non-diagetic sound. The length would be five minutes or under. We chose teenage

horror/romance as our genre. No number was allocated to our repertoire of

dispensable shots, thus leaving film pace in the hands of our creativity.

The film we produced was of a low budget and therefore relied on style &

ingenuity rather than special effects. We begun with a good idea although possibly

clichéd in films of a similar genre. A zoom out from a red solution fogging the

frame revealed itself to be but a drink, red in texture, fore-boding in the nature of that

which follows. Alignment of shots entailed an initial establishing shot taken from

inside a room. The room catered for the indulgeance of a house-party environment

during its finishing hours, low key lighting is an indication of closure to the party.

Also, lighting was poor in terms of atmospheric value and locations were

Some topics in this essay:
, London’s Embankment, vampire character,