My Evaluation

After making our films we made evaluations to explain the process we went through to create the final piece.

My Film

Here is my final film piece.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Sometimes the video appears slightly out of the white area of the blog post and the buttons freeze temporarily, it should move itself within a few minutes and play as normal.

My Poster

This is my final film poster. I took 4 seperate photos and arranged them together using the fireworks software. I took a photo of the sky and altered the brightness levels to make the colours stand out more, to make it have a bolder appearance. I did the same with the picture of the grass along the bottom. I didn't simply use the grass from the photos of the gril because I wanted it to look almost artificial and surreal. I darkened the colour and cut it out. With the picture of the girl, I lightened the picture to make her look exposed with high key lighting and then smudged her around the edges to make her look almost ghostly, which is significant to my film. The "PIG" letters' colours were not altered at all, instead I changed the lighting in the room to get the desired effect. I cut out each letter individually so that I could move each letter seperately as I did not want them to sit in a straight line. I created the certificate rating on fireworks making a simple red circle with "15" written in it. I put my tag line in the appropriate place so that it was symmetrical. I then tried to recreate a similar font to other film posters for the bottom text which states the director etc. I wanted a simple font for the "Starring..." part as there are a lot of colours on the poster and I didn't want it to look overdone. I chose a simple white for the colour so not to distract from the main subject.

Photos for my review

For my review I decided to use a different picture of the subject so that it could look like a portfolio picture belonging to the actor. This is why I have her smiling, but I have used the sky from the poster so that it links it to my film. I made her face brighter using the Fireworks software and smudged her face a little to make it look as though she is blending into the background, I also wanted to make it look softer.





The final product

My pictures for my poster

When composing my poster, the sky was the part I most experimented with to get right. I took many photos from all different angles with different clouds and the sun being in a different place. I took photos of my subject closer up and then further away so that when I put it with the background of the sky, I could decide which would look best. I also took photos of the grass, some of them were closer up than others to try and get the best shot that I could cut out to go over the top of the subject so that it looks like she is laying in the grass. I didn't use the grass from the original picture of the subject as I wanted it to look artificial, it was also so that I could manipulate them separately. I took photos of the same newspaper cuttings of the letter "PIG" as I wanted there to be a continual flow throughout my pieces and as these appear very frequently and are a prominent item in my film.

Film Review

You can click to enlarge, but if you still cannot read it this is the script

















Another exquisite release in Emily Clark’s short film collection.
The cleverly named “PIG” leaves the audience guessing from beginning
to end. Sadam Yousef and Oliver Buckner give the performances of
their careers to date in their passionate, heartfelt acting styles.
A remarkable story of love, betrayal and corruption.

The opening scene sets the tone of a crime drama well
in the way we know Detective Logan (Yousef) is not supposed to be
involved in the case. We truely believe his love, anguish and grieving
for his late wife in the way he interrogates Scott Turner (Buckner).
Moments later we are transported back in time to the scenes of the
murder in sudden flash back form. Isabella Logan’s (Egan), dramatic
attempt at escape can seem a little false and forced at times, but
takes nothing away from the tone of the piece. “I want to play a game”
says Logan, a classic postmodern twist from an already classic film
saga “Saw”. The two films combined would make that of a masterpiece,
something to be considered perhaps. The two locations are perfectly
selected, that of a desolate waste land, where no one could possibly
be found, flourished in colour with high key lighting, exposing every
action of the desperate victim, to a claustrophobic interrogation
room, lacking in colour, personality and life.

Logan’s cornering of Turner is admirably clever scripting, leaving Turner
with no answers as it would seem that his fate has already been
sealed. Everything about this film, from the composition to the use of
props has been perfectly thought out and strung together with transitions
that would make any film maker proud. A particular triumph has got
to be the transitions made into photographic evidence style shots,
with the magazine cut out words. It includes every aspect of a police
experience, it even makes the audience feel guilty to an extent.

Lighting plays a key role in this piece, every shot of Logan has incorporated
Rembrandt style side lighting, which makes us feel his emotion, his
dark side that wishes to ensue punishment on the one responsible for
the death of his wife. The subtle sense of guilt both characters exhume
helps to confuse the audience in a way that keeps them on their
toes throughout and subconsciously makes us suspect everyone
playing a role in this case.

The story leaves its audience gripped from beginning to end. We
want to believe that our suspect Scott Turner is guilty in the way
the past and present is brought together to make it seem as though
he is imagining it. Only at the grizzly end do we learn the full power
of the truth. It will leave anyone in wonderment yet suspicion
of what those who are meant to protect us are truly capable of, and
can they really get away with it?

VERDICT
An inspiring piece that invites others to use similar techniques. Congratulations are in
order, and, of course, we must never forget appearances can be deceptive.