Written commentary

Written commentary

Our media product is around 3 minutes including titles and the logo. Our titles were planned to be all white but some showed up very poorly against certain clips, so we had a range of black and white, so the audience could see them clearly. Especially when we were watching them in front of the class on a big screen. A lot of the titles were supposed to be over the clip, but visibility was very poor so we used a fade from the clip to black and then used our titles, which really helped it to enhance it better.

Our logo, we had to include some sound affects over the top of the logo. Lucky, the people who produced our soundtrack already had a known logo and we had permission to be able to use that in our project thanks to Imogen’s brother. As the logo, was Fyreon, it seemed appropriate to include a fire image to make the logo seem more attractive.

Alex Lang, the second female actor, helped us with the voiceover, which was recorded on a basic audio recorded as some of the cameras were not available, but we think it fits in well.  We put this into our project because there was a lot of background noise and it gave the story a clearly plot. Alex Lang is the classical teenager in horror films for being in the age limited of 16-20 and having bright blonde hair. This also gives in to another stereotype of blonde people; it is also a physical trait often associated with "bimbos," attractive but unintelligent or uneducated women.

The Detective scene wasn’t added until the very end and was purely because of film didn’t make a lot of sense. Just using a small 30-40 second long interview with the detective really help use to build up the basic storyline for the audience to understand it better.  Also, adding this clip in, using a male lead, made the younger female characters looks even more vulnerable.

First clips from field to horse saddle, these clips were played with some of the detectives voiceover played to keep the audience having to listen and concentrate on the storyline. The Horse riding down the sand was a very long clip, so we used fade ins and fade outs to make the clip seem faster and have a better flow so the audience didn’t become bored.  We did however, want to reshoot some of this clip, but it was so hard to keep the continuity the same and the horse was becoming very agitated and wary of the camera.  Also, most horses are kept in countryside, which is also in the middle of nowhere, where people are more likely to go missing.

When Sam (the first actor) looks in the bushes, this is where our soundtrack beginnings to play into the movie, the killer seems to be able to get her very easily, suggesting teenagers are very vulnerable and to young really to be trusted by themselves. The social group it is generally based around youth, it is generally a negative connotations.

The clip were the murdered attacks Alex, it didn’t look very realistic so, we played this certain clip in slow motion. When Alex was in the bushes, a few of our shots we hand held, because the tripod could not balance in the woods, so we had to be careful to keep it steady and not shaky. I really like the ending of our film, with the music quietly playing the background and the victim’s phone ringing creates a really good vibe for the film. We then used a variation of zooms.