Construction: Reflection

Editing and reviewing

After filming the flashback we were able to finally fill in all the gaps we had in our filming; we cut the clips down and added all the appropriate video transitions such as dip to white when a character is going out  and fade to black when eyes close. We watched the whole film through to see what we could change and improve it by critically de-constructing it and we found some issues:

We first noticed, that when we showed people our video the first time without explaining what it was about they had a few questions(Especially at the second scene) before being able to understand the video, once it was explained it was understood. Although people understood the storyline after it was explained, for it to be successful it should be obvious what the storyline is therefore we had to reconsider it. When we watched our video to the end we realised that in the flashback the main antagonist appeared paedophilic and we could use that change the plot slightly; we could make the conversation at the park about finding girls to be his next victim, which would help tie everything together. We drew up a storyboard quickly out lining our new plan:

We also noticed our lack of close ups and angles from which we filmed from and this made our filming appear repetitive and disallowed us from showing our full potential and increasing tension with a variety of shots from various angles. 

When filming the flashback scene Conor still had his school badge on which disrupted the Mise-en-scene therefore, we had to organise time to re-film it alongside another to film at the park.