Aims and Context

My film is about a student who accidentally runs over a girl when answering his phone from the passenger seat. He is emotionally depressed and filled with sorrow, and has also been isolated within the community. The boy is haunted by the ghost of the girl, which will be represented in scenes, until finally the boy admits to what he has done to himself.


Aims: Using cinematography to portray the main character, the protagonist, I plan to portray the main character as a isolated wreck. I will accomplish this using a range of long shots and wide shots, both which will only show the main character in selected scenes. Another idea is to in selected scenes keep a distance to that of the character in shot (the protagonist) and the camera/audience, the reason I will do this is to emphasise the isolation this character has with the rest of the world including the audience itself.

I will also use sound as a second stylistic to emphasise the mood of the scene. Using different instrumental to set different tones for individual scenes. There is a strong possibility that I will only use instrumental or only briefly involve vocals, that could be perhaps relevant to the sequence, I plan keep vocals in the music video to a minimum in fear that the sequence becomes that off a music video.

I also aim to, using conventions of a flashback to portray a realistic and distinguishable flashback scene, which unfolds the disruption within my film.

I will keep the above in mind, when I think about my target audience, the sequence will be designed for a audience of 15+, as the sequence will contain problems which younger people might face and be able to relate to, in the sense of being emotionally stranded.

Context: A short film 3-5 minutes long called ‘Crash’, the short film will be a Melodrama, as it focuses around a main character and having strong emotional themes.