LO2: Upload Rushes

This rush is from scene four, in which Ellis's character kills Toby's character. To show how our footage met generic conventions of similar products. We have used slow panning camera movements and interesting shots similar to the About a girl short film which we studied before hand. Plus, we used shocking shots similar the 'About a girl', such as Toby's death scene' To highlight conventions of the similar dramatic movies that inspired us. Films like blue story have similar scene in which main characters die in order to convey emotion and dramatise the growth in knife crime. Which we wanted to parody within our film. Similar to this, we used natural lighting techniques and used contrasted lighting by filming Ellis in shade and Toby in bright sunlight to show Binary opposition within the story.  Furthermore, when Ellis goes towards Toby's dead body, the shot is completely within shade, which makes it darker, relating to how Toby, Ellis's only hope, has been killed. Plus, it also connotes how Ellis is feeling at the moment within the scene. To achieve this shot I directed Toby to walk backwards when he gets stabbed, so we could move the scene to this area and encapsulate both him and Ellis within the dark. Throughout this scene we portrayed Ellis as a roadman by using Mese-en scene elements such as the:

Props- The knife 

Costume-

lighting-

Acting-

This is scene 3 where he gets out of his coma and is still robbing people and doing petty crimes. This clip shows a close up of a pedestrian about to eat but then gets his food robbed off him, we did a close up to denote the characters hand movement and to get his facial expression. Close ups are used in films to show Repetition, Characterisation, Situation and Timing. We add music in this to add suspense to the scene as we have the character approaching the victim the music denotes that's the main character has bad intentions, we also include slow panning camera movement and interesting shots similar to the shots in 'About a girl' Short film. For this shot we used an OTS shot that moved into a wide angel shot to show how fast Ellis was walking towards me, conveying his anger towards the other character. Also, we didn't use a dolly or tripod for this scene, this was to allow the audience to feel as if they were placed in the scene walking behind Ellis. This was also used to convey Ellis's anger during the scene. 

In this scene we want Ellis to look like a maniac to show what his coma did to him and how his coma made him more insane than he already was, and this scene perfectly conveys that, this is because we contrast him to Toby who is a moral person who and this fully relates to Claude-Levi Strauss's Binary opposition theory because of the story of Ellis being bad and Toby being good it is a basic story of good vs Evil but in our case Toby and Ellis. In this shot we use an over the shoulder shot to connote power towards Ellis's character because his character is a person who will harm you for whatever he wants.

The lighting in this scene creates meaning because Toby is shown in the light he is also wearing white clothing which connotes to purity and peace as white is a colour that is known to be pure. and that is why this is a powerful shot as this shows how good Toby is. 

These rushes use different shot angles such as over the shoulder shot over head shot and recording from behind these are useful to give a sense that we are following the characters these angles are also used in other short films there is also another shot that we used which was also in the short film 'about a girl' this angles was when Ellis walks towards the camera.

An example of an over the shoulder is when ellis is in the bathroom looking in the mirror.

In these rushes we put Toby's character in the light to connote that he is a good person whereas with Ellis's character we put him in darker shots to show that he has got something evil within him. we also edited the video to make the areas with Ellis's character more cold by adding a blue tinge we see this in scene 3.