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I am
honoured at this fact due to this being my debut piece where
I have took into consideration a specific meaning to be conveyed
through angles, shots, editing, sound, music, mise en scene
and dialogue.
This differs immensely to my previous 'mess about' films about
a serial killer whose weapon of choice was a spoon! The film
takes its influences from my study of the film noir movement
in cinema and amateurs such as my personal favourite David
Fincher (Seven, Fight Club).
The visual
style of my film has a clear film noir surface, using chiaroscuro
lighting to give a rich contrast between dark and light and
having a typical film noir character type to open with, the
narrator, or in generic terms, the anti hero.
The story is fairly simple but the original intention behind
this piece of film making was to just produce the opening
to a film, this is why 'Dead after dark' does not give a closed
narrative nor even an open narrative to begin with, to an
extent, this film is a "slice of someone's life" as we briefly
see a short segment of it.
Each shot in my film has significance to the narrative in
conveying a message about the characters. Low angles looking
up to 'The driver' to convey his dominance and power and a
effective use of eye level angles with the narrator that jump
cut to reflect his panic. Thus making the audience instantly
relate to him.
The music was carefully picked, each one runs well with the
narratives image but also, creates a mood in relation to the
narratives text. Radiohead's 'Treefingers' song (an eerie
instrumental) creates an almost, science fiction tone to the
film which blurs the distinction between generic conventions
to open the film with; film noir and science fiction.
I would personally like to thank everyone who has helped me
make this film and other people who also helped me after its
filming in terms of exhibition etc; Jenny (most importantly
of all as if it wasn't for her then I wouldn't be writing
this now, she helped me discover who I am and what I want
to do with my life so I thank you a tremendous amount.
David Watts
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