Sound (film and evaluation)

There are many different sounds which can be used in media for  a variety of reasons. In one of my media lessons me and my media peers were set a task to create a short film to show different types of sound I was taught.

Non-diagetic/off screen - voice over/sound we can not physically see where it is coming from.

Diagetic - (Dialogue) audience can see and hear where sound is coming from

Parallel sound - Sound matching action

Contrupuntal - Sound contrasting action


Planning - with my group we all contributed to different ideas to make our short film, we then came up with a film based on two friends who had a problem with eachother, one was gossiping about the other and they fell out. Our location was in a school, mainly in the playground. The film starts of with the fuming character who has found out that her 'friend' has been gossiping about her and she goes to confront her.

Film









(enter film)








Evaluation - I will be evaluating different camera, shots, editing and mis en scene.


Camera shots - at the beginning of the short film we see a girl sitting on a bench, this is not the main character. This could display that something is about to happen.


In this scene we see the main character (who is going to confront her former friend) we have a long shot view of her walking, we can instantly see she is angry and walking towards her 'friend' on the bench.


Close up shot - here we can clearly see the dominant characters emotions. This is beneficial as it gives an insight to the audience as to how the dominant character is feeling.






Editing
Editing was quite basic as it was only a short film the lack of editing made the film seem quite boring and basic. There was also a scene where the main character was coming down stairs and walking out of a door, in this scene we could see a bystander this made the film seem unrealistic as the bystander should not have been there. Shots should have also been cut shorter to make the film more interesting. Sound should have also been created to make it more dramatic.


Mis en scene -  The mis en scene in the film was good and realistic. We filmed in our sixthform which was relevant to the storyline. The main character was wearing a sixthform lanyard which clearly represented her being in a sixthform. The main character is wearing dark eye make up and a black jacket, the second character is wearing black. This suggests that something bad is going to happen as both, whereas if they were both in bright colours with happy facial expressions, this would suggest that they are happy and something good is going to happen. The facial expressions are pretty clear in this short film, the main character is very annoyed and angry whereas the second character seems to be looking careless.