Evaluation Question - 1

Evaluation Question 1

Throughout our film I believe we carried out the continuity and development of continuity to a good and very reasonable standard. When watching our film back there tends not to be major continuity errors, there are some errors which are very slightly noticeable and throughout our audience feedback we noticed one or two of the candidates picked up on these. One major issue that we picked up on whilst trying to film our shots was filming them on different days, as we are in college the clothes varied from day to day in what we were wearing. Most days we would have planned to bring in the correct clothes but other days when we needed to add in shots we found the difficulty of being able to film. There is one point in our film when you can notice the different clothes. This is when Jamie is walking into college the day after he goes missing from Jordan’s House. As he walks into the lift he has skinny jeans on, when he walks out of the lift he has Nike joggers on. This is not a major problem because both the jeans and the joggers have a dark sense to them, so you cannot really notice unless you are paying attention to the bottoms Jamie is wearing. This does not affect the quality of our film even though they could have been easily corrected. There was no need for us to break any continuity rules as the narrative of our film didn’t need it.

 

We chose the film genre drama to base our storyline on, and the genre, being drama, showed some very challenging aspects of filming and adding the ‘drama’ feel to the content of our 5 minute film. For example, from my experience with dramas, they tend to contain mostly adult characters, this was a cause for concern with our group as we have only teenage characters as we are all still in college. Adults can add more depth to their acting and can bring more to the scene as they have more experience to bring to the camera work and there is more to talk about which is very useful in dramas. For example the 1972 film ‘God father’ is one of the most widely known dramas of all time and this film only contained adult actors which gave the film more depth as they can act on a deeper level, compared to our film which all the characters are teenagers and no adults are seen at any time.

I feel like our film generally followed the criteria of a 'thriller drama' and other than having young actors didn't really challenge the well-known aspects of a drama film. Drama films tend to have some dark sense throughout, it can include; death, revenge, tragedy etc. I feel like our film includes a lot of these dark related themes (Our main character is being stalked and dies at the end of the film). Our film leaves a cliff hangar and leaves the audience wondering why this has happened to Jamie, and why did he have to die. The ending to our film took a lot of thought and is very fitting to the Drama side of the film industry. Throughout our film there are many situations which may appear as quite confusing to the audience, and have a sense of mysteriousness. We did this on purpose to leave points for twists and turns to easily come along in the film. We don't have much dialog throughout the film and always try to keep the stalkers face hidden which again adds more mysteriousness to the film. When Jamie is screaming and is locked away in the room at the end of the film, it adds a real sense of shock and scare to the film.

Throughout our film I believe that multiple scenes are very good at tension building, scenes where Jamie is just walking around or being followed can be amazing for tension building as anything can happen at any moment throughout those particular scenes. For example someone could jump out on Jamie or Jamie could be scared in any other way. We use rhythmic editing at the end of our film to up the pace when Jamie is trapped inside the room. Jamie believes there is a presence with him inside the room and is trying to get out, so we start to speed up the cuts and make Jamie look like he is panicking a lot more than he is. Rhythmic editing was very useful for us to exaggerate the mood of our characters. I believe the ending to our film is the best part and I am convinced this is the part of the film which will make the audience want to see more. It can add a dramatic effect to the film also.