These are the two videos he asked us to look out before viewing the film:
Some aspects (such as casting and the budget) were slightly irrelevant because they were on a much larger scale than we will be doing for our course work but I think they were still very interesting worth watching. Other parts of the videos, like the script break down and the shot list/storyboard were more valuable to me when thinking about filming my own preliminary task and opening sequence.
Bellow is the video we had to watch:
The video was made on a £1000 budget and most of the film crew were members of Ryan Connolly’s family or his friends and were trained by him. With this in mind I think it was a VERY good short film!
The film contains a wide range of different camera angle and shots which help to contribute to the effectiveness of the film. It shows a range of different views of the same thing so the audience can get all angles of the scene. This helps to make the film seem more real and it isn't ruined by silly mistakes, i.e. the shots of the same things from different angle show the actor in the same position or objects in the same place to keep the realism. Also, the shots were filmed in a very clever way; they built up tension slowly before revealing the drama so that it didn't give away the story too early and made it more dramatic and exciting.
I think the other significant part of the film that helped to draw in the audience was the sound. The sound helped to build up the tension and created a lot of suspense. On the parts where he wanted the audience to believe something bad was going to happen Connolly added loud 'booming' music to the camera shots. This helped the film to sound dramatic and emphasised the scary parts even more as it went silent as the scary shots came into view. He also ensured that not all the loud bits ended in scary or jumpy shots to lure the audience into a false sense of security. He did a couple of scary bits with normal background sounds or no music to catch the audience off guard and have a bigger impact.
Finally, he left the film on a bit of a cliff hanger, we don't know what happened to the murderer or if he was a murderer after all as we don't see any confirmation that either victim is dead and we see the victim in the bath tub raise her hand toward the end. Although, some people don't like cliff hangers I think in this case it was good because it meant I was free to conclude the film how I liked. (And I didn't fancy seeing a half dead woman getting out a bath tub).
To see more opinions on 'Tell' visit Mr Buckamster's blog and read the comments bellow the video 'Tell'.
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