MDA1300 - Scene Recreation Brief

This is our scene recreation brief.

unfortunately, due to a burst water main in hendon, we were unable to go to the university campus on the intended day of filming, meaning that the actor for the male lead was unable to make it, so we had to find a replacement (thank you Thor!) who, unfortunately, wasn't an amazing actor, so the male lead detracts from the seriousness of the scene.

The girl, however (Arielle) has worked in theatre and drama groups so acted out the character of Karen very well.

I feel the best aspect about this piece is the attention to detail in the rooms (i.e. the discarded bottled in the background, the song playing at the correct time in the scene and the layout of the two rooms), the camera work (shaky, like in the actual scene, to add a sort of grittiness to the drama of the scene) and the edits which are all at the correct moments.

I feel that in some shots the lighting is darker than it should be, but aside from that I feel that we did well in the task considering the unfortunate events and a slight lack in preparation regarding actors/actresses.

For our next brief, we have been given the task of making a 5 minute short film based on one of our stories created for our storytelling and the screen assignment.