Unknown Calling
In
our film “Unknown Calling”, the two protagonists get a phone call from their
friend, who tell them to meet in the hall. The girls arrive at an empty hall,
and sit down to await their friend’s arrival. The girls sit and wait, when
suddenly they hear the nursery rhyme Ring o’ Ring o’ Roses. The girls get up to
leave when the get a phone call. The phone says “Unknown Calling”. The girls
debate between themselves whether to answer it, the girls can’t come to an
agreement so one girl answers the call. The girls speak, they ask “who’s
there?” and “hello?” nobody answers. The girls both agree they need to get out
of the hall, and so they try a set of doors. To their horror and despair the
doors don’t open, the girls frantically and desperately try another set of
doors, when they hear the nursery rhyme again. They begin for another set of
doors, when they find a circle of chairs has been organised in the middle of
the hall. One of the girls finds her phone in the middle of the circle. The
girls become more and more panicked. They try for the last set of doors and, at
first they can’t get out but eventually, and somehow, get free from the hall.
The girls begin running down the corridor and then they come to a set of stairs
where they begin ascending the stairs. One of the girls then falls and tells
the other girl to go on without her. She obeys her friend and goes on. She
first comes to a door that she can’t get through, when suddenly her friend
appears behind her, possessed. The girl runs down the stairs, when to her
delight see her friend, who she doesn’t realise, is possessed. She asks her
friend questions but the possessed girl ignores her and descends the stairs
towards her. The possessed then puts her hands round her friend’s throat until
she falls to the floor. The possessed girl then turns to the camera, to say “we
all fall down”, the last words of “Ring o’ Ring o’ Roses” and then she puts her
hand over the camera.
We
included the majority of the shots, but we did not include all the shots. This
was due to the fact that when it came to editing the shots some were edited outas
they were not the best shots.
Firstly,
we chose to use a medium shot because the protagonists were having a
conversation and walking along. It displayed the characters perfectly. Also at
this point we used zoom because we were focussing in on the conversation. I do
not believe the movement of this shot was successful because, the zoom of the
shot didn’t flow and didn’t represent the fluidity of a conversation. Another
shot we used was the close up, at the end of the film. I feel this shot was
successful as we used it to intimidate and scare the audience, as it’s just the
possessed girl’s face and it brings somewhat more horror to the film. Next, we
used a point of view shot to make the audience to feel first-hand, the fear and
feelings of the character. I feel this shot was successful because the sound
and movements in this shot feel as if it is the audience that are doing what is
going on, on camera. Then, another shot we used was an over the shoulder shot,
this again makes the audience feel close to the characters, and gives the
audience the chance to feel their feelings too. I feel this shot could have
been more successful as it could have been more ‘over the shoulder’, as I felt
it was not close enough to the character. Finally, we used thetracking
movement. This shot helped show the characters are scared and frantic, as the
camera is shaking. I feel this was successful because it was not the ‘perfect’
tracking shot but it made the fear of the characters feel genuine.
At
certain parts of the film, the shots were not always steady. This was due to
the shot looking better as an unsteady shot to show the characters panic.
Overall,
I feel our film was successful, considering it was our first film and editing
opportunity. I feel we completed the shots quite well, for our first attempt,
but the shots will look much better in our films to come. I feel that we have
to work on our editing of our films, as not all of the film flowed very well.
We could also work our sound quality, as sometimes in the film you could not
always hear what was going on.
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