Week 6 , GOLD R.M

This week we were tasked with creating a British social realism film. This week Dan had asked to do the script writing, he came up with the idea for a young couple who were expecting a new born child, both had recently been fired from the jobs and were looking for a new job opportunity, when the male turns to alcohol and the pair are evicted from their house and the film ends on them slumping in an alleyway. In the pitch we were told to simplify the idea and keep to one location. So we decided to keep the pregnancy idea and unemployment, and set the film in a kitchen. As research we watched rat catcher, and some other British social realism films. I was a technical assistant and editor of the film, the filming went well, considering that we had the idea of using only improvised dialogue to promote realism. We had learnt about preparation and organisation from our earlier films, and from this we had reappeared costume, set and props before the filming, leaving nothing to chance like we had done before. While editing I noticed that the sound quality was sub par and some of the shots were out of focused or not white balanced. But the end result worked well and was one of our best films especially when the twist at the end was revealed, when we show that the camera is looking through the eyes of their small child. We got very positive feed back and have chosen this film to reshoot for next week project.