MICRODRAMA: FINISHED FILM + REFLECTION

MICRODRAMA: FINISHED FILM + REFLECTION


The Best part of editing we did was the Ending in which we made the titles look like blood spilling, linking in with the slasher drama we produced, It had fading text that disappeared and splatting blood, this i thought made the film look very professional

Obviously one of the main reasons of a horror film is to make the audience jump/ be scared. We though of many ways in doing this. We took into account what Danny Cohen said at the York film festival; natural light is a mans best friend.

So when Started the scene off in the Dark where you couldn't see me, the murderer (shot above). Then turned the light on, revealing me to the audience to create a shock you might of seen coming. I thought this was really effective, Never the less it could of been more effective if i was nearer the victim creating more of a certain death situation. It also could of been more scary if we had more shot variety and a POV it missed key elements to make it that even more scary. This is shown in psycho shower scene Alot of shot variety           make murder scenes alot more realistic and scary!

We Used a High angles shot early on in the film to hint that the characters are very vulnerable and a hint that later on in the film something may happen. In many horror films this happens, little clues that something just isn't quite right, this can also be acheieved by a Dutch angle which we missed an opportunity to use, which i think i will definitely use in a future project.

We used hints through the whole film to suggest that someone lived in the house (this been the reason for the killings). We used it here very well with the dialogue in the drama. saying (Lads we got loads of food!) suggesting someone lives here.

Another thing we tried to do was show at the start of the film something scary on the TV however through technical difficulties couldnt find a horror movie. This is used in alot of scary films, showing horrors to give a hint to the audience. However we found something 'sci-fi' which was the best we could find it worked well because it showed someone had been in the house very recently which gives you a chill up the spine.

Again we took into account the lighting. It look perfect for this shot as it shows a dark basement from it point of view. it looks scary somewhere you wouldn't want to go. it definately creates an atmosphere, used in most movies with natural lighting.

Here we showed the hand of the murderer with blood on his hands Signifies hes killed the victim, without showing him dead. It adds great effect and i think it's a great way to end the scene. However we realised from advice an even better way to end the scene would to cut from the light been switched of to someone putting a drink down in the next scene

We then did another scene to try make the viewer scared this time showing the Killers legs, so you know what coming, this creates a real scare for the audience! we closed the fridge and revealed the characters body.

one bad part of the film was the first murder scene, it was way too un-realistic, it just didn't work. The actual axing of the charachter showed no blood and was just too amateur. We tried to make it more realistic by adding effects to it like the stabbing sound effect. Although that added more of a comic element which we didn't want

All in all i think for a first effort we did really well to create such a good micro-drama for a first effort. We have learnt many things we should do in our next project from mistakes we have made in this one. It was definately a great learning curve doing this micro-drama