Monday 4 June 2018

Film Evaluation

My short film is a shocking thriller aimed to make the audience watch with anticipation and excitement. My film is about a young woman named Robyn, who is lonely and love-deprived and has not been socialised correctly. She does not understand love and seduction, so therefore in an attempt to create a bond with a beautiful girl that she sees at the train station one morning, she stalks her and follows her through the town centre, and finally has the courage to ask her to take a walk with her. Robyn and Delilah, the other girl, go for a walk through the fields and lay down together, talking and flirting. Robyn, an outcast and introvert does not understand the means of safety, which leads her to believe that she must carry a weapon around with her to protect herself, and to keep her away from potentially dangerous/scary situations. As the girls chat, Robyn gets the wrong impression and goes in or a kiss to which Delilah kindly refuses - but - because of Robyn's nature and unsocialised condition, she takes out a weapon on Delilah and chases her, taking hold of her and bringing the knife up and forces it down upon Delilah's back. The next morning, Robyn is at the train station and missed the train again and see's Deliah walk past her just as she did the previous morning leaving the audience to wonder if she did kill Delilah, or if it was all a trick playing her mind. My aim for this film was to create a cathartic experience for the audience member and to create a fake portrayal of Robyn as a character, to show the audience the message of my film which is to not judge a book by its cover, and to never trust people you don't know.  I believe that my film could have been improved in many ways; one of which would be to focus on pre-production a lot more before filming as I had many issues with the plot, scenes and visuals.  I found that when filming the scenes the first time around, many of the scenes seemed pointless and mundane, whereas in refilming there was more interaction between the two characters and more opportunity for interaction between the two characters and for character development too.  Another problem I had when filming is that the scenes did not stick to the script and were mostly improvisation, however, to fix this issue I did have to rewrite an entire script which helped with filming, but was time-consuming and put a set back on my filming and production. If I were to do this again, I would take into consideration my time limit, scene list and shots, script idea and plotline and characterisation. I would rethink as to which areas are suitable to film in and would make sure that my scene lists were detailed enough and well planned. Overall, I think that my film and overall process and division could have been a lot more precise and less time consuming, and next time would take my time limits into consideration a lot more than I did originally.

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