The Coalition

This is an over the shoulder shot, of the murder scene. The intentions of this scene was to mislead the audience into thinking they were simply sharing a lovers embrace, however, Efah has a message from her imaginary friend, which tells her to stick the knife into Reece's stomach. The mood changes, when his facial expressions change, and he seems to be in pain. then the camera tilts, which is cinema language, and signifies to the audience that the world going out of the 'norm'. This shot subconsciously confuses the mind and puts you on edge, i believe this shot is very effective and is my favourite successful shot of the film so far, the background goes slightly out of focus and gives a eerie edge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOVdBPyjMlg

Following the events of the last couple of months, to ease my stress and make me laugh nearly everyone i know has called me Scarface, this is an obvious nickname due to the laceration on my face. i am going to use this constrictive behaviour from my peers and use it to create ideas to push our film forward. When making a film, or any kind of art, you use your life experience and social surroundings subconsciously and portray it through your work. Brian De Palma's Scarface is a film which I am more than familiar with, growing up watching this with my family, because it is one of my Fathers favourite films of all time, i feel privileged to use this childhood memory in my A2 work. By studying the first scene of the film, I believe that we could create a scene, by using it as a flash back, or introduction to our film. By placing me in an interview situation, with questions being thrown at me, will give a bit more background into the character and why she has killed her lover, and why she has a terrible scar on her face. By placing a scene in a section of the school, which i had seen in a previous production from former Westminster city school students, I'm going to take their initial ideas and create a scene suitable for our short film, i also feel that by using work from people i know who were also educated in our school by the same teachers, will show views how talented our students and teachers are.

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The contra zoom was going to be the 'money shot' but we experienced some complications, the skateboard was unstable, and controlling the camera on a moving bumpy surface proved very difficult.