The film that we made would be classed as a Acton/political thriller. This is because the plot is about an agent working for the CIA on the hunt for terrorist organizations.The scene which we shot would be the climax of the film in which he is captured by terrorists and tortured for information. The genre has influenced the decisions i made as editor. Inspirations and influences came from a selection of other films. A film that influenced me was syriana, in this we see the torture scene. I wanted to include the odd angles at the start of the clip and also the close up shots.

I had to zoom in on many shots and darken them to make it believable as torture seen. This shot below was darkened and zoomed in left, so the shadow could be seen and only a part of the body. This makes the audience unaware to who it is and slightly uncomfortable as all they can see is the shadow.



Other influences included scenes from the borne identity in which the editing is quick and fast. i tried to create panic as this is a emotion Kurt is going through at this time.





In our first scene with have a shot of the agent with a bag over his head. This was deliberately done to make the audience intreaged and confused to who and what they are being shown. I thought it was a wise idea to edit the shot so it would last longer and repeat itself through out the clip. This gave a chance for more sound to be layered over to create suspense and give an idea of location. This i felt was a typical trait of a thriller to not only have the mis en scene to create tension but the sound as well.

when editing it was key to me to have shots of an eye for example but not give away the agents or the terrorist face, as our original footage did.I felt this was key to leave the audience confused and intreaged. When editing i put in subtitles which was a great way of making the clip seem more professional and typical of its genre.

Our group consisted of 4 members. We worked together and contributed well once we came up with our idea of a tutor scene. Once we decided it would be interesting to do a torture scene we then came up with the rest of the plot , we did this by brainstorming ideas down on paper then blogging them. We came up with the idea that involved an agent travelling to Iraq to hunt for terrorist organizations, as well as this he discovers the corruption involved in Iraq. A trip back to the United States and he is captured by terrorist hiding out there., we chose to shoot that scene as it could be interesting to do and was realistic we could do it. We all came up with the idea that he would escape and the resolution would involve him killing many of the terrorist and him quitting as an agent after seeing corruption and not being rescued by his own people. We named the lead character Kurt prance as it is a bold leading man name. After brainstorming ideas down we all came up with the idea to call the film operation red zone,

Our fist idea was to include the agent being held captive watching on a television screen his wife screaming being held by the same terrorist organization and then to have him bust out and kill the terrorist then, save his wife. This soon became more and more impossible to do, so we thought we would keep the idea but simplify it. We then chose to have the capture scene but use a classroom, were as before we were thinking to shoot outside.We thought we keep things simple by scrapping the idea of a television and him escaping in that scene. But to Just have him sitting there unaware of where he is and make the use of sound our main focus to create suspense and surrounding.

I feel the editing was successful, and the process we have undergone has allowed us to make progress as individuals.I wanted to make the audience feel uncomfortable at certain points in the acton, by making shots longer when there bag is over the camera to allow use of sound, and also making them put them selves in the position of the Kurt. All of this suggests Kurt is tied up. i wanted to make the audience as clueless as Kurt is. After having feedback , one quote was ' the cuts are surreal great use of subtitles'. This was an aim of mine, not only to make the cuts surreal but to have a good flow.

examples are when the camera is just over the bag and all you can hear is chinking tools, voices and the rustling of tape.

Film evaluation

In this essay i will be evaluating my role and Responsibilities, in our groups short film. Our group consisted of four people and we were given a task to produce a two minute extract that we had to create ideas for our self. Our group had to decide of a genre. After discussion we decided on an action thriller. There were for roles, Director, sound designer, editor and cineimatograther. My role was director. In this role the main aspects that i was involved in was Mise en scene, costume and performances. Furthermore as director of our group i overlooked the editing and the making of the soundtrack. However even though i was involved the sound track and the soundtrack was made to good quality sound they did not need much intavention. Additionally we made idea about what effects to use in the editing as a group. The main ideas for our film, were films such as Iron Man Staring Robert Downey Jr and directed by Jon Favreau, and Syrianna, Staring George Clooney. Additionally we got ideas from Mission Impossible III staring Tom Cruise.

Iron Man Trailer:

Syriana: interogation scene:

MIssion Impossible III Trailer:

Additionally these films that i have mentioned influenced our idea for the Mise en scene. Ideas Such as lighting and the different shot types and angles that we used. For this film we used big industrial lights to make the lighting give the effect of an deserted warehouse in an remote location, which is a traditional for captive scenes. The lights were extremely bright which showed the darkness of the setting behind the captive, this shows how alone the captive is and how Venerable and at risk the captive is to his terrorist captors.

Additionally the close-ups of the captives face showing his fear and the extreme close-up of the captives eye. We used these types of shots because in Syrianna and as a group we decided that this type of shot would work well in our film extract. However now looking back on the film i have come to the conclusion that the shot may of lasted to long. Furthermore the prop ideas that we used in our film, were taken from the film " Marathon Men" directed by John Schlesinger, (1976) ( see video below). This film gave us the idea of the close-up shot of the tools. This shot shows the audience that the captive is going to be tortured, in addition to this, this close up shot keeps the audience in suspense. In addition to these props we also used, "duck tape" to tie up the captives hands and feet. Furthermore we used a black plastic bin bag to place over the captives head to increase effect of our film. When looking at the final result i would say that these props made the film better. Another prop in which we used to good effect was fake blood, i believe that this gave are film greater authenticity . I believe that the fake blood was used to great effect was in the close ups of the captives hands and feet. In these shots i think that the fake blood works well with the duck tape which we also used.

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In addition to the props, we also used costume. Our ideas of costume, for the captive we got the idea of the vest and the black suit trousers from the First Die Hard movie staring Bruce Willis. Additionally the terrorist costume which consisted of camouflaged army gear. I think that both of these costumes worked well in our film giving the film an greater effect, and giving the audience a more obvious view on the genre of our short film.

As director of our film, as part of my job i had to decide what the actor needed to perform, in different ways. In the majority of the shots and angels only showed certain parts of the actors body. Due to this the actor had to show different emotions in different shots. For example in the close up of our captives eyes, the actor had to show fear in those eyes to create the effect so that the audience sees the fear in the eyes of the captive.

The feedback that we got from our film was generally good, however there were some things that we could work on. For example one of the shots that our feedback sheet said we could improve was the close up of the captives eyes and face. The audience said that these close ups lasted to long and reduced the effect of the sporadic cuts. After re watching our film, the audiences feedback is true, the shots are to long and if we were to re shoot it i would reduce the amount of time that the shot lasts for.

Some of the parts of our film that i believe that worked well were the variation of shot types that we had used. These shots gave the film a greater effect, and showed the audience a greater understanding of the genre of our film. If we would re-do our film then there are a few things that i would change. At the beginning of our film i would use an establishing shot of an location that is remote to give an greater effect of the audience and a greater understanding what is happening in our film and the genre of our film.

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movie shots for essay

Films for evaluatoin

In todays lesson we have been finshing the editing and special effects of our short film. Furthermore throughout todays lesson we have been creating and gettin ideas from other films that are with the same genre as ours to see what kind of soundtrack and sound effects these films use.
for example James Bond casino royale touture scene:



from this clip we s=designed our soundtrack.