WEEK 13 – Conclusion

15-10-2023

While our film was uncomfortable to shoot and make, I do think that it also can make audiences uncomfortable. The whole film doesn’t have any dialogue, which means that the story and narrative of the film must be inferred through other audio cues as well as the imagery, visuals and use of colour in the film of the film. I think that forcing audiences to think more critically of how colour as well as its absence is used in the film, makes for an uncomfortable viewing experience in itself. I think that every moment and motion on screen is uncomfortable, from the walks of the actor Jamie to the clunkiness of the camera that comes with reversing the footage. I think by faking how the movement is performed in the film (performing it backwards) the film actually captures a certain grittiness and authenticity which comes hand in hand with the themes that the film explores. I would also like to explore the ideas we had colour more in the film. I think that if we shot scenes that are intentionally very colourful, in black and white and then had colour seep through it would look very cool.

https://vimeo.com/874463356 Shooting super vibrant scenes like in Elsa’s film with our colour idea is something that I would love to have explored.

If I were to continue making my film and continue to make it more uncomfortable I think that my main goal would be to shoot more things backwards. To show what things look like in reverse, such as; animals, smoke/other particles as well as more intricate sequences that are acted out backwards. We had the idea to have a whole cooking scene where the main character makes breakfast and a coffee, but it just proved to be too hard to shoot especially in the limited amount of time we had and in relation to its significance in the film.

I think it would be interesting though to make this film into a fully-fledged feature. We already had a bit of a physics bible/rule book on how things worked in this world, but I think that an ENTIRE feature film performed backwards would be really cool to see and something that I would love to be able to do in the future, because of how uncomfortable it would be to watch and make but also because sometimes things can look really cool reversed.