Evaluation: The Necklace.

 Our task was to create a 90 second short film to enter into the DepicT! competition. Our idea for the plot was to create a horror/thriller type of film based around a cursed necklace that was being passed from person to person, causing a series of bad and strange things to happen to whoever had its possession. Our film focuses on the weird happenings of one girl in particular after having the necklace passed to her. After it being planted, she keeps it with her, wears it and then the curse begins to unfold. The film ends after she gets locked in a room and throws the necklace to the ground in realization that everything was fine until she found it. After this, the door is unlocked and she if free from the curse. I think our plot was a good and original idea, with a lot of thought behind how we could make it work and develop into a short film.

We each assigned ourselves different parts of the pre-production process to take care of each and tried to distribute the work as equally as possible, making sure everyone had something to do in order to ensure we didn’t fall behind and were able to start filming as soon as possible.
Once we began working, we noticed that despite making an effort to see that the pre-production work was done in time and effectively, we ended up discovering a few flaws within that work causing us to struggle with the timing of our shots and scenes meaning that when it came down to editing, we were unable to keep all of the scenes we originally wanted to. This meant we had to cut a lot of our initial ideas either out completely or down by quite a lot in order to fit into the requirements of a 90 second film.

My role in the film was helping to create the initial idea, writing the proposal, working on the shot list and acting as the cursed girl in the film itself.

I felt that despite our struggle with the timing of our shots, we still managed to succeed in sticking to our original plan of the story, and the changes that were made I feel ended up as better scenes anyway, flowing better and making more sense within the story. Next time, I’d still ensure that I checked the practicality of my shot list to avoid similar problems so that the work process was more efficient and simpler. I’d also try harder to maintain continuity.