My Film is called ‘The Flashback’ and is a drama; I liked
the genre drama as I felt it held the potential for creative camera work and
lighting. The film is about a woman who is thinking about her past life with
her boyfriend, so the film flashbacks to show scenes of their life. However he
abused her and she ended up murdering him so we discover she is in fact at his
funeral. This story differs from the original pitch because in the original story
a wife murdered her husband and she is standing over a fire that is burning photographs
of her and her husband together; she was also in her wedding dress. This plan
changed however due to health and safety and we couldn't get a wedding dress. I
took the role of director, camera crew/cinematographer and casting director.
Casting
My aim as the casting director was to pick actors who I felt
best suited the role, I chose my friend Toby to play the abusive boyfriend as I
felt he could portray a good love interest for the start of the movie but he
also had a dark quality about him which I thought worked well for the abusive
part. In my original casting I cast my friend Freya as the girlfriend, I chose
her because I felt that if she took her nose rings out I could style her to
look really innocent and play the romantic part at the start and for the end
add the nose rings and style her to look more ‘punk’ like someone who has gone
through bad times. However she dropped out last minute and I needed to find
someone, anyone to play the part and I landed with my other friend Rhiannon
(who, considering I sprung the role on her last minute, I felt she pulled of
the part really well)
Cinematography
My aim as the camera crew/cinematographer was to reveal the
story in a stylized way. I used a slow panning to reveal the characters as I felt
a slow reveal would allow the audience to take in what they were watching and
understand the relationships and information they were given. I also used close
ups to show emotion on the faces of my actors and to give narratives like the
poison and the rest in peace sign. Finally I used an upwards tilt and a push in
to slowly reveal the death of the boyfriend so the audience can again process
what has happened and so they can collectively come to the conclusion that she
murdered him. The shots of the hit I chose to do two high angle shots, one
facing the girl just before the hit and the other facing the boy as he hits
her. I used high angle shots so the characters are inferior to the audience and
therefor the audience doesn't feel like they’re in the action and feel
threatened but as if they are spectators to the action and feel powerless in
helping the situation. I considered doing a POV shot from both characters
points of view but decided against it as that would put the audience in the
character shoes and I wanted them to remain spectators to the entire situation throughout
the movie.
Sound
In regards to the sound of the movie I didn't want any
speaking, just a song to carry the mood of the film along. I did this because I
feel that music is better at structuring and conveying emotion than speech,
unless there is a brilliant script writer of course but neither me or my
partner were skilled script writers and I
didn't want bad speech to distract from the emotion of the film. I was originally
going to use the song ‘Get It Right’ by Adam Anders but after creating the
movie I found that the tempo of the song was too fast and didn't match the mood
of the movie. The song I ended with is called ‘My Immortal’ by Evanescence,
this song was better suited as it was much slower and it builds but doesn't lose
the emotion behind it like I felt ‘Get It Right’ does.
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