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            The criterion for my assignment was to produce a genre film, edited with diagetic and .
             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. .
             A medium long shot of our protagonist walking along a corridor suggests her .
             Vulnerability. She is encase rated by two walls littered with people as she proceeds .
             out of the doorway. This exiting out of the door symbolises an exit from that part of .
             her life into the next through the codes and conventions of mise en scene.
             In want of a sinister overtone to her introduction to our Vampire character we .
             opted to film during the night. A portable external light was borrowed for the .
             creation of intense shadows but due to technical difficulties it was not utilised .
             leaving streetlights to suffice. An estate location was suitable in that it presented an .
             sense of foreboding tendency. .
             .
             Deciding to follow up the meeting of the two lovers with a quick montage we.
             illustrated their bonding over a series of activities. This montage succeeds a graphic .
             match of our protagonists watch and big Ben, an indication of a lapse of time in .
             continuity editing creating expectation doubled by anticipation in a close-up shot prior .
             to this where lipstick is applied.


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