Techniques and Further Research From Audience Feedback

When receiving feedback from my class on my short film, one individual picked up on the hand held camera action that happened within it and that it reminded them of when they watched Cloverfield. I then decided it would be a good idea to look into the film as it may benefit my short film, so therefore I researched into the trailer. I realised that the way they used the handheld camera within the film or what was used in the trailer, was in the same technique that I wanted mine to benefit the audience, to show the persona's panic within the situation that they are put in, as well as in a sense it breaks the fourth wall and engages the audience to a higher level as the audience then feel as if they are part of the situation or they are watching over a real life event therefore they are going to engage into the film to a more serious level and more than likely will be engaged until the end of the film as they will be curious to what happens to the persona that hopefully I hook them onto.

As well as the idea of the alter ego/clones reminded them of the film 'Moon' as the film is based on an astronaut that goes up to space however as he progresses throughout his mission he begins to find clones of himself. As he asks the machine which has been looking after him throughout the mission why there is a clone of him the machine responds by telling him it must be a figure of his imagination which is what I was trying to achieve in my short film, that the person hallucinates an alter ego/clone of himself. As well as the more clones that he finds the more he begins to panic and become confused within the storyline, which is what happens in my narrative however they are alive every time my persona see's himself however every time he begins somewhere new, he begins to get closer to himself so that he can try and find out what is going on and why the other version of himself exists however it is only part of his schizophrenia/paranoia.

The techniques I used throughout my short film which made it effective and how I wanted it to be was to confuse the audience by using amateur handheld shots then to professional, film like shots which then creates intensity within the narrative. I then used the lighting/effects to create a flickering/jittering effect to create tension and suspense as well as the intense sound effects which are used in many other films to build up the audience for a big thing that is about to happen in the narrative.