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Film Review 2

I added the award that the film could get into the top left corner to attract the audience into reading the review as well as I put the text colour to red so that it would stand out. I also added the page number underneath to make it seem more realistic. I also added a white box behind the quote so that the quote was easier to read, as well as I added the name of the person who said the quote. Overall, I am much more pleased with this edit as it looks much more professional.

Second Edit

• The reason I made my film black and white was due to the fact I wanted to achieve the 'film noir' look therefore this meant that it would make my film look more dramatic and intriguing.

•  I used a distorted sounds to create an edgy, disturbing sound track that would keep the audience at suspense throughout and so that my audience wouldn't get bored half way through my short film. 

• I also used a forest sound effect for the effect of diegetic sound and can make the audience feel a if they are in and part of the frame/scene that is on screen which therefore makes the audience feel more on edge and engaged until the end so that they can find out what happens to the main character. 

• I also used ambient noise to have an 'impact crash' on the door which again makes the audience feel as if they are part of the scene/frame thus leaving them scared and on edge.

• I used repetition of sounds not to be lazy but to connote signs of insanity as well as adds elements of schizophrenia to the audience.

• I took the scene where the alter ego of my character walks towards himself due to the fact i couldn't get the right affect for it to look as if he was flickering from side to side, however instead it just looked unprofessional and unedited.

• I added a flash to when my character falls back from seeing his alter ego as it makes it seem as if he dies, leaving the audience in suspense.

• I used flashes as transitions to make it seem more effective and 'psychotic'.

• I used a soundtrack in the second half to add effect instead of keep repeating sound effects, so that my audience would get bored and annoyed with the same sounds throughout.

• I added the title of my film and credits to my short film to make it look more professional as well as they are a vital part to a short film that completes it, otherwise it looks unfinished.

• I used silence at some points to create tension within my audience as it usually indicates something is about to happen.

Second Shoot

For my second shoot I decided to work in the art room where I could choose whether my shots would be dark or light (high and low key lighting), however I chose to also use a spotlight so that the camera could pick up on what I wanted to film. It would also be able to create the silhouette look I was trying to create in some points of my shots as well as I used it to create the flickering effect of the lights, therefore creating an eerie, horror atmosphere. Whilst trying to create the flickering effect the spotlight would sometimes glitch and let out a massive flash which on one of the shots, completed the shot as I wanted the silhouette to appear the drastically disappear and as I was shooting the silhouette to disappear the light glitches and I would say it is one of my best shots as it followed exactly how I wanted it to go.


We started the first shot with my actor George on the floor as the transitions of my film are for my persona to wake up in an unknown dark, isolated place and be highly confused as to what is going on around him. Therefore, in my first shoot we worked in the woods and then in my second shoot I decided to work in an non escapable dark room (similar to the idea of saw however without the torture scenes). I also used a lot of POV shots throughout this shoot to present the persona's emotions much more clearly as well as the many stages of panic of which he encounters.

First shoot

For my first shoot I decided to film in a woods to fit in with the eerie feel I wanted my film to give off to my target audience; due to from my research analysis of films most horrors or twisted films are filmed either at some point in a woods, dark alley or an abandoned/isolated house which then straight away gives on the 'unsafe' atmosphere to the audience that the persona that they are watching on screen is in soon to be danger.

Luckily enough I was allowed to borrow a friend's canon camera which had an option of 'film' on settings which makes everything you film much more clearer and film quality like; therefore this helped massively towards the outcome to my final shots as they came out much clearer and precise.

I was also able to a shoulder mount so that everything I recorded whilst moving (such as when my persona wakes up in the tree) wouldn't be shaky unless I intended it to be, which i pretty much used the whole way throughout filming as it completed the majority of my shots as it made them come out much clearer and stable therefore this meant that I wouldn't have load of shots that I wouldn't be able to include or use at all.



I also used a tripod throughout filming so that my camera work would not be shaken in the slightest, some of my shots had canted angles to give off the eerie feel and to present to the audience that there is beginning to be something wrong in the storyline. However other than that all my shots were not shaken and went the way in which I hoped they would come out.

In these shots shown on the right the tripod and camera were placed with autofocus as George ran up and down within the walkway as he was going to run after his 'other persona' then freak out and run away from his 'other persona' so we filmed about a minute of him running up and down the walkway so that we would have multiple shots that we could choose from and cut out all of the bits that we didn't need instead of keep having to back to the woods and reshooting loads of little bits, making it tedious and unnecessary when we could reshoot bits all at once and make the best out of the day which we got with the best lighting we possibly could of got in a woods.

Film Poster: Second Edit

This is my second idea of my film poster; I think that it looks much more professional as i have gotten rid of the age certificate due to it making my last poster childish as it didn't fit in with the colour scheme.

Also the typography in which i was using was the same for everything such as the title, slogan and credits; therefore i decided that for the credits that I would use the stereotypical typography which you see on every film posters credits. As for the film title and the slogan the typography I was using was seen to the audience as 'too feminine' for the film in which I was trying to picture to the audience; therefore this then lead me to not pick any normal font from photoshops choices, I decided to go further by searching on 'Da font' where you can download fonts for a more serious toned font which is where I found the font that i have used on my final second edit.

As well as, I decided to only use one picture of my character on my second edit as one my first one the two different pictures of my character made it look unprofessional as well as they were off colour with each other. One of them looked very airbrushed even though I had not even used the airbrush tool at all throughout creating the poster and the other picture of the character was too dark compared to the other one. Therefore, through making my second poster I decided to only use one picture and to place my character off centre to present to my audience that my storyline will have some sort of twist to it.

FILM REVIEW 1

This is my first draft for my film review, I have been influenced by empire film reviews and I have adopted the three column layout. The picture takes up 40% of the page and the text takes up 60% this is a common convention within film reviews. The name of the film is the largest piece of text the audience will see and a teaser quote uses alliteration and a different colour of text to make it stand out.