Obsession 3

After discussing it as a group we decided that we definitely needed new footage for the piece filmed at my house. My house was unavailable so we used our actor Artan’s house to film our opening scene again Shanae and I re-recorded the whole footage over again and staged it. We changed it quite a bit compared to the first one.

Shanae came up with the idea of filming the extreme close up of Artan at the beginning of the piece I came up with the idea of the low angle shot and to pan up towards the papers. Also the Heartbeat of the blackness at the beginning was my idea. Our Obsession title remained the same. Shanae and I had come up with the idea of Artan walking to the camera and using match on action then doing a Track behind him into the bathroom to create a subtle but mysterious effect  as we have a few seconds of darkness. Filming Artan at Mid shot while infront of the mirror was tricky since we didn’t want Shanae to be seen with the camera and the match on action used when he washing his face. We used jump cuts as he heard the door to create a tensional feel for the audience of suddenly something is happening and builds the tension also the music is heard for the first time here which adds an extreme amount of tension on the piece. The track from behind Artan towards the room was very effective since we tend to follow him into the mystery of what has happened in his room.

 Some criticism’s I saw was the fact that when Artan gets on the phone it was dragged out for too long. Also, in the other footage Artan says ‘ I need some alone time’ which is very low and you can hardly hear it which we are planning to fix by re-recording his voice and putting it on top of the video. Also at the end in my opinion, we could change it and make it more ambiguous by perhaps having a black screen with just Artans/ ‘Johns’ saying it all gone… This I believe would be way more effective than what we have now. We are going to have a group discussion where we will discuss these and come to some agreement.