Dreamer task 1
- 2. In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real films? • In our film we targeted a very specific target • When asking people what audience and genre; we aimed at the they thought about our film, conventions of a physiological thriller genre by the majority of the people using many different colour effects and dreamy found it gripping and most of effects with the lighting, colour and sound. With the audience would doing this it helped give the audience that understand but have a slight dreamy effect that was taking place in our short sense of confusion in them, 2 minute start to a film, this also made the film not 100% what is going on. In seem authentic. our case, people where • We kept our continuity well, as we used all the asking, can he dream what is same effects in the same scenes then changed going to happen? Or is he back to normal when the dream was over. This imaging or is he still in a helped the audience know when the dream was dream. This means that what taking place and when it was over. we did worked and people wanted to know what was going to happen next, which would result in them continuing to watch our film.
- 3. The colours • As our start to our film is based around a dream we had to use many different effects to be able to pull this dreamy atmosphere of. One of the main effects we used was the colours. • We decided to change all the colours around, yellow • When Bryan wakes up from his ‘dream’ all the changed to a light blue, red colours go back to normal to give the audience changed to a purple colour. the sense they are back in reality and its not a The green grass was similar dream anymore. however changed the colour • We tried with many different effects and found to a brighter and slightly that this one worked best because of the distinct different colour. As well as colour change. The colour change is obvious to the audience which gets the audience thinking skin changing to a light what is taking part un till you see Bryan wake up blue/purple colour. from his dream and colour go back to normal.
- 4. • Sound wasn’t a major part in a film, silence was the effect we used and just having diagetic music. Sound • During the start of the movie, we start with just • The one section we had sound in, was the some natural sounds of eye part. This part was when everything the birds and the area, this then changes in the dream happens in reverse and seen from only hearing natural by the audience through Bryan’s eye as sounds throughout the he wakes up from his dream. chase, this included the • We used a mix which had been made by a car engine and nick DJ, it had a soft tune which gradually buil breathing heavily. up to bring the tension up in the film. • throughout the film all • The sound had that dreamy effect with it sounds are natural except which is what we were aiming for. one section which we • The only other time the song is decided to use as a sort of featured is during a short title scene theme tune. when the title is displayed.