Our film is in the sub genre of a Crime Thriller. The conventions of a thriller are fear of the unknown; shadowy lighting; flashback; crime; outside the law; mystery; death and an eerie location.
At the beginning of our film we showed a van coming from far away in the night as it helps the audience start to feel anticipation. When the van reaches us, we see a shot of the main character reaching for something in the boot, but as the audience are not shown what was taken out it is unclear what he is doing, creating the aspect of fear of the unknown until it shows him dragging the body bag through a woodland. We used a flashback to further the narrative and show the audience how the main character got into this situation. We felt the kitchen scene during the flashback should show the main character and a female character in the front of the shot so that when the abrupt looking man comes out behind her she is unaware, leading the audience to believe he killed her however we decided not to show him killing her to give a sense of mystery as to whether or not she is in the body bag and the audience is left to make an assumption about their relationship.
Van coming from far away.
I was the Editor in my group which involved me using editing style; techniques; and I played an important role adding the sounds to fit the shots. It was important to make sure the film was continuous and flowed in order to make the narrative further on as our film was from the middle of a Crime Thriller. We used video transitions like fade in/fade out to show a change in time which helps show the narrative is moving on. The video transitions meant I could put in jump cuts between the digging scenes in the woodland so the film could jump between a mid shot of the man digging to a close up of the spade going into the ground, this was an important learning development as it meant using the transition not only showed a change in time, but we were shown in detail the main characters actions and using single source lighting which created an eerie mood.
At the beginning of our film we showed a van coming from far away in the night as it helps the audience start to feel anticipation. When the van reaches us, we see a shot of the main character reaching for something in the boot, but as the audience are not shown what was taken out it is unclear what he is doing, creating the aspect of fear of the unknown until it shows him dragging the body bag through a woodland. We used a flashback to further the narrative and show the audience how the main character got into this situation. We felt the kitchen scene during the flashback should show the main character and a female character in the front of the shot so that when the abrupt looking man comes out behind her she is unaware, leading the audience to believe he killed her however we decided not to show him killing her to give a sense of mystery as to whether or not she is in the body bag and the audience is left to make an assumption about their relationship.
Van coming from far away.I was the Editor in my group which involved me using editing style; techniques; and I played an important role adding the sounds to fit the shots. It was important to make sure the film was continuous and flowed in order to make the narrative further on as our film was from the middle of a Crime Thriller. We used video transitions like fade in/fade out to show a change in time which helps show the narrative is moving on. The video transitions meant I could put in jump cuts between the digging scenes in the woodland so the film could jump between a mid shot of the man digging to a close up of the spade going into the ground, this was an important learning development as it meant using the transition not only showed a change in time, but we were shown in detail the main characters actions and using single source lighting which created an eerie mood.
Showing the single source lighting from car lights.
We worked to further the narrative, character and genre we decided a flashback would be a good idea in between the digging scenes to show an insight of how the main character came to digging a grave in the woodland. We developed the character using no dialogue, which meant there was more emphasis on his actions and the genre of Crime Thriller. We developed our genre as we decided to use some of the typical conventions of thrillers which helped show the extent of the crime.
Flashback scene, showing abrupt looking man.
There were certain shots we wanted to use such as close ups, pan, long shots, mid shots, over the shoulder shots, track forward and an establishing shot. We changed our plans slightly on which shot type to use to focus on what was happening in the scene but kept to most of our plan. We changed having no non-diegetic sound and added a small electronic sound to the flashback to add eeriness and it was subtle in between the diegetic kitchen sounds we added.
Close up showing detail of digging scenes.
Close up of man in car, to identify main character.
I wanted the transitions to signify a change in time showing the narrative had moved on. I wanted to show the characters state of mind when he is digging, so placing the flashback in an important place shows the audience not only what happened to the female character but suggests his thoughts and feelings are being shown.
Close up allowing audience to see his emotions before the flashback scene occurs.
The feedback we received showed us the decisions we chose, made our film quite successful. Some feedback told us the pan shot when the man is walking from the woods to the van then continuing from the van to the woods with a spade was very good. When the man comes close to the camera then goes into a long shot was a very good technique that worked well. A criticism of our sequence was some of the sounds were not in sync with the film showing me the importance of technical skills and I worked on making the sound fit with the action so it held the audiences suspension of disbelief.
Man walking from woods to van and back in a pan movement.
The skills involved in creating our film helped us develop the choices we wanted to make. From editing I was able to cut unwanted scenes and choose scenes suitable for the film, to give it the suspicious atmosphere that can occur in crime thrillers. Using film transitions to create a change of narrative and got rid of all original sound then added any sound that resembles the action from using different parts of a sound clip; like in the digging scene it shows the sound is not on a loop and creates a realistic effect as the digging sounds vary.
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