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YOU'VE BEEN KISSED!!

Spread the DA love around! (you can copy and paste this message on their userpage!)


*dingding* RULES:
1- You can kiss the person who kissed you!
2- You can\'t kiss the person more than 3 times
3- You -MUST- kiss 6 other people
4- You should kiss them in public! Paste it on their user page! c\'mon..don\'t be scared of public displays of affection
5- Random kisses are perfectly okay! (and sweet)
6- You should most definitely get started kissing right away!

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"Back off we'll take you on,
Headstrong to take on anyone,
I know that you are wrong,
Headstrong we're headstrong,
Back off we'll take you on,
Headstrong to take on anyone."
Headstrong- Trapt (2002)

Avatar made by *FoxClaw100

Reflective Analysis

The main aim of my storyboard was to recreate the first chapter and a half of the novel ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ by Mark Haddon. I made it as close to my interpretation of the book as I could. However, the problem with novel adaptations is that people visualise different things from a descriptive text, so my photo story would be unlikely to fit many other reader’s imagination of the opening chapters. Also, capturing the same ambiance in the book was difficult, especially in the opening scene, because, like the book does so well, it has to entice the viewers or readers and hint at the exciting events to come later in the story.

The context of my photo-story was to show the opening two scenes of ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ as part of a full-length feature film. I made it fit with the book as much as I could in events and dialogue, demonstrating Christopher’s (the main character, a boy who suffers from autism) highly detailed viewpoint, mixed with shots which establish things to the audience so that already it shows how the rest of the film will be shot; greatly detailed, as Christopher sees everything, but with the audience as a third person, so that they understand the plot better than the boy does.

The micro elements I used had to both demonstrate Christopher’s ability to notice the minor features in everything he sees and a more sane minded view of what is happening for the audience. In the opening scene, for example, I made several close-ups on the dog’s body as the boy described it, and this, the audience would imagine, is what Christopher is seeing. Another example were the long shots of when the boy was looking at the dog from over the wall. This showed the audience where the boy was in relation to the dog, so that the audience (hopefully) don’t think he killed the dog.

I came across a few problems when making my photo-story, the worst of which was that my film camera refused to take pictures at night-time. The book is actually titled by the specific time of the incident, so to take the pictures in the day time, which I did, I would have to edit them a lot. The editing of the pictures took me about 6 hours of solid Photoshop-ing and even now I am unhappy with some of the pictures, but the effect looked good enough overall, that it was night-time when the events happed. The second scene was hard too because I ended having to use the same Christopher, played by Sam, as in the first scene, when really I should have used a boy about the age of 9, as he is described in the book at this point. However, Sam‘s younger brother, who was going to be young Christopher, wasn’t around whilst I was photographing the scenes, and so I just had to mention in the margin that Christopher was a few years younger.

The main effects I hoped to have on the audience was to interpret the book as accurately to the descriptive text as I could, so that fans of the novel would also like my introduction to a film version. I edited the photographs, at first only to make them appear to be taken at night time, and then to make them look grainy and hand painted, in a similar style to the drawing on the front cover of the novel. This was to make the pictures look eerier, to fit the events occurring in the first scene, and yet simultaneously childish and blocky, the way in which Christopher sees the world. In the second scene, with Christopher and Siobhan, I wanted to change the style of the photographs to look more cheerful, as it’s a fairly happy scene and Christopher is younger. To do this I brightened the colours and light, but used the same brushy effects so that it was still in-keeping with the first scene. I kept in this scene so that the audience understands that Christopher has autism, despite the fact that he doesn’t say it in either scene. The cheerful colours and music were to catch the audience off guard by going from a dark and gory scene to a bright school setting, and to have his expression barely changing. I hoped that this put emphasis on Christopher never feeling any strong emotions, living his life almost continuously in a content and unaffected state of mind.

People I asked about the photo story said that the pictures reminded them of the front cover and that the voice over was a good idea. I could only actually find one friend who had read the book all the way through, though! She said that she liked how I’d cut the second scene short, which I did because in the book more events happen at the scene of the dog, but I thought they would work better later in the film, if it were made. However, she also said that it wasn’t how she imagined it, which I expected, since novel adaptations never satisfy everybody’s perceptions.

To improve my photo story I would have liked to have spend more time on the photographs! Because I was racing against a deadline, which I also regret, I edited all of the pictures as well as I could have in the time I had, but I could have done a neater job with more time. Also, the setting for the second scene wasn’t right to me, it didn’t look enough like a school, although that is where I shot the pictures.

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Reflective Analysis



The main aims of our film was to demonstrate the effects of lighting, mise en scene and how editing the film into ‘film noir’ style would effect the overall mood. The mood created by these devices gives it a dark and eerie feel to the film, we hoped that all of these elements contributed to drawing the audience into the story and made it visually alluring.

Our piece is a stand-alone 2 minute short film without much of a genre, only the idea of film noir to categorise it. Film noir is best known for its lighting effects, for example low key lighting schemes, high level contrast, dramatic shadow patterns, characters faces partially or wholly obscured by darkness and most importantly to the story- morally flawed heroes. I think we have used most if not all of these characteristics in our short film. For example even though the film has a main character, or hero, he is flawed because he is in a poker game, and betting, to most, is disreputable.

We used the camera angles and cinematography to establish moods in each scene and to help tell the audience what is going on in the character’s minds. For example, when nemesis of the main character is putting down his cards, there is a zoom on the main character’s eyes, then a cut to the card being put down, then back to the zoom and so on until the cards are down. This shows the audience the tension at this moment and how much the main character depends on what his nemesis has in his hand.

The problems we encountered were not too difficult to sort out but just used up more of our time, the first problem was planning a time when all seven people starring in the film were available. We also struggled to get the right lighting; we needed dim and atmospheric lighting as opposed flood light, which were all that were available. In film noir, the right lighting is vital. Props were also difficult to get because of our lack of money. The final problem was that the main actor couldn’t make it, to solve this we had fill in for him with one of the film makers.

There were many elements which we hoped the audience would recognise. Firstly the fact that our film was ‘film noir’ hopefully got through to the audience. Another idea I hope the audience understood was our 50s style mafia theme which was reinforced by josh looking like a don and the only dialogue being Italian. Through out the short film we tried to give it tension using close-ups, high contrast, intense lighting and smooth jazz which gave it an edge.

Most of the audiences responses we got back said good soundtrack and variety of shots, a couple commented on singular scene and how they raise tension.

If I had to make this again I would firstly shoot more film close (around 20 minutes) I would also spend more money into buying props, spend time finding appropriate lighting, the Italian twins would be conjoined and it should be moving towards more of a dark comedy.

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