1. Storyboard and description
The first thing we see is a
close up of The Victim’s
hand tapping anxiously;
then the clip cuts to The
Loan Shark rushing down
the corridor and the
aforementioned and latter
are cut between. Layered
with a tense soundtrack
this adds depth and dread
to the first 20 seconds of
the film. A confrontation
ensues and The Victim is
left with a threat. The
confrontation involves The
Loan “Shark” proverbially
circling the victim, this
hints towards how “evil”
and superior the Loan
Shark is (Most shots of the
Loan Shark are shot from
low down to emphasise
this).
The Shark threatens the Victim’s family and then makes
haste and swiftly departs on a serious tone to make his
message just that more hard hitting. As the door closes
behind we can see the Victim sitting distraught at the
table, the next scene showing his reaction now he is alone.
The use of music helps the tone throughout the whole film
but works especially well here.
4. Self Evaluation
For the production of our film we had to first to come to terms with
the premise of our story and figure out what we were going to
portray. We decided on doing a story about money and a
loanshark. Our plot was quite weak and simple but was easy to
follow and effective bring to life. We had to fill out a callsheet and
floorplan and a shot list and other documents, we set up the
camera and proceeded to shoot. We made a mistake with opening
the blinds as it whitewashed the entire shoot, also shooting on
different days also disrupted the lighting. I think that the
cinematography was thorough and well thought through, the
sound was mediocre and needed more attention in the editing
process. Over the course of the shoot our film took shape and we
had to polish what we had yet we sacrificed this at the expense of
continuity. Overall we had a tough time filming as we didn’t follow
our what we set out to do. In our planning stage we were quite
thorough and detailed yet we didn’t follow our tracks to the letter
and our production wasn’t quite as adequate as intended. The
final copy was brushed through and edited quite well but the lack
of continuity was a spanner in the works and tainted the final
rendition.
