(A2) One improvement of my AS thriller film - Sarah

One problem in my AS thriller film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSkIv3VMML8

Setting

two locations

location 1) Although our desolate rural lane was appropriate as we wanted to give the effect of isolation and helplessness, each shots background may have appeared too similar. 

location 2) There was not much of this location shown, only around 10 seconds. This was to show the character in her flashback beginning to walk home. We should have found a more contrasting setting to the rural country lane. Using only two locations kept simplicity against the confusing flashback plot, however, the film would have appeared more interesting if we had varied where we shot. 

A problem within the setting location was lighting. I started filming in the middle of the day, which in a wide open landscape meant we used a lot of natural light. This was also a disadvantage as we wanted to use LED to create shadows at the beginning on the character lying in the grass ditch however the lights would not show up. As we progressed filming, by the time we were filming other close ups of the character we used a back light and filler light which worked very well and we much clearer.

One of the reasons we could only film two locations was timing. As we only had one afternoon to film, we thought it was best to use the location that was appropriate enough and close to us. This had an impact on the variation of setting but in a way still worked well as the audience could follow where she had come from and the transition between location was very smooth.

To improve our setting problem we could of changed our plot and storyboard slightly so we could have more interesting locations. We should of experimented with a variety of settings before choosing a rural lane. The main reason we did not do this is due to research. After taking inspiration from the silence of the lambs opening in a wood, the idea of being trapped and alone gave us the idea of the countryside location. In the future I will look into experimenting and varying my film setting choices.