The Selfish Giant (2013)

The Selfish Giant (2013) is a gritty northern realist film showing the tragedy of two young bradford 'scrappers'. The film is extremely sincere and the camera reflects this extremely well. The film is on the whole a grey film, with a number of lingering long shots showing off the gritty scene. From this film I aim to take the grey look of the film to add to the realist approach that we are taking on Of The Right Passage.

Chungking Express (1994)

Chungking Express (1994) has very highly stylised visuals. Director Wong Kar-Wai is known for using grainy, eccentric visuals in his films, especially in his earlier films. The cinematographers on Chungking Express, Chris Doyle and Wai-Keung Lau use lots of movement and colours in their shots which creates a sense of excitement in almost every shot.

In Of The Right Passage, I want to use the camera movement to create a pace that will not be created by the editing of the piece as it is a slow moving film with few high paced sequences. Therefore,  I plan to use camera movement in especially slow-paced sequences to keep the audience interested. I don't intend to create visuals as eccentric or 'out there' as Wong Kar-Wai's because Of The Right Passage is not as fast paced or exciting but I think that it was worth using some of his visuals as an influence as they do create a more pleasing view of a film.

Another thing I plan to use from the camera style in this film is the grain. As I will be using a DSLR camera to shoot Of The Right Passage I will alter the ISO to create a grainy effect.

Script for 5-10 minute short

After writing the script for the 2 minute exercise, we decided as a group to continue with the same story and to build upon that narrative to create a longer, more full story of guilt and the character's journey of becoming a better person.

Storyboards for 2 minute exercise

Problems overcome

During the production process we have encountered and overcome a number of obstacles. The main obstacle we have overcome is our main actor dropping out meaning we had to shoot the whole film again.

Another problem we encountered is the fact that some members of the group couldn't attend all of the shoot dates meaning we had to fill in for their roles meaning that certain aspects of the film were'n as up to scratch as they should've been.

Another problem we had to overcome is the fact that we couldn't secure a proper call-centre to film in so we had to re-create that environment in a class room. We had to be careful with camera angles to not shot certain things such as, the emptiness of the room and the whiteboards that were clearly for a class room