One Minute Film - The Interrogation - Lesson 4

This was the last official lesson we had to film and edit, and we still had a few important scenes to film. We spent this last lesson filming the second half of our 1 minute film, which is the climax and the scenes that reveal the most. Once again we took many retakes with different camera angles each time. We varied the shots as much as possible so that the audience can see the situation from many different perspectives, as well as this we also played with the levels. For the scene where we focused on the exchange of the gun we had the camera on the tripod set on the table and angled it so that it faced down onto the table (birds eye-view) personally I think that this was very effective, especially when Smart added in the sound effects.

Screenshots from the birds-eye view:

Furthermore this lesson we also added in flashbacks and scenarios of what happened, this was also another way of conveying to the audience what was going through the suspects mind, without the use of narratives, but having parts of it visually shown to them, this also makes the think more about the situation. We used the black and white effect for the flashbacks, as this makes it clear to the audience that it is from the past. I think that in this lesson we got the most done and learnt the most out of it. 

However although we have the first half filmed and edited, the editing of the second part Smart did in his own time, this is definitaly and aspect that we can improve one: Finishing on the deadline.