props or costume the story is portrayed in a different light and can be harder to understand.
The part of our film that created the most suspense i would have to say is the part were it flicks back and forth from the two main characters. This creates suspense as you can see the fear in each of the characters eyes and you want to know who the winner is. This is a vital part of a thriller film and i am actually very happy of how effective it actually is.
As a group we tried to use conventions from real thriller films such as Alfred Hitchcokes 'The Shining'. We used low angle shots at the begining to just show the characterts boots to build tention as you wouldnt know who they were. After that we used very eye-level shots to enable the viewer to think that both characters had a shot to win this tatical game.
Once we had all finished editing we were shown all of our classes' short films. All were very good, some even funny! As a class we were all appreciative of eachothers work which was less nerve racking. Once my groups film was shown we got positive feedback from both the rest of the class and Andrew the only thing that we were told we could improve our short film by putting sound effects into it.
Overal I had great fun making the short film and my group were fantastic at being in, being on time and just being on point all the time. I am really pleased with the way that we produced our film and the process leading up to the final piece.
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