2. CHANGE OF ACTOR
I have taken the decision to change the actor playing my
Anonymous man no.1, otherwise known as actor Frank Dunn. For
the film, Frank's features look too young to play the character of a
drug dealer. I do intend for the character of the drug dealer to be
almost weedy, he isn't a hard going/violent dealer, however Frank
does look just slightly younger than what I had previously hoped.
This has pushed me to seek another actor who although looks
slightly older, doesn't exceed the age range of around 16-20
which is roughly the age range of my target audience. To use an
actor such as of 40 and obviously older looking, I feel would be too
far and our young audience wouldn't identify with him. As media
theorist Maffesoli argues, in a post-modern society people will
identify with what they see within the media and interpret it within
their own lives. It is important that I make as broad of an area for
people to identify with in the 16-20 age category so that I relate to
my audience and entice them by doing so.
This is why I have chosen to use 19 year old actor Christopher
McDonagh. With dark brown hair and a height of over 6ft he looks
the part more than that of Frank’s almost innocent light ginger hair
and pale white face. I have also chosen to use a fake tattoo sleeve
for Chris to wear and so the camera can pick up on it in specific in
some shots. This suggests more of a roughness to the character,
whilst still wearing the slightly odd looking Hawaiian shirt to
resemble the dealer in Pulp Fiction - which I previously intended to
mirror in this character.
4. DELETED FOOTAGE – THE SHOP
SCENE
The footage used in the shop location didn't look sinister
enough as a flashback, Having previously wanted to do
something similar to how Rodriquez uses a claustrophobic
yet ordinary location of a liquor store in 'From Dusk till
Dawn' to cause doom. Within my own footage however I
feel that the sinister message is not clear enough.
Although I do not wish to make the male actually do
anything within the scene as Rodriguez has men with guns
threatening the customers in his own film. I do however
want to give the feeling that my female character is scared
by him because he as a character has done something/is
stalking her/is after her. To do this, I now think it may be
important to not even show the male characters faces
throughout my film. This gives the element of the unknown
and transforms them from boys into sinister and
mysterious figures. In addition to this, I have now decided
to change the shop location into the location of the
Norwich Underpass. The lighting there is eerie and only lit
by bright lights from the underpass and it is covered in
graffiti. There is a sort of urban but lonely feel to it while
keeping within the connection of youth that my music
video aims to target.
5. DELETED FOOTAGE – POISON/WINE
SCENE
Unfortunately I feel I cannot use this footage because the
lighting is just too dark. I made the mistake of not using a
spotlight to highlight my characters faces. Instead I
presumed the television light would make a big enough
impact as it seemed to have looked on the camera. As
supposedly a sinister scene I therefore feel that I cannot use
the footage because the lighting is too weak.
In addition to this I feel there may be too much of an
ambiguity around the concept of the scene. Since I am now
not going to show the male characters faces throughout the
video, the concept of the male character watching TV with
the female antagonist as her lover, sort of isn't very clear.
This is why the footage will now be deleted because my
concept is already disorientated in it's portrayal due to the
fact I am trying to explore the disorder that is schizophrenia.
To then add another unclear flashback I feel would just
confuse my audience for the wrong reasons and the lack of
impact from the dark lighting does not entice my audience
any further. I have attempted editing the footage to improve
the lighting however I feel it looks too pixelated and takes
away the quality that the camera originally captured the
footage on. This would make the footage too different from
the rest of the quality of the film and I want my film to have
continuity and clarity.
