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   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...

My current idea is to create a documentary on Urban Exploration, making it from the perspcetive of myself. Essentially, I want to make it quite a personal short film and bring in my own experiences and document my journey through this hobby and how it's changed me. I could use some archived footage I have from early on in my exploring life and could use comparisons between then and now to demonstrate progress. I'm thinking I could use some dialogue or narration over the documentary, but I'm still deciding whether it would compliment the visuals and if it should be me or someone else etc. I also want to be more ambitious with the cinematography choices I make and really show off my camera skills.

Our Re-make                                                            Original For this task, we had to re-create a 40 second short film. Acting could have been better, but in terms of cinematography, it's pretty accurate. We attempted to add in some special FX to create a more dynamic feeling and to add more suspense. I believe it worked for some areas, but not so much for other sections. However, I am pleased with our final outcome considering we spent 2 hours on this task. We kept a majority of the cinematography, except they were slightly more static than the original film due to the fact that we filmed in a small corridor. We had to adapt the mise-en-scene to a school environment, so wearing school clothes, walking down a corridor, and creating a whole school vibe. Editing we tried to keep as similar as the original as possible,...

This was our first attempt at duplicating a character with premier pro. Our aim was to have the character throw the scrunched paper at themselves back.

Overall, the filming aspect of the "love actually" scene went really successfully as I experimented with 

A short horror film opening "heartless woods"