I feel that the short film "Confined" was a reasonably successful as we planned to create something challenging and ambitious. I personally feel that we achieved this task. When looking back on the final edit I noticed several parts that were not at the standard I was expecting. I feel that the short film has little technical flaws however when viewing the film on a projector I believe that the lighting in the fight scene was poor, as it was not clear to see from a spectators point of view. The scene was too dark and did not give enough impact for the audience. Our aim was for this to be a key scene that would concrete the complex narrative however I do not feel that this scene did our idea justice. Apart from this, the technical elements of our film were near professional standards. The soundtrack was recorded from a piano and then edited on a soundtrack programme. This shows our drive to do more than what was expected when creating the film.
I do not feel that our piece suffered aesthetically as I strongly believe that the overall look of "Confined" is professional, however one improvement that would be changed if I were to complete this unit again would be the narrative. I feel that the style and feel of the storyline was too ambitious for us as a group, especially as we tried to put across a complex story to an audience without much scripting/dialogue. A key strength aesthetically would be the continuity of our film; the fear scenes can prove this. Within “Confined” there are three fears, each of these elements are shown with a glitchy, fast paced/cut style. Each fear also had a vignette that added to the dream like scenarios, the rest of the footage had no vignette which essentially represents reality (See Below).
vignette Represents Fear Scenes
No Vignette Represents Reality
Short films do not follow many codes and conventions, apart from the length of the film. We followed this convention. We also tried to create a film that could easily be recognisable as a short film. We aimed to create an original unheard of storyline and also targeted a niche audience that most short films do.
I personally feel that I was a key member of our group and contributed to each department of the creation of “Confined” from pre-production to post-production I believe that I put in effort to get the best result for the film and the group. My main role during pre-production was the storyboards as I drew the images representing the scenes and camera shots that were going to be used in the film. Another task that I completed was the blogging, I posted several times on the groups blog showing our progression throughout pre-production.
Throughout production I feel that the whole group shared an equal responsibility for the film, and I honestly believe that our film would have come out a lot worse if we hadn’t worked together as well as we did as a group. I was the main actor for the film, we struggled to find an actor and the group decided that I should play the main character “Sean” however I still think that I also contributed to the framing of shots particularly those without “Sean” in. I also found an actor to play an un-named character within the lift scene, I helped film this scene and found the location in which we used.
Pre-production is where I personally feel that I am most comfortable and confident. This is shown as I had taken a huge responsibility for the soundtrack, voiceover for police officer and phone sounds. When creating the soundtrack I used my sister to play the piano and recorded it into the computer. From this Ryan was able to edit to chords and melody that my sister had performed. I also used my dad to voice the police officer, I recorded my dad through my Mac and also wrote the script. I edited the dialogue and then imported it into Final Cut Pro. Throughout the editing period I went up to the edit suite independently several times to make sure that we was ahead of schedule and did not fall behind.
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