Final Film/Critical Analysis

I was personally quite happy with our final film as it created the emotion that we had intended and also managed to fool the audience (Chris - being the only person who did not hear our proposal) into thinking that the actress was in fact a child. Unfortunately for us the emotion we created was not dramatic enough and from the critique we recieved it would appear that a darker tone that suggested an underlying danger or unhappiness would have been more appropriate and also a little bit less predictable. We used a soft acoustic music such as the music used on childrens TV shows in the background of the film as we thought it was very fitting to the film as a whole and worked really well with the footage we had but unfortunately this was also a bad decision as it was considered a safe option and once again a little bit predictable. The music does indeed work really well for this film but is quite overused by film makers in order to create this kind of mood and this meant that we were not really pushing ourselves to make something new and exciting that nobody had seen before. A different mood that was a little darker and more ominous would have most likely improved the film as it was the least conventional approach to take as I believe we got a bit blinded by the intention of making a happy sanctuary for the protagonist and forgotten entirely to add any suggestion of danger for her or suggesting anything about the seriousness of her condition. In conclusion the film seemed to be a bit too light hearted and easy, it was good technically but did not appear to push us in any way. We stayed well in our comfort zone in making this film and did not really try anything new. That said I was happy with how good the film looked visually and it appeared to work well as a short film, being coherant and aesthetically pleasing.