T-14 FILM EXTRACT: toms evalution

Monday 2 March 2009

toms evalution

Evaluation

The film that we made was a crime/thriller film. This was influenced by the directors I like such as Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Smith. Films from these directors influenced by my film these films include “Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino 1993)”and “Severance (Smith 2006)” I thought that Severance (Smith 2006) was a good film to take notice of as there is a lot of scenes of running through a forest as this was the originally the plan for our film. I originally thought that a chase or getaway scene would be a good one to shot are there is a minimal plot so it is easy to follow in about two minutes and acting would be easy as you would just have to run about. One shoot type that we use that is a trade mark Tarantino shot was the shot from the boot. Another influence is “Deathproof (Tarantino 2007)” were some scenes are black and white and some are colour and the black and white is quite grainy and old fashioned. We decided to use this because we liked the contrast between scenes of colour and black and white and how you perceive the different scenes.

As the director it was my job to come up with the story line, the actual sequences and props this was quite important as we had no money to spend on this project so we ha to incorporate props that we already owned, we had to consider all of this when we were filming. In this process it was important that I had to keep in mind of location props and the zero budget for our film. Originally we story boarded this but as the story and script developed we did not redo the story board with I think would of helped us be more organized and helped everyone become clearer on what was going on as people in are group got confused about the order of the sequencing. Another thing that I knew I wanted to do early on was to include a variety of shot types, this included point of view shoots and close medium and long shots, I worked closely with the cinematographer to help achieve this. We did this to keep it interesting and change it up a bit. A good thing about the film is that is we started filming earlier as possible to give us as much time as we could, as we found that to film extra bits as we went along. We found that we needed a lot more footage than in our sequence. I also thought that madding are own soundtrack from scratch was good as we could get exactly what we wanted.

Something that we could have improved upon was the use of dialogue even though we filmed dialogue we did not use any in the final cut. We could have made more of an effort to make sure there was dialogue in some part of the film. Another thing that we could of thought about was the use of indoors filming as the first time we filmed it was sunny and had to put off filming twice due to the weather. If we could have incorporated indoors filming this would have not been a problem or if we had of got the filming all done in one day. We could have also of used more cuts in are film just to break it up more.

All in all I thought we made a good job of it, we started filming early as possible which was handy as we ended up needing all the available we had. I also think that we could have structured are film better and restructured it when we changed things.

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posted by AS Film Studies Students @ 07:13

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