The Waiting Room: Project

We had to create a film that was based around a minute but the actual film is longer than a minute. Taking a time and making it longer with out pausing it.
When someone is waiting to see a doctor or go into the dentist's chair they will look at the clock and think that time is going really slowly because they just wanna get it over and done with, well that was the effect that we had to create.
Our idea was pretty solid and didn't really change much but we were trying to create a background story with one scene which was very complicated. We were going to be...
- Waiting for a phone call
- from a friend
- who had just murdered someone
- but it was also the police
- and we had the weapon and didn't know what to do
- Phone would ring and then BLACKOUT
THEN
- Girls had witnessed a murder
- waiting for a phone call
- scared
- phone rings BLACKOUT
FINALLY
- Girls witness murder
- murderur sees them and ties them up
- they were passed out and had injuries
- timer is set on phone for one minute
- girls wake up, struggle
- murderer comes back and BLACKOUT

Evaluation...
I think the filming went really well and the idea was quite creative. We used low lighting and a black backdrop to add effect and we also used very close shots to add to the emotion of the piece.
Editing was fairly easy, because of the way we filmed it there wasn't much that needed doing other than putting it all together in such a way that it would be effective. The only thing that was changed in filming is when Ellie shot up, a few frames were taken out to make her wake up a little more suddenly.
In Raging Bull the sound for the punches was done by what sounds like fruit dropping from a fair height so basically done separately. We had to create the sound track with different objects than were using in the actual film.
Overall I think that our film worked out pretty well and I like the finished product. If I was going to change anything it would have been the ketchup we used in the actual filming, but that isn't really anything major.
Audience reviews said that it was very dark and seemed like something that would be seen in a film. They liked how at the end there was no gun shot but the cocking of the gun was really good, it made them wonder what will happen or what has happened. There was no bad feedback which I was really pleased with.

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