Evaluation for Depict Production

Me and my group made a 90 second short film depicting ideas about conformity and how society views people with different ideology's for this project.

Our camera use was very simple as our production was made up of different people but with the same shot type. All of our shots were either close ups or wide shots. When people were walking down the path we used a wide shot and with the shots of the faces we used close up shots. We also used an extreme close up of an eye behind the mask to emphasize the fact that people were still individual underneath the mask. Our camera angle also didn't alter much as we kept it very straight on to what was happening.The only time we moved our camera angle was in the final two shots where the camera follows the masks down off of the peoples faces.

We kept our editing quite simple as we felt like if we added too many cuts or fades into the already confusing story line would become lost. We added simple cuts between shots in order to keep the film flowing and to distinguish between the varying locations. One edit that we used was the fade from black and white to colour within the extreme close up shot of the eye. This showed the individuality that everyone had behind the mask.

We made our film completely silent apart from ambient music. We decided to this because it showed that people don't know why certain trends start they just follow aimlessly and that linked in with our plot line of conformity.

The only prop that was included in the mise-en-scene were the masks which were the main focus of the film. These masks told the audience that we tend to hide behind things if it means we fit in with others. We only had two settings which were the studio in front of a black drop and a path just outside the classroom. We used the black drop to make sure the sole focus was on how the other people were changing their perceptions of what is normal. In the studio we used very bright lighting so the camera would pick up on the clean white masks however the colour was saturated in editing to create more low key lighting. By doing this we managed to create what seemed to be a very dull world until the end when people took off the masks to reveal their true selves.