When thinking about our

narrative, we

Decided that our film followed

the conventions of Todorov‟s

theory. We also used

binary opposites which was the

theory of Levi Strauss.

Todorov‟s theory is having an

equilibrium, disequilibrium and

then an equilibrium. However one

could argue that our film

does not have a final

equilibrium yet overall our film

certainly does have a beginning,

middle and end

The Black ButtonThe Window

After seeing the short film “The Black Button” on

YouTube during our research, we decided to use the

same bright lighting to create a surreal atmosphere

for our film as the narrative of „The Window‟ is more

of a fable or a moral tale therefore we wanted it to

be slightly unrealistic like The Black Button.

During our research we watched hospital

drama Casualty to see what kind of props

we should buy or hire To make our film

authentic. On the left is a photo of some

of our props and on the right is a photo

of the props in Casualty

During our research we watched medical drama „Six Feet Under‟. From

this we Decided to use the idea of a hospital montage including

close ups and tracking shots

Here is the montage sequence from our film next to the

montage sequence from

Six Feet Under

We used

conventional

scrubs outfits

for costume

We watched the

program

„Scrubs‟ to

gain this idea

This gave our

film

authenticity and

also added

colour

We wanted to created synergy between our

poster and our film so we incorporated the

Same font for both which was Prestige.

This is also the font used in our PowerPoint

presentation. We made poster on Photoshop and the

titles for the film on Final Cut Pro

We also wanted to create synergy through the use of

brightness between our Film and poster.

In our film we used an extremely bright light to film with and

for the poster. We used Photoshop to enhance the brightness

and contrast, we used a lot of white

-We wanted to ensure that the genre of our film was clear in our

poster, so we added A hospital red cross to

suggest it‟s a hospital drama.

-We also included two photos of each character one dark, one

light, to emphasise the theme of good vs evil. This therefore

creates synergy between our film and poster.

To help promote our film

we made A magazine review

We looked at other film

magazine Reviews to gain

idea‟s such as Sight And

Sound and Empire

We used a picture still from

our film to help advertise

it

We used Indesign to make

the review As it is easy to

use and effective

One main criticism we received was that the ending of our film

was not quite powerful enough. Therefore we added layers of sound

at the end to emphasise the twist in the story.

Here are two clips of our different endings

We used Final Cut Pro to

edit and shape our film

We first edited the picture

down to 10 minutes and then

top and tailed it down to 5

We also used Final Cut

Pro‟s colour wheel to edit

the colour of the walls

We also used Final

Cut Pro to raise or

lower the sound

levels

SCRIPT

SCHEDULE

CALL

SHEETS

PROPS LIST

INDEX CARDS

CHARACTER BREAKDOWNS

SHOT LISTS

SCENE LIST

AND BREAKDOWN

To film „The Window‟ we used a Sony HDV Camera,

however we used a separate boom to record the

sound

MICROPHONE

SCREEN

LENS

We used PowerPoint presentation to create an

evaluation for our film. Here is a screen flow

video of an effect we created

We used Indesign to create our magazine article,

here is a screen flow of how we used this tool

We used Photoshop to edit

photos for our poster and

magazine article

We used tools such as

brightness, contrast and

colour balance to edit each

photo

We wanted this particular

photo to be bright to

represent good whereas the

photo of Adam was edited to

look dark and gloomy to

represent evil