Another review....

Evaluation

I asked a few people to review my film and this is what they came up with.....

Final Version of Changing Faces

This is the final version of 'Changing Faces', I have added the ambient sound to the opening credits. I tried to add in whispers, but I felt that it did not necessarily fit with the image on the screen. Also, others have used 'whisper' sounds so I didn't want my film to give of the same atmosphere and impression as others have.

The mask fading into the eye makes reference to a film I watched before I began filming, 'Psycho'. When the lady is stabbed the camera focuses on her open eye and then fades slowly into the blood and water draining down the plug hole.

Also, the change from black and white/sepia, which features in the girls dream, compared to the colour when she wakes up, shows the audience the contrast from dream to real life. Yet the reason the dream is in black and white is due to the fact black and white dreams tend to be psychic dreams. In this instance, the girls dream foreshadows the end of the film, resulting in her death.

The speeding up of the dream shows the confusion towards the end of the dream and her escaping and re-thinking what she has seen.

Opening of film...so far

This is not the final version of my film as I still need to add in ambient sound and voices to the opening credits.

Final filming...explained

The opening of my film does not display an equilibrium beginning. It begins in a disequilibrium way which leaves the audience confused and disorientated. Therefore after the 'dream' my film will continue with an equilibrium story line, explaining the disequilibrium opening.

From watching different horror/thriller films i have duplicated different parts of each of these films. For example, the lack of continuity can be related to 'The Ring tape', with its montage editing. Also the hand held camera shots link back to 'The Blair Witch Project.' I believe my film would be seen as a 'serialist' film, due to its' disequilibrium beginning. Another film that links to my opening is 'The Orphan', this has a disequilibrium opening, through the use of a dream, just like my film does. This definatly left me confused when I watched 'The Orphan' and rather spooked. I am hoping to create the same effect with the opening of my film.

I have chosen to shoot the opening in black and white, due to the fact that I did some research on dreams and found out this little story:

'Everyone dreams in black and white occasionally and they are in fact psychic dreams. Many people may not remember these dreams and most of them become reality and more like deja-vu.'

This is why I chose to film in black and white as the dream which features in the opening of my film does become reality towards the end of my film.

Whilst experimenting and editing my film, I did not realise that my film suddenly became a series of montage editing, random shots quickly edited together. Eisenstein and Hitchcock, two horror/thriller directors tended to use a series of unjustified cuts. Using montage editing creates a lack of continuity which tends to happen when a person dreams.