Thoughts on our final piece

After completing the final edit of our film, I am very happy with the final result. I believe that as a group, we achieved everything that we set out to do and we really put our knowledge and understanding of different camera and editing techniques to use whilst doing so.

I believe that the true narrative behind our piece was portrayed very well in the final edit of the piece. After creating the first draft of our piece, we were able to notice any continuity errors that we had made, and were therefore able to reverse these errors in the final edit of the piece. Watching through the first edit also allowed us to be able to see what other shots we may wish to include or any areas where we believed the shots we had used were not necessary. I think that creating the initial draft truly helped us to be able to create the final piece that we now have today, to make the piece as good as it could possibly be.

I think that our choice of music throughout the piece was very fitting and really helped to add to the narrative and feeling throughout the piece. The contrast between the two different sound items helped to define this difference of life Vs death that we wished to portray throughout. I also believe that our use of diegetic sound helped to intensify this sense of mystery felt as the arguments seen between Josh and I serve to produce a clue into the real reason for the murder/death of Jasmine's character.

I believe that the large use of shots that we included in the piece really contributed to the final effect that the film holds. The use of pans helped is to build tension and suspense and the use of close-ups/ extreme close-ups helped to build on this also. They did this by isolating Jasmine's character, making her seem lonely and vulnerable. I also really liked our use of the 360° shot as it allowed us to create an almost chaotic atmosphere, mirroring Jasmine's state of mind and the collapse of everything that she has known.

If we were to create this opening again, there would be a few elements that I believe that we could tweak to make the piece even better. Jasmine and I decided to create a video outlining our views on this which can be found below.