Main Task - About the film?

The genre that our film is focused around is thriller. Our group chose this particular genre due to it engages with the audience in the sense of 'if you were in the same predicament, how would you react?’ By having this feature or element it gives the opening a different dimension to other films. Our film, as mentioned before, focuses on the elements of Blair witch product. This is done because 'The Blair witch project (1999)' uses an antagonist or a sense of evilness which you cannot see; we used this in our opening as it gives an eerie feel about it. The comparison between our film and the 'The Blair witch project' is that the mise - en - scene is very similar, this is done as both locations are filmed in the forest or woods to create that 'no were to run' atmosphere about it. Other mise - en - scene comparisons are the costume are similar as being free and casual no distinctive set for dress, this gave the people in our film and maybe also in 'The Blair witch project' a sense of freedom. The dialogue in both films are similar structured due to in our film, the actors were giving a 'retrospective script', which meant they were giving outlines of what they should talk about but left the bulk of it to their own initiative, this was the case present in 'The Blair witch project' as the actors were giving the same instructions. This provided 'realness' as the actors could put emotion which can be sensed in our film. In terms of editing our group have just began editing, we are going to input alot of fast cuts to give a sense of distress in our film which could be put forward to our audience.

The cinematography in both films are similar as in our film we used a lot of close ups, medium close ups and tracking shot, for example using a tracking shot to see were the character is going but then fast cut to a close up of his face to show his expression which is a very good element in putting forward different views of the character. Howver a difference in our film compared to that of 'The Blair witch Project' is that our film wasn't filmed in real time, this was due to that it posed alot of problems as we notciced whilst filming we couldn't fit all we wanted to do. We used a Cannon MV890 handheld camera, this also posed problems to our group in using 'real time' filming as the sound wasn't to good and to add voice overs while editing would be almost impossible.

A way that we may have been original compared to that of other groups is our cinematography and our element of actor freedom. As I mentioned before we show many different views of the actors to show his body language, expression and pure feeling at any time. This is also complemented by the freedom they have say and speak as if they were really in that position.