'The Journey' Ideas/Thoughts 15

   I've recently watched the Alfred Hitchcock film 'Psyco' and have realised how similar the film is to my one. The character Norman Bates is similar to my main character. They are similar with how you assume they both are a good people, then through the story, also through foreshadowing you realise that they are actually a bad person. I would like to use similar foreshadowing techniques that Alfred Hitchcock has used as I want to create the same effect that he did.

  In the film I made for 'The Meeting' I had a similar twist, which changed the mood of the overall film. But in 'The Meeting' the twist came out of nowhere, and not in a good way. It happened so suddenly that the audience didn't have time to take it all in, so for 'The Journey' I am going to use foreshadowing to make the twist sink in quicker so that the audience will fully understand what is happening on screen. 

'The Journey' Ideas/Thoughts 14

   I have a big idea that I want to try with the editing. With the scenes where the main character gets ready to go out and collect the package, I want to have the screen cut into four and have four separate sequences happening at the same time. All of these sequences will be of the main character getting ready to go out and going to the meeting place. I am going to make it all jell well together by showing what the main character is doing not all at once. So for example, He may start on the first screen getting out of bed, the second screen will be putting on a shirt, third screen he will be brushing his teeth and he will be picking up his jacket getting ready to leave in the fourth.
   A good visual example of what I am looking to achieve is where this editing technique is used in the Noel Clarke film ‘Adulthood’. The use of this technique in the film is a little bit different from the way I wanted to use it as I wanted the screen to be separated equally into four squares, while in ‘Adulthood’ they are in uneven segments constantly moving and overlapping each other. At the same time the way it flows in ‘Adulthood’ is done smoothly and flows well. This may work for my film but I have got to ensure it doesn’t distract the audience from the story and what is happening on screen, instead of focusing on fancy effects. To ensure it does not distract the audience, I am going to have all the footage shown to be at a slower pace. I have decided to do this as it will be easier for the audience to take in everything they are seeing on the screen and to draw the audience into the film.