Media Evaluation

Media Evaluation


1: In what way does your media product use, develop or change forms and conventions of media products?
Our 2 minute title sequence uses several conventions that are commonly used in psychological horrors. For example, in the murder scene, there are no clues to who the murder could be, as only the feet are shown. This is typical of psychological horrors; the object of horror does not look monstrous, but is rather a normal human being, whose horrific identity is often not revealed until well into the work, or even at the very end.
Another convention which we incorporated into our title sequence was music during the build up of dramatic moments. When the lights are cut in the rehearsal scene, there is dramatic music playing quietly, this indicates to the audience that something is about to happen and creates suspense. In psychological horrors, music is often used to build tension and create suspense. For example, in the opening sequence to ‘The Shining’, the music is quite eerie and has an edgy feeling to it, indicating to the audience that the film isn’t going to be a pleasant one.
Link to the opening sequence of ‘The Shining’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw23KM3-Ry8&feature=fvst

2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our group, we looked at the shining and liked the way they stuck to the generic conventions with the social groups that are represented. In psychological horrors, usually women and children are seen as being weak, this is proved true in ‘The shining’, as the protagonist is a male character, who tries to murder his wide and child. In order to incorporate this idea into our own film, we had teenage actors and had a women murdered by a man, during the flashback scene. We also did this because in this type of genre, men are more often the villains. The murderer is shown to be a male, because of the deep, harsh voice heard at the beginning of the flashback.

3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

As a group, we decided that we would have small-scale film company Film 4 Productions to distribute our film. Owned by channel 4, it is associated with independent and low budget films. One of the reasons for choosing this company is the method of distribution. Film Four holds a Film festival each year, this is where film makers will try and sell their film to a specific audience. This sort of technique is how we would like our own film to be distributed.

As a group, we decided that film merchandising would be based on the popularity of the film. With it being distributed by a small scale company, we decided that T-shirts would be appropriate, with slogans interpreted from our film. Lines such as ‘You’re not supposed to say the name’, could be printed across these T-shirts.


4: Who would be the audience for your media product?
Our target audience are people aged 15+ as that is our films certification, in terms of its contents. When we did our audience research, we found that the people who had watched our title sequence would watch the whole of the film, and recommend it to a friend. They also enjoyed the films that had influenced us. Before classifying our film as a 15, we did a lot of research, to see how far we could go in terms of taboo language and violence. As our film only uses mild forms of language, and the murder scene is obscured in darkness, we decided that certifying it a 15 was appropriate.
Here is a link to the following website we used in order to certify our film:

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/15-2

5: How did you attract/ address your audience?
By having the characters the same age as the age group our film is aimed at, I think it would attract the audience because they are able to relate to characters, because of the similarity. We wanted to also have a variety of male and female characters, so male and females could enjoy our film. Although, we do see the female character ‘Emily’, being portrayed as a weak character, as this is one of the convections of psychological horrors that we wanted to interpret within our film.

We wanted to make sure that each character got an equal share of amount of time on the screen, in order to help the audience relate to each individual character. We also used a lot of medium and close-up shots. We did this because we wanted to convey to the audience exactly what the characters were thinking or feeling, so that the audience could share some form of emotion or even feel sympathy towards the characters. For example, when the character Carla storms off to the park, we have a medium shot of her shouting, this is done so that the audience can clearly see her anger. Also, there is a close up of Emily as the murderer is creeping up on her, this is to not only inform the audience that she is scared, but to also help in creating sympathy towards the character.

6: What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing the product?
I was faced with a lot of equipment I hadn’t used before, so the one of the first things I learned in terms of the available equipment was how to use them. This included setting the camera to white balance, using night vision and also setting the camera stably on the tripod.

When editing, we had a few difficulties, one being that the computer with all our work on it wouldn’t work. However, this problem was soon fixed and we were able to get back on track. When editing the sound, we found that when filming the park, we found that the sound of vehicles weren’t heard. In order to make our film seem more realistic, we put in the sound of traffic and birds singing, to emphasise the location to the audience.


7: Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I feel that in terms of filming, I have become a lot more confident with a camera. I also feel that I have come to grips with the different types of shots used, and I’m now able to identify how and why to use certain shots. For example, using a long shot to establish a conversation. I have also improved on editing, in terms of continuity. In my preliminary task, I know now that there were a few continuity errors, and recognising this saw it that in our title sequence, the editing followed the convections of continuity.

Evaluation - Jordan Hutchinson

Media Evaluation

1: In what way does your media product use, develop or change forms and conventions of media products? Our 2 minute film used several conventions which are commonly used in psychological horrors. For example, in the murder scene, not much detail is given about the murder. Their identity is not given and only their feet are visible. This is common in films of this genre as the identity of the villain is often shown at the end. Another convention which we adopted is the use of music at key points in the film. In the rehearsal scene where the lights cut out, we played dramatic music quietly as indicator that something is about to happen. The use of music in psychological horrors foreshadows and adds to the mood.

We didn’t want to create a hybrid genre as we felt strongly about keeping in tradition with psychological horrors so we tried to follow the format of specific types of films whilst adding our own story. In terms of influence we had, we looked at different films of a similar genre such as Ghost Ship (2002), Psycho and The Shining.

In comparison to our film, these films involve quite simplistic shot types in order to capture the story. They also offer a franchise in terms of the dialogue and 

mise-en-scene, for example, with Psycho, the shower scene where a female is murdered, has become a famous scene. Also, in The Shining, the scene where the male character chops down a door has become so famous, the phrase, “Here’s Johnny!” is recognised by most people. We found it would be difficult to adopt a similar trait, though we tried with, “William!” in the murder scene.

2: How does your media product represent particular social groups? With The Shining, we admired the simplistic titles as well as the way they stuck to the generic conventions in terms of the social groups that are represented. The main protagonist is male and he chases after his wife and son. In psychological horrors, children and women are often seen as weak and defenceless. We wanted to adopt this view so we did so by having teenage actors and by having a woman killed. Also, in films of this genre, men are often the villain so we wanted to give an indication that a man might be the villain in our own film. We had the character, Emily, who would be murdered, repeat the name, “William” to indicate that the murderer is male.

3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

We considered using a large-scale company to distribute our film such as Warner Brothers to distribute and/or produce our film as this company has been associated with big films such as the Batman films, Harry Potter and Slumdog Millionaire as well as distributing The Shining and Ghost Ship (2002), which was our main influence. The newer Batman films by Christopher Nolan have generated a gross revenue of over $1,350,000,000 with an upcoming third film to be released.

We eventually came to the decision that we would have a smaller-scale company such as Film 4 Productions to distribute our film. Film 4 Productions is owned by Channel 4 and is associated with independent and low-budget films. The company holds a film festival each year for small-time directors and film makers to sell their film to a specific audience. This is a distribution technique we would consider. The company is associated with films which we admired in terms of their connection with our region, the North of England, such as ‘Brassed Off’, ‘East is East’, ‘24 Hour Party People’, ‘This Is England’  and ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’. In terms of genre, audience, shot types, title sequences and the type of characters portrayed, these films are quite varied and are very successful. 

With merchandising, we found it would be quite small-scale and would depend on the popularity of the film. Mainly posters would be made but clothing such as  

T-shirts could be created which would relate to the dialogue and/or mise-en-scene. For example, a T-shirt could be made with the words, ‘WILLIAM!’, and an image of Emily being strangled on it as it relates to the murder scene.

4: Who would be the audience for your media product? Our target audience are people aged 15+ as that is our classification for it’s suitability. Looking at our audience research, most people enjoyed horrors and would consider watching our film. After filming people who had watched our 2 minute film, we found that some had seen the films, i.e. The Shining, which influenced us. In terms of classifying our film with a suitable certificate, we researched the criteria for 15 as we wanted to make sure people of that age would be able to see the film, due to them being our target audience. We made sure we didn’t have too much taboo language so we only used mild forms. In terms of violence, we not only used the switching out of lights to add to the horror effect but, we also used it to disguise any gore. We looked at the bbfc website to determine the certificate of our film: 

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/15-2 

The Shining is a certificate 15 though it appeals to a slightly different audience than our film. It is targeted at mainly adults due to it’s disturbing psychological content but the classification means that anyone aged 15 and above are able to watch it legally. Due to the violence and some of the strong language used, I expected the classification to be an 18.

5: How did you attract/ address your audience? As our film is a certificate 15, the audience research was aimed at people aged 16-18 as that is the age group of the characters in our film. We found that the audience could relate to the characters as they in the same age group. Having mixed genders, we found that both male and females could relate to the group of teenagers. With the murder scene, we didn’t want to focus on Emily’s age as we wanted to focus more on her gender due to the convention of females being the victim in psychological horrors.

In terms of the shot types we used, we wanted to make sure each character out of the students who were rehearsing had a shared amount of on-screen time so that the audience would be able to put themselves in the position either of them. With Emily, we wanted more women to relate to her, which is why she was the only character on-screen. Also, we found in The Shining that the scene where the female is trapped in a room and is about to be attacked, that she was on-screen for a longer amount of time than her attacker. Her reactions were filmed i.e. her facial expressions, so we adopted this technique in our own film and had a close-up shot of Emily’s facial reaction. 

6: What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing the product? In terms of the equipment used, I found the cameras were quite difficult to use at first. We struggle to get the camera to focus in some locations and when we filmed in darkness, we needed to use night vision as it was too dark to see anything. After getting to grips with the camera and setting up the tripod, I found it quite easy to get the camera in focus. I acted in most of the scenes but I had chance to film the phone call scene for Carla’s part. As the scenes were filmed at different times, we had to make sure the conversation matched up. In order to make sure the scenes fitted, I directed the actor who played Carla when to say her lines by signalling her with a hand action which she was able to see from where she was sat.

One difficulty we faced was when we filmed a scene in which the lights went out. After putting it on the Mac for editing, we discovered it was slightly out of focus so we needed to film it again, however the room which we needed to film in, as it was the rehearsal scene, was occupied so we had to wait until the next lesson. However, we overcame this difficulty by filming the phone call scene. In terms of editing, we didn’t had several difficulties which were easily solved. As the murder scene is a flashback scene which occurred in 1933, we wanted to have a black and white effect, which we believed would add to the horror genre, at first we didn’t know how to add the effect but soon discovered it and had it in place. We also had the same opinion with the night vision effect for the rehearsal scene as we found it incorporated the fear of darkness. Including fear is a common convention of psychological horrors. For example, in Ghost Ship (2002) gore is used throughout to add to the ‘fear factor’. Also, water and travelling on a boat gives the impression of isolation and vulnerability.

When editing with sound, we found in the park scene was the most difficult as there were passing vehicles but their sound wasn’t picked up on camera. We had to put the sound of passing cars and birdsong which would be heard in the background of the dialogue between actors. Eventually after altering the volume of the background sound clips, we fitted it to match the cars which drove past on-screen.

7: Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? During the preliminary task, I found I didn't have much experience with the camera, therefore I didn't feel confident enough in terms of how to work it. I know have much more confidence in myself when it comes to using the camera, especially as we have used a more complex one. I also know what type of shots I can use in the future in order to create a stereotype. I am also more confident with editing as I can work the software much easier and I know how to use editing in order to match the genre of the film.

Audience Feedback

Evaluation- Mary Ellis

1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?
  We followed many conventions used in the genre of psychological horror, such as non-descript film titles which do not distract from the main action on screen. We also chose not to reveal the identity of the murderer by only including his voice as he threatens Emily whilst offstage; his feet as he moved into position to strangle her; and the hands as he strangles her. This way, only by Emily repeatedly shouting William, does the audience know that the murderer is male. Many films in this genre often reveal the 'villain' at the end with a climatic twist in the storyline. This keeps the audience in suspense, which is heightened by use of visual effects such as black and white flashbacks and night vision sequences.
To keep strictly in the genre of psychological horror and not create a hybrid genre film, we scripted the piece carefully; to include shocking moments to scare the audience, and for the dialogue between characters to lack humour, so the overall tension of the film cannot be deflected by humour. To further establish tension we used dramatic music at key points of the film, indicating to the audience that something is happening. We were influenced by leading films of this genre; Psycho and The Shining. The major selling point of these films is the opportunity for a themed franchise through memorable quotes, such as 'Here's Johnny!' from the Shining, and eye-catching cinematography such as the shower scene from Psycho.

 

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Most films in this genre use women and children such as the thriller film The Sixth Sense, as the targets, and are often represented as weaker social groups. To stick with this convention we used a predominantly female cast, with the first victim also being female. Men are often the villains of these films, and so to give the impression that the protaganist of our film was male, the victim Emily repeats 'William' many times before being strangled. This accurately reflects the demographic of our target audience, because the majority is female, as males tend to view action or more violent films. Again we were influenced by The Shining which has a male villain and female and child victims, which is why we chose to use teenage actors, to adopt the view that youth is a weakness.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
 We discussed using a large institution to produce/ distribute our film such as Warner Brothers as they are reputable, and very successful due to recent films, such as the Harry Potter franchise and Slumdog Millionaire. They also distributed two of our main influences The Shining and Ghost Ship. The Harry Potter franchise has been estimated to be worth around $15 billion.

However we decided that a small and preferably British institution such as Film Four Productions would be better to distribute our film, as it is owned by Channel 4 and associated with low budget films. The company holds a film festival each year for small-time directors and film makers to sell their film to a specific audience. This is a distribution technique we would consider. As the company is British we would be able to retain the cultural aspects involved in our film such as the regional accents the actors use. Other successful films by this institution involving our region include, ‘Brassed Off’, ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’  and ‘East is East’, which vary in genre and content. All of which have been successful. This will also affect the opportunities to merchandise, with only possibilities of T-Shirts with either character faces or dialogue written upon them, such as ‘William!’, however this opportunity to merchandise would depend on the popularity of the film.

 

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

 Our target audience is predominantly female and age 15+ as this is the appropriate certification rating for our film. To classify our film with a suitable certificate we had to script our film with mild forms of taboo language, and to reduce the violence aspect, we used the lights cutting out to disguise the majority of the gore. Whilst conducting our audience research we found that the people, who were interested in seeing our film, had also watched the films that had influenced us the most. This shows that we were targeting the right market providing the production of the piece went well.

We decided to make a film which was the same certificate as the films that influenced us, such as The Shining. Which is certificate 15 due to the psychological content, meaning that anyone aged 15 or over is able to watch the film, however it is mainly directed towards a more adult audience because of the violence and language used. Our own film will be directed towards the late teens demographic because the actors are a similar age and the language is milder than in The Shining.

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/15/

5. How did you attract/ address your audience?

To attract our audience we used actors of a similar age and put them in a situation many could relate to, by being drama students rehearsing. By this we include 3 main personas generally included in this genre of films; the non-believer (Jack), the sarcastic (Abbie), and the insistent whiner (Carla). In order for these characters to work together it has to be established that they know each other well and that winding each other up is a common thing to do, hence the argument scenes at the beginning. We counteract these scenes with murder flashbacks to give our film a creepy edge right from the beginning. We use close up shots of Emily’s face when she is being strangled to deliberately obscure the murderers identity and to draw our audience in right from the start of the film. I feel this works really well because of the dramatic background music which builds the tension, and the black and white visual effect hides the murderer more effectively than colour from the audience. Through the mystery of the murderer’s identity, it makes the audience intrigued to find out more, and keen to continue watching.

To make sure every character was relatable to the audience, we scripted pivotal lines for each character, so they had an equal amount of screen time. This allows the audience to connect and empathise with each individual character. For people, especially women, to relate to Emily, we made sure she was the only character onscreen and edited out the POV shot we had planned for William watching her offstage. In The Shining we noticed that the female victim’s expressions were recorded which is another reason we filmed a close up reaction of Emily being strangled.

6. What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing the product?

The cameras their selves were easier to use than expected, however filming action supposedly in the dark proved tricky, because the characters still had to be visible, but the situation couldn’t look fake. To solve this problem we decided to film in night vision mode which meant the acting could be seen along with the dialogue, and individual shots, as well as the audience understanding that the lights have gone out. With most of my group acting within the video, I filmed a lot of the project, although I let them put as much work in as possible if they weren’t on camera or involved with the scene. We got to use HD cameras which filmed higher quality footage and enabled us to get the shots we needed, whatever the lighting was.

Final cut express was extremely useful because it allowed us to put visual filters such as black and white, to make our flashbacks clearly discernable from the ‘modern day’ time period footage. It also allowed us to reverse music in the beginning scene, so that the ringing sound played well with the video. We used sound bridging and roll shots to create fluid scenes, whereas without dialogue was difficult to cut between because of the speed the actors performed it. It also allowed me to reframe shots that weren’t perfect when filmed, and create a split screen scene. I was also able to include a simple match on action between the characters faces in the split screen. The simplistic titles we created were also easy to sequence along with the video and sound.

7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

After conducting the planning stage in a chronological order, I feel that by being involved in the entire process helped us to achieve a higher quality film. This is because we knew how the genre had to look, the way and order in which to do it, the shots we needed, and how to edit it all together. Without having done the preliminary task, our project would have been weakened by lack of knowledge of the programmes or equipment used.  I feel I am more able to capture a specific shot such as a match on action or a pan, and therefore much more confident in my own filming abilities. Our end product is successful in the way it demonstrates the genre, with a compelling storyline and well edited footage.

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The Final Act - Final Edit

Evaluation (Draft)

Media Evaluation


1: In what way does your media product use, develop or change forms and conventions of media products? Our 2 minute film used several conventions which are commonly used in psychological horrors. For example, in the murder scene, not much detail is given about the murder. Their identity is not given and only their feet are visible. This is common in films of this genre as the identity of the villain is often shown at the end. Another convention which we adopted is the use of music at key points in the film. In the rehearsal scene where the lights cut out, we played dramatic music quietly as indicator that something is about to happen. The use of music in psychological horrors foreshadows and adds to the mood.


We didn’t want to create a hybrid genre as we felt strongly about keeping in tradition with psychological horrors so we tried to follow the format of specific types of films whilst adding our own story. In terms of influence we had, we looked at different films of a similar genre such as Ghost Ship (2002), Psycho and The Shining.
In comparison to our film, these films involve quite simplistic shot types in order to capture the story. They also offer a franchise in terms of the dialogue and 
mise-en-scene, for example, with Psycho, the shower scene where a female is murdered, has become a famous scene. Also, in The Shining, the scene where the male character chops down a door has become so famous, the phrase, “Here’s Johnny!” is recognised by most people. We found it would be difficult to adopt a similar trait, though we tried with, “William!” in the murder scene.


>Image of The Shining release poster<


2: How does your media product represent particular social groups? With The Shining, we admired the simplistic titles as well as the way they stuck to the generic conventions in terms of the social groups that are represented. The main protagonist is male and he chases after his wife and son. In psychological horrors, children and women are often seen as weak and defenceless. We wanted to adopt this view so we did so by having teenage actors and by having a woman killed. Also, in films of this genre, men are often the villain so we wanted to give an indication that a man might be the villain in our own film. We had the character, Emily, who would be murdered, repeat the name, “William” to indicate that the murderer is male.


>Images of female character's close-up facial expressions<


3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
We considered using a large-scale company to distribute our film such as Warner Brothers to distribute and/or produce our film as this company has been associated with big films such as the Batman films, Harry Potter and Slumdog Millionaire as well as distributing The Shining and Ghost Ship (2002), which was our main influence. The newer Batman films by Christopher Nolan have generated a gross revenue of over $1,350,000,000 with an upcoming third film to be released.


>Images of Warner Brothers logo and the release posters of two films talked about<




We eventually came to the decision that we would have a smaller-scale company such as Film 4 Productions to distribute our film. Film 4 Productions is owned by Channel 4 and is associated with independent and low-budget films. The company holds a film festival each year for small-time directors and film makers to sell their film to a specific audience. This is a distribution technique we would consider. The company is associated with films which we admired in terms of their connection with our region, the North of England, such as ‘Brassed Off’, ‘East is East’, ‘24 Hour Party People’, ‘This Is England’  and ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’. In terms of genre, audience, shot types, title sequences and the type of characters portrayed, these films are quite varied and are very successful. 


>Film 4 logo and images of release posters for the films talked about<


With merchandising, we found it would be quite small-scale and would depend on the popularity of the film. Mainly posters would be made but clothing such as  
T-shirts could be created which would relate to the dialogue and/or mise-en-scene. For example, a T-shirt could be made with the words, ‘WILLIAM!’, and an image of Emily being strangled on it as it relates to the murder scene.


>Images of T-shirts<


4: Who would be the audience for your media product? Our target audience are people aged 15+ as that is our classification for it’s suitability. Looking at our audience research, most people enjoyed horrors and would consider watching our film. After filming people who had watched our 2 minute film, we found that some had seen the films, i.e. The Shining, which influenced us. In terms of classifying our film with a suitable certificate, we researched the criteria for 15 as we wanted to make sure people of that age would be able to see the film, due to them being our target audience. We made sure we didn’t have too much taboo language so we only used mild forms. In terms of violence, we not only used the switching out of lights to add to the horror effect but, we also used it to disguise any gore. We looked at the bbfc website to determine the certificate of our film: 


http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/15-2 


>bbfc logo and certificate 15 image<




The Shining is a certificate 15 though it appeals to a slightly different audience than our film. It is targeted at mainly adults due to it’s disturbing psychological content but the classification means that anyone aged 15 and above are able to watch it legally. Due to the violence and some of the strong language used, I expected the classification to be an 18.




5: How did you attract/ address your audience? As our film is a certificate 15, the audience research was aimed at people aged 16-18 as that is the age group of the characters in our film. We found that the audience could relate to the characters as they in the same age group. Having mixed genders, we found that both male and females could relate to the group of teenagers. With the murder scene, we didn’t want to focus on Emily’s age as we wanted to focus more on her gender due to the convention of females being the victim in psychological horrors.


>screenshot of students stood together<


In terms of the shot types we used, we wanted to make sure each character out of the students who were rehearsing had a shared amount of on-screen time so that the audience would be able to put themselves in the position either of them. With Emily, we wanted more women to relate to her, which is why she was the only character on-screen. Also, we found in The Shining that the scene where the female is trapped in a room and is about to be attacked, that she was on-screen for a longer amount of time than her attacker. Her reactions were filmed i.e. her facial expressions, so we adopted this technique in our own film and had a close-up shot of Emily’s facial reaction. 


>screenshot of a close-up of Emily and images of the female character from The Shining<


6: What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing the product? In terms of the equipment used, I found the cameras were quite difficult to use at first. We struggle to get the camera to focus in some locations and when we filmed in darkness, we needed to use night vision as it was too dark to see anything. After getting to grips with the camera and setting up the tripod, I found it quite easy to get the camera in focus. I acted in most of the scenes but I had chance to film the phone call scene for Carla’s part. As the scenes were filmed at different times, we had to make sure the conversation matched up. In order to make sure the scenes fitted, I directed the actor who played Carla when to say her lines by signalling her with a hand action which she was able to see from where she was sat.


>screenshot of Carla in phone call scene<




One difficulty we faced was when we filmed a scene in which the lights went out. After putting it on the Mac for editing, we discovered it was slightly out of focus so we needed to film it again, however the room which we needed to film in, as it was the rehearsal scene, was occupied so we had to wait until the next lesson. However, we overcame this difficulty by filming the phone call scene. In terms of editing, we didn’t had several difficulties which were easily solved. As the murder scene is a flashback scene which occurred in 1933, we wanted to have a black and white effect, which we believed would add to the horror genre, at first we didn’t know how to add the effect but soon discovered it and had it in place. We also had the same opinion with the night vision effect for the rehearsal scene as we found it incorporated the fear of darkness. Including fear is a common convention of psychological horrors. For example, in Ghost Ship (2002) gore is used throughout to add to the ‘fear factor’. Also, water and travelling on a boat gives the impression of isolation and vulnerability.




>screenshot of Emily in the dark and the night vision scene<


When editing with sound, we found in the park scene was the most difficult as there were passing vehicles but their sound wasn’t picked up on camera. We had to put the sound of passing cars and birdsong which would be heard in the background of the dialogue between actors. Eventually after altering the volume of the background sound clips, we fitted it to match the cars which drove past on-screen.

Locations

These are images of the locations where we filmed;

Rehearsal room lights on/off (rehearsal/murder scene)

Cafe (phone call scene)

Shelter (phone call scene)

Park (argument scene)

All locations except the park were in college.