Directors Commentary

This video is our sequence with a commentary voice over as the sound to explain what we did in certain shots.

This medium shot of Aaron, denotes his 'schizophrenic twin' behind him, which suggests the troubled thoughts and images he has to put up with all the time. The music also changes in this situation as the music turns to a more tense moment.

Here is an over the shoulder shot of the twin, looking down and watching Aaron which is part of Aarons mind. He then walks out of the shot whilst the camera remains stationnary, adding a unsettled atmosphere.

This two shot shows the divergence of Aaron and Stacey, as Stacey doesn't believe him telling her that he didn't kill the girl. This is why Aaron is lower, to show his inferiority. This additionally follows the rule of thirds, as Aaron is in the bottom right and Stacey being in the top left showing her superiority and authority.

Audience response to our film

After we made our film, we asked our peers what they thought, so we could get an in-sight into the general opinion on our film;

David Lowes
'I thought the story line was gripping, and the editing was good, especially the slow motion effect you used when the other person appeared behind Aaron.'

Matthew Finnegan
'It was extremely proffesional, however, the story line was not 100% clear'

Ryan Boylan
'It was good, i enjoyed it but the begining effects were the best.'

Guy Winn Davis
'It was a great in sight into how some one can be percieved and stereotyped.'

Most of our feedback shows that our editing is of a high standard and the story line adhers with the young British generation.

We asked this particular group of people, as they are our target audience, however, we also asked a wider audience, including our teachers, and their response was;

'Your film is very professional and intriguing, also the opening sequence generally makes me want to carry on watching.'

So from our feedback we can positively say that our film was successful within most generations.
The general over view is that of good, high quality.

Problems

There were some problems which occurred during the making of our film. For example, the first day we started filming, we had the camera completely still, at a medium shot, all the way through the conversation, after looking back at this we decided it looked week and uninteresting.

So we decided to film again, this time we took various shots, including high angle, low angle, to show power and authority, shot reverse shot, to show conversation, and a range of medium shots, medium close ups and long shots to show the setting and the characters.

Also, the sound was another problem during the conversation scene, the first time we shot, we realised that it was hard to hear the conversation, so when we went back to re-do the scene, we used a microphone, and the sound was much better.

Another problem

Links to the films we used as inspiriation.

These are the links and clips from the films, which we used as inspiration, and linked into our film.

Link one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5HrHcgnWRw

Dead Ringers is a 1988 Psychological horror film starring Jeremy Irons in a dual role as Identical twin gynaecologist. Director David Cronenberg co-wrote the screenplay with Norman Snider; their script was based on the novel Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland.

Link Two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGkM8txx8mQ

Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction film written and directed by Richard Kelly. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, and depicts the reality-bending adventures of the title character as he seeks the meaning and significance behind his troubling Doomsday-related visions.