Merry and Shannon final film

Marking of our final film

Merry's Comments:

I think my film deserves a grade of 5 because I think eventually the film worked well, and we have produced a good piece of work, however our planning was not as good as it should have been, therefore it was difficult for us to follow a shot list and script.

Mark for Merry as Editor: by Merry, I think as an editor, I would get a mark of 5 also because as I was acting in the film as well, i didn't have as much input into the shots as i should have and therefore it was more difficult for me to edit, however overall I think the editing looks good.

Mark for Shannon as Cinematographer:




Marking my role in relation to the mark scheme

Merry Editor- Total 29/30

A    Planning and Research       8/10
I think my planning was well carried out, I did a lot of research into films and looked at how they were edited and how the shot types worked with this. Examples of these films were the Orphanage and the Sixth Sense, I looked for many conventions of a horror films in these.  I also edited a practice ghost film to understand how the process worked.

C    Professional and Technical Skills    6/10
I think I made good use of the resources and technology which were available to me, however I think my organisational skills let me down. I do think that I made good use of the time I had to edit the film and used the programs effectively and to a good standard.

D   Effective Use of Film Language    8/10
I think because of the research we did before making our film, I knew how horror films are edited and what types of shots were commonly used (Lots of close ups, fast cuts), therefore I think that my use of film language is effective and good.

E    Originality and Creativity   7/10
I think that I knew the conventions of the horror film and therefore my originality was not as much as it would have been if perhaps I had challenged the conventions, however given the time frame I think we were sensible to stick to these conventions.



Merry's Rationale:

Film title is the portrayal of a young girl with an inquisitive mind; she enters a house and encounters a lot of mysterious and unexplainable things inside. The film's intent was to stick closely to the conventions of a ghost film and having done extensive research it was clear that a young, naive girl was necessary to achieve my intentions of continuing the traditional aspects of a horror film. Secondly, I have realized that editing has a huge impact on the pace and tension of a horror film; I made it my intention to achieve this through careful planning and imaginative shot types. 


Shannon's Rationale:

Film

 Rationale; The film follows an inquisitive young girl who enters a house in which strange things begin to happen. As cinematographer the idea was to stick rather strictly to the stereotypical conventions of a horror film and so we thought it would be best for the main character to be a young innocent looking girl. To follow this innocent look, as is seen in many horror films I intend to film some shots from a high angle to reinforce this innocence.

I think my film deserves a grade 5 as the overall result has worked well and we have produced a fairly good short film however, as it is a short film it is difficult to make the story line really interesting and so the whole film may not be that interesting to watch.

I think my role as cinematographer deserves a 5 or a 6 as most shots I believe are framed well and are from and angle or point of view to have the highest effect whether to bring us emotionally to the character or to make the audience scared. The composition and framing of most shots I think are also mostly quite well framed to show what we wanted to show and to hide what we wanted to hide. However, some of the shots could be shot so they were more interesting, from different angles or more close-ups.

Planning and Research. I think that I planned and researched well. In the lead up to making the film I studied a lot of films similar to the conventions we wanted to follow in our film such as the sixth sense and the orphanage. In these films I researched the different camera angles and which ones of these seemed most prominent and most effective in the films and tried to transfer these into our film. This picture shown below is an example of one of the shots I really liked in the film 'The Orphanage'. I really like the composition and framing in this shot as the use of the framing here includes the walls and emphasises the innocence of the little boy by making him look so small and helpless.

I also shot some scenes for another horror movie to practice the different hot types needed. 8/10

Professional and technical skills. I think I had quite good use of technical skills. I used the skills we had previously been taught as cinematographer, the different shots we can use with the camera, focusing the camera correctly, zooming in and focusing on aspects in the background the emphasis certain aspects of the shot. 7/10

Effective use of film language. I think as I researched a lot of horror movies before making our film I knew a lot of the shot types that were often used in horror films ( lots of close-ups and tightly framed shots) and so I think the film does have effective use of film language however it is not scary enough to have full use of film language. 7/10

Originality and creativity.

I think there are enough different shots that also stick to the conventions to make the film original. However, for the film to be more original the conventions of a horror film would need to be challenged more however I think with the time frame and resources the film is quite original with the use of different shots that hold the attention of the audience.8/10