Our film clip is from the opening sequence of our film. Our film was supposed to be about finding the girl that has been kidnapped in the boot of the car. Our film genre is British crime and we were influenced by a number of films. Our mise en scene came from the film “Kidulthood”.
The clothing in “Kidulthood” is all sport brands and in our clip we are all wearing casual sports wear. We felt like this would be appropriate for our film clip as it is a British crime film and it would make the scenario more believable. The person in the boot idea was influenced by the film “Goodfellas” Where you see the men open the boot and shoot the body.
When editing our clip we made sure that the audience knew what was happening. We used parallel editing to let the audience know that the car was meeting up with me and George. We cut back to us standing a few times so it was clear we were waiting for something. We then cut back to the car to make it clearer who we were waiting for. The parallel editing is probably the best editing feature but over all the editing of our film was done well.
Where our clip falls is in the sound. Initially we were going to use a microphone to record diagetic sound and put it onto our video but unfortunately the microphone didn’t record when we tried to, as we didn’t know how it worked and when we did figure it out we had to stop recording. So our diagetic sound is from what the camera picked up but it still works well with the clip because we didn’t want non-diagetic sound throughout the beginning to try and build atmosphere and focus the audience’s attention on me and George and the car. We use non-diagetic sound towards the end of the clip, which works well because it comes in when the boot shuts suggesting to the audience that what they have seen previously starts off the story of the film.
This shot really captures the audience’s attention. No one knew what was going to happen with the car and the two people and I think with everything together, mise en scene, editing, sound and cinematography really makes this shot work well. The camera angle really works as well because it’s looking out of the boot but still no one knows what is going on yet. The camera then cuts to Jade in the boot and captures the audience’s attention and makes them want to watch more.
When we first started the project the story line was a little different. It was a clip from the end of the film, the idea was along the same line with the girl in the car but the man with the girl in the car saves the girl and kills the other two thugs. We couldn’t do this clip as we didn’t have two cars but I think if we did it would have been longer and there would have been more camera shots. We also didn’t have a replica gun so the clip could have looked quite amateur.
Overall I personally think our clip works well because everything is correct, the mise en scene, editing, sound and cinematography all work well together and the story line is clear and exciting. Our feedback from the class was very pleasing as there were no negative comments made. Everyone liked the build up to the boot scene and thought the clip flowed very well.
