Changes in Film

Since I started my project I have made some changes. I focused on documentaries like Supersize Me and The Secrets of Scientology and these really helped me to realise that the most effective thing would be to have a split screen to show the credits and then have an interview with a montage sequence. The split screen has news footage which helps to explain the situation that the film was based on. The idea of having the titles at the beginning of the film also helps to show that the film is based on a situation. Having the footage of the main character lying in a hostage style situation shows a similarity between The Secrets of Scientology which held images of the man in the past whereas for my film the use of black and white is what shows the past and the colour image shows the present situation. What the two colours and the use of a type of flash back shows the idea that the film is not real it shows the idea of the story of the being a story and not a real thing.

As I was looking over my research I realized that I had written about wanting to use a voice over in a part of my documentary. And instead of a voice over I used a part of a news report that introduces the film company that will make my film and then I added the interview scene of my main character and while he was talking there was a cut to different shots to have a kind of montage sequence which is a common feature of documentaries.