“Wanderer” By Mark O’ Brien and Jake Wilkins are yet another short film that falls under the Mystery/ Thriller Genre. This short film includes many elements in which apply to our chosen genre, Mystery. This short film is based on a male traveler who arrives at a secluded house around the evening time. As he is looking for shelter, he stumbles across a youngish couple that appears to be around his age group. They invite him into dinner in which later leads to the uneasy feeling of the woman. Leading to the following questions, “Could it be that the nomadic serial killer who has been stalking the area has just walked into their house?” “Will they survive the night?” “Wanderer” was produced in way in which readers follow up with the following question “what is going to happen next” In this case, with the usage of sound/ noise. With quitter, less noisy sounds, this film allows for reader to maintain a less sudden approach. Background noise plays a very large role in the a...
Hey! Welcome back! The filming process has been set back, Once again. After all of our schedules not aligning we've had to make some tough decisions. We've decided it's maybe not the best idea for us to film in a "psych ward." However, we did make the final decision to film within Harley's sisters room. As it gives a more eerie approach. I am however, happy to say I am more content with this decision. Another major decision we decided to make was splitting up filming into two days, not consecutively. We realized that with our schedules, we couldn't make the time to film on more than two days. We did however, come up with some great ideas. We did have to adjust the ending of our film, due to the setting change. Now, the end of our production will say, "time for your medication." This idea is a more plot-twist approach, created by me. As the editor also, i felt this would give more context to the film, making a timely approach make sense. Through ...
Writing to what you have resources to is a strong saying that we’ll have to live by when developing our plot and script. We can only write with what we have. There’s only so much we can do with the camera that we’re filming with and the lack of mics. Knowing that we’ll need time to edit and fix the pacing of the film. There’s only 5 minutes we have, so we need to be careful on how much we film and the amount we’ll cut. Over filming is the best option, but we need to make sure the plot isn't one that doesn't have to be fully fleshed out to be able to understand. There does need to be payoffs of some sort and every scene has to count, there’s not room for filler. There also can’t be a lot of predictability within the film, which will be hard because of the groundhog type day plot we plan on using. There has to be types of scenes that the audience won’t see coming, while also following the theme of the story. The theme will drive our plot, and it needs to be understood by the a...
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