Directions Unit: My shoot

For my shoot, I had some trouble in securing a location, as i needed a body of water that was relatively isolated, and there are not many of those where I live,which they needed to be for easier access. The location that I chose was Milton Country park fishing lakes ( see Directions unit: Filming setting ), as it was isolated enough to have minimal background noise, and had a setting that was similar to the original film, 'The Gift'

These are the props that i used when trying to make some sounds for my film.

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Documentary unit: Script first draft

Documentary unit: Interview questions

Kirsty interview Jackie interview

Decision evaluation

Decision evaluation During the writing phase, I drew inspiration from the surroundings at my dad’s house, as there is an orchard on one side and a field on the other. This inspired me because I could imagine something happening within the orchard, and no one knowing due to them being well hidden. This was the starting point for my script, so I needed to develop a story from this. The idea of a murder came from the effectiveness of the orchard hiding whoever was in it, so I thought that this was the perfect place for a murderer to commit his crime. In wanted my story to have a twist, so I thought of a person stumbling across the murder scene, and the killer giving the innocent person a choice of either possible death, or helping with the body and walking away. I thought that this was a good idea as it is a scenario not often seen in films, so was a unique twist. Between the scripts that I wrote for my short film ‘Decision’, I had to change quite a lot in order to make it more e...

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