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Creative Reflection

Here is my Creative Reflection on my short film Suspicion Critical Reflection.docx How do your products represent social groups or issues?   My product represents a few social groups in today’s society . Firstly, there are the vast cliques of my audience. One group is detective/police show lovers. Through my plot, which tracks the lives of two detectives, the film represents the classic format that enjoyers of detective movies such as The Fugitive and Hot Fuzz love: two detective partners, a new clue, and a plot twist. The unconventionality of the plot twist, in turns, also represents the growing psychological-thriller audience. In the coming years, psychological thrillers such as Midsummer and Hereditary have caused a stir and made the psychological thriller genre increasingly popular. I created Suspicion to represent this genre and the fanbase that comes along with it; people who appreciate the art of how angles, shots, and story create a thriller.     However, on a more analyt
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Suspicion | AICE Media Short Film

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Exclusive showing at my short film, Suspicion, coming to theaters near you!! I am so proud of this project and how it turned out. I can't wait for you to see it.  Link to SUSPICION website -->  https://zeynalielali.wixsite.com/suspicion Link to SUSPICION postcard --> https://www.canva.com/design/DAF_cMVnl7o/Ley6kMKFpPorfAGlbBpmUw/edit?utm_content=DAF_cMVnl7o&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton                ENJOYYYY!!!
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Excusive First Viewing and Feedback

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     After my short film was finished being edited, it was time to seek a third person point of view. It is fundamental to get a second opinion on any film or artistic work and it often takes an unbiased view to provide unbiased criticizations. A third person can point out aspects you are lacking in, as well as what you have excelled in. For my viewing, I chose my friend, Ariel Pierre, to watch and review as she was in A level Media studies lass year. She brings with her experience and knowledge in movie making that is ideal in reviewing my short film.      So after I showed her my short film on Capcut, she started to give her critiques. Overall, she liked the plot twist and how it wasn't over stereotypical, but still was shocking enough to film the rest of the film. She liked the slow build up to showing Hoffmans face in the beginning as it made it more suspenseful. Likewise, she liked the sequence of shots that occur when Hoffman chases Reynolds as you also don't see his face
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Music makes or breaks a Film

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     I believe that the most important concept to a film's success is its film score. Without music to properly capture the suspense, excitement, and mood of the story, audiences would never resonate with the emotions of the film. For our film, we wanted the last 30 seconds to include a powerful music score. The music would take place after the two detectives wrestle on the ground and highlight the mystery of who shot who. As the camera pans up at the tress, I wanted a song that captures the peacefulness of the treetops while still being a little mysterious. As the camera pans up to reveal that Detective Reynolds survives, the screen will cut black and the credits will be shown as the music still plays. The music should be able to show the audiences shock and resolution with the plot.      Searching for music is harder than talking about it. I knew that there was no way of getting a popular song with royalties in our film. Because of this, I started to look a royalty-free, online m
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Clips, Sound, and Filters

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     Once I had all the shots filmed, it was time for editing. Zeyn sent all the shots we filmed from his phone to my email, from which I downloaded them onto my computer. I then made a new Capcut account so both Zane and I could edit on later and uploaded the videos on the project space. The uploading of all the shots took a while as five minutes worth of film takes a while to fully download and sometimes glitches. Because of this I took two to three breaks to let the Capcut program settle. I then put all the shots in their proper order for which I used the storyboard. I then cropped the shots so any time before or after important sequences was eliminated. This brought the time down from 5:25 to 4:58. I knew I needed at least ten seconds at the end for the credits to play, so I double checked if any of the shots could be cropped even more. I gained five seconds by doing this. Now it was time for sound.       The sound for the shots were not significantly terrible, but there were some
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AND ACTION!

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     Day 2 of filming occurred on Wednesday, February 28. Zane, Jason, Zeyn, and I all met up at Zane's house to finish filming. First, we had to finish the car scenes before we moved to the scenes in the park. I stood outside while they drove past me to get the establishing/wide shot. Then I went inside the car to film the dialogue scenes between the two detectives. At one point, Zane had to hold the camera himself to film Jason because we needed a medium shot of just Jason, and I can't position myself to film that from the backseat. Once I was done with the car scenes we parked the car in the park.       I once again got out of the car and started filming from the ground while Zane parked the car for the shot and ran out. This shot where the detective chase starts took some coordination as the car has to park first, then detective Reynolds runs out, then detective Hoffman runs out. The next set of scenes includes the detective running, which Jason complained about because his
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QUIET ON SET...

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  The first day of filming took place on Sunday, February the 25th. Zeyn El Ali, Jason Alexandrescu, and I showed up at Zane Royers house to film. We decided to work chronologically and film the shots in order while crossing them out with a pen. I used Zeyn's phone for filming since he had the best camera quality and storage. After everyone was in costume, we got to work.     I used my fake blood for the first shot and watered it down. I filmed the opening sequence by using Zeyn's phone while Jason crossed out the storyboard. Now it was time to film the coroner's office. I got into my doctor scrubs costume and tied back my purple dyed hair to hide the unprofessionalness. We realized Zane's dinning room table was too unstable for Zeyn to be laying there while playing the dead body, so we used the floor. We used a verity of white sheets to make Zeyn look like a corpse at a morgue, while still being on the floor. I did the bruise makeup on Zeyn's cheek and covered him
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