Skip to main content

Whittling away

 Hey guys welcome back! The murder mystery, short film, we chose was called whittling away. This film features, a father, a grandmother, and a daughter. To start the scene, the daughter is shown at a deserted lake, which creates a suspenseful theme for the murder mystery. This is a great way to create engagement for the audience. The short film progress to a snippet of the girl drawing blood into the lake. The girl despaired for almost the whole duration the short film  until the plot twist at the end . The use of diegetic sound creates the outside scene for the characters. Our film will also use diegetic sound to create scene. As well as no diegetic sound for our credit scene. Just like the short film party to murder, “the whittling away” there is a plot twist. This startagy  is a great example of the other ways on how to execute one for our film. In the editing of this short film, it goes back-and-forth between the daughter and fathers point of view. If our group decided to do this for our film, we might take split screen into consideration, to show both characters perspectives simultaneously. Another thing we noticed. The whittling away short film does not focus enough to the build up of the mystery, for example the clues. While doing research I found that every successful murder mystery must include the clues that solve the mystery. These clues help incorporate the audience making them feel like they have a role in the plot. Our group looks forward to incorporating  the suspense that  the murder mystery genre has to offer. In our short film we will  focus on the built up of the suspense but always watching out to not  over do it, that can cause the audience to lose interest. That's all for now blog. Thank you.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Movie Conventions Research: A Quiet Place

What elements of the genre that you chose to base your final task on does this movie have?  The main element of the thriller genre that A Quiet Place has it’s the non-diegetic and diegetic sound. It’s mainly used to show what the characters are heading, and to highlight how quiet the world is, because of how loud those small movements are that we don’t tend to notice. Such as walking or placing down something on a shelf. There’s also non-diegetic sound, which is used to build suspense when there’s climax’s of action. My group will use diegetic and non-diegetic sound to also have this element. What elements of the genre did the movie have that you like?  In A Quiet Place the monsters that are hunting them are almost never directly shown. They’re shown in blurs and just in sound. You know there is danger, but you don’t know who or what’s behind it. It’s one of the elements my group enjoyed within this movie. It builds the suspense, because you draw your own conclusions and the u...
Post a Comment
Read more

Storyboard Blog

 Scene 1: Establishing shots of the new home Scene 2: Shot of the kitchen scenery Scene 3: Shot of the bedroom  Scene 4: Lingering shot of the pool Scene 5: Car is shown and it goes off Scene 6: Girl wakes up, turns off the car, it goes off again, she turns it off again. Scene 7: Girl has headphones in and is making toast. Scene 8: Long shot of an unknown person watching the girl eat the toast from outside the window. Scene 9: Girl is on phone with her friend. Scene 10: The friend on the other side of the phone. Scene 11: Girl starts cleaning the house to get it ready for her friend. Scene 12: There’s a knock at the door and the door is shown. Scene 13: Girl welcomes her friend, they go get ready for the pool. Scene 14: They’re chatting at the pool and having fun.  Scene 15: A knife is taken from the knife holder. Scene 16: The girls come inside and notice the missing knife. It’s quickly brushed off. Scene 17:  The girls say bye and the door closes. Scene 18: The gir...
Post a Comment
Read more

Shattered Bonds- Short Film Package

Website URL:  https://carleightripp.wixsite.com/shatteredbondsthemov Postcard URL:  https://www.canva.com/design/DAF9h_ZtDW0/QOwn16UnE4a4AZZubdnoFQ/view?utm_content=DAF9h_ZtDW0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor Short Film Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6T2SxUz89E   Please Enjoy!! I am so beyond sad that everything is now complete and filming is over. It truly was such a blast to be able to film so much with my friends and make a pretty good short film. I will miss the process of filming this short film. There were many ups and downs but overall the experience in A level media has been a fun process and I am proud of how hardworking me and my group were making this short film. 
Post a Comment
Read more