Drama: critical review

The film Sign Language by Oscar Sharp is the film I would like to review as it is probably the biggest influence on my film. The main thing that stood out for me was the use of close ups and how they make you feel not only physically closer but emotionally closer to the character. He is an incredibly likable character and the use of humour really helps this, I find myself not understanding why the other people seem to dislike him. The big reveal at the end where they all actually seem to care about him and will miss him had a much bigger impact on me because I had grown to like him and almost dislike the other people around him because he was so likable. I would love for my character to have the same effect on the audience as this one because it helps so much when trying to connect with the film. Overall I found it hard to spot any flaws in this film, the script was very interesting, the idea was fresh and something I had not really seen before and the character building was impecable.

Journey: Drama

We have spent the day re-editing the script to make it flow as well as possible and to get the correct balance between showing the protagonists OCD and also showing the boy meets girl aspect of our drama, I will spend the night storyboarding and doing the shot list using the script. We have contingency actors in place for if we cannot get the cast that we really want for the shoot so there should be no problem shooting now. Equipment is all booked out for the weekend and it just remains for me to teach the cameraman how to work the Canon 550D, which is not dis-similar to the kind of cameras he will be used to using anyway.

5 Minute Drama: Journey

First of all an idea had to be formulated for this project and I worked with Will to create the first draft of the basic story. This basic story was of a man with an OCD living his routine and boring life until he meets somebody that makes him change his outlook on life. The journey aspect was supposed to be an emotional journey as the protagonist goes on this mental journey to rid himself of OCD and also build self belief. Also the physical journey aspect comes from the protagonist travelling about during his normal routine. The idea is to build up the protagonists character and make it obvious that he has OCD, we believe that this disorder is rarely covered in films and could be a point of interest to the audience as it is not something you see very often.