DepicT! Textual Analysis

DepicT! 90 Second Short - Textual Analysis:

We were tasked with creating a 90 second short film for the DepicT! film making competition, Our 90 second short is called 'Barking up the wrong tree'.

Camera Use:

This is one of the first shots in our film. In this scene we have the main character lift his arm up to the camera making it look as if he is checking the time. This is important because this lets the audience know that the film is a point of view, or POV, film. Lifting the arm up to the camera is also important for a POV film because it gives the affect as if he is genuinely looking at his watch.



In this shot is one of two worms eye view shots in our 90 second production. The effect of having a worms eye view in the shot is because the main character has been shot and has fallen to the ground, he then looks up to the villain which shows that he is superior, and the main character is inferior.





Here is the second worms eye view that is in our 90 second short. In this scene we have the main character waking up from just being tasered by an unknown stranger. He is lying on the floor because it makes the surroundings look big and it makes the main character look small, and our main character is being hunted, so he is supposed to be inferior.



In this scene there is a slight turn of events, the previous two shots have been worms eye views, symbolizing how the main character is inferior has he is being hunted, but in this scene we see the villain being knocked down to the ground with the gun taken from his hand by the main character. This shows how for a moment the main character has control over the villain and is the superior one.


Shot Distance:
Because our film is a POV film, this means we only have one continuous shot throughout the whole video.
Camera Movement:
The only camera movements we have in our 90 second short is tracking forwards, and a wipe pan, for when the main character hears gun shots to the left of him, which startles him. And obviously the forwards tacking is because he is running most of the time during the film.

Editing:

A lot of our film has been edited as we have gone for a 'found footage' effect. For example here we have a static TV overlay that we have added in during every cut, to show that our footage is broken, which gives all the more creepy atmosphere.

Here we can see the static effect fading into a
scene in which our main character is running through a field, this one of the many fades we used during our 90 second short. Every TV static effect we have will fade in and then fade out again, we do this so there is a smooth transition between each scene.





We added in a turn off effect as well at the very end of our film after the main character dies, this shows that the camera has shut off for the final time.






As we can see here there is a red outline around the border of the screen, we added this in because the main character has just been shot. The next photo is when the main character is on the floor about to be killed.





We added in blood dripping down his face because we originally were supposed to have the main character look down at his stomach to see blood, we were going to use fake blood but as we weren't able to obtain some in time, we had to use edited blood instead.






We even went to the extent of adding tiny details like the blurs in the corner of the screen when the villain gets hit by the gun, because if the more details like this are added, it looks so much better.

Mise-en-scene:

Props:
In our film we used a few props, which include; 2 masks and an air soft gun. We chose these props because we wanted our film to be as tense as possible throughout the whole 90 seconds. So a creepy clown mask and a gun will definitely cause that tension.

Setting:
We used a forest for our 90 second short because the main character is being chased and hunted and to show that feeling of tension, we thought the best idea to do that, was to use a forest. We initially wanted to film during dusk but we were unable to see anything and the camera did not pick up clear footage, so we had to film during the day.


Lighting:
The lighting that was used during our film was all natural lighting from the sun. As we were outside filming everything there was really no need for any motivated light.





Sound:
All of our film is made of of sound effects added in via the editing software because the Go Pro camera did not pick up any sound, so we either had to add it in or create our own sounds, we even added in the tiny little sounds that may not be noticed when you first watch it, but will still make the whole video come together.