Week 1- The Pickpocket- Andy

I was only acting in this film although I was able to pitch in ideas for example what angle to take the shot from and a couple of ideas for narrative. I do feel we made a good first film. It is a fairly simple piece, but with the time we were given to prepare I think we did well. We decided for this film we would put more emphasis into style instead of substance. Not trying to tackle any of the deeper subjects, while not going into comedy. We wanted to play with the conventions of a spy thriller. So we used iconic mise-en-scène features, for example the thief using a newspaper to block his face. We used a lot of extreme close ups of the thief’s eyes carefully watching the victim. We also made it black and white which gave the film a noir like effect. The way we edited the film was to increase tension. Using shot reverse shot the cuts getting quicker each time until the swap of the phone.

Because of the location we chose to film at we had difficulty with lighting. Surprisingly we didn’t have many issues with recording sound. As the location was a relatively busy café In relation to where we decided to shoot. There was a light which would change to and throw. This is why made the film black and white in the edit. The film was easier to edit because we weren’t allowed to use dialogue as we couldn’t stumble over any lines from different takes  not matching up. Narrative wise it was also useful as it stopped us from getting distracted with character development, so we could just focus on what the characters were doing at that precise time.