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“Where have I been all of your life?” Mise-en-scene The film setting is in a car at the beginning and then moves into a normal-looking street where it then transitions inside of one of the houses as the narrative continues. This is effective as it creates a very real and true to life feeling as a documentary should. There are also no major distractions in the setting to bring the audiences attention away from the narrative. Character expressions are typically surprise when the father finds out he has a long-lost son, as well as the look of horror on his wife’s face when she finds out that he cheated on her years ago. This point can also be conveyed through her snappy and aggressive movements too. Props haven’t been used too much in this short film except for the paper showing the address of the house, which initially is read incorrectly which adds to the story. All the lighting used in the whole film is natural and soft as the overcast skies are typical English weather. T...

   Overall, I was pleased with the feedback given after my presentation and glad to see that the panellists were on board with the idea. Initially, no of them knew what urban exploring was, which is also another thing I was happy about as part of the documentary is about opening people up to what it involves and why people do it. Therefore, a lot of questions were asked about urbex, which was quite intimidating at first, but it helped me begin constructing a narration which will be played over cinematics of some abandoned buildings. From this presentation, I was able to bring across to the panellists how urbex can be used in a therapeutic way as an escape from reality and entering a different world, due to these buildings being frozen in time. They liked the fact that I was going to be running two narratives at once and the idea of bringing in multiple narrators to briefly tell their stories with urban exploration. However, after I explained about the social and politic...