Evaluation

EVALUATION

During this task, we chose to create a horror movie where a character falls asleep and ends up in the middle of nowhere he is then hunted down by a cloaked being. This idea was successfully displayed by the use of 2 very distinct locations, one (the really world) is set in a tunnel in an urban environment, the second was a wooded area with rubble and abandoned buildings. We decided to have the beginning and end to be shot at the same place therefore creating a circular narrative and have a twist at the end (the hooded character being in the real world) to get the viewer thinking about the ending thus ending the film on a cliff hanger. Overall our original idea translated well to screen with scenes in the storyboard being used almost exactly in the movie.

However in post production we decided to add effects that we did not plan for in pre-production such as filters for curtain scenes like the dream world having a blue filter to add to the depressing atmosphere the effect on screen being that most of the colour was dulled. For when the hooded figure was solely on screen we added a black and white filter to make the figure look more menacing. One of the areas of our film making the we need to improve is time management because we were still finishing the film the day it was due which meant we had to leave out things like sound effects which for a movie with no dialogue was need to propel / deepen the story.

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