Lost-Evaluation

Evaluation

Lost is a film about a girl who wakes up and has no idea as to where she is and what she is doing there. Through a series of flashbacks she is able to find her way home.
At the beginning of the film there is an establishing shot of a park bridge, used to show where the short film is set or where it begins. There are then a series of shots including a couple of longs shots, of a girl who is sleeping/unconscious on the floor.  There is then a cut to a close-up go the girls face and during this shot, she begins to wake up and sit up as she regains her thoughts. During these shots the camera has gradually got closer to the girl on the floor, which has been done to make the audience think about what is going on, to then finding out and to create an enigma.

In the sequence we have used some over the shoulder shots to show the audience, the girls point-of -view. This placed the audience in her position, therefore making them feel more sympathetic towards her. Through a series of flashbacks the girl is able to find her way home. The flashbacks are layered with a colour matte at the beginning of each one and I believe this is effective because it distinguished the flashbacks, from the present and it provides a sense of spookiness due to the x-ray being ghostly, which intrigues the audience.
For the audio we have used the sounds that was already in the footage and we have also layered the sound of birds singing and chirping over the top, to make the environment around her sound more natural, which is effective, as it is located in park. There is only a little bit of dialogue in the clip and this is in the flashbacks, where the girl and her sister's having an argument and at the end of the sequence, when she returns home. I think including flashback with the argument was a good idea because it provides a simple narrative that was easy to develop, rather than her just being, and he audience not knowing why she could be there in the first place.
Throughout the video there are a lot of cross-fades and dip-to-black-fades. This has been done because they are interesting and they are less abrupt.
We decided to end the film with an enigma as the audience don't know what happens between the two sisters and they end up not finding out how she actually ended up passed out on the pavement. I believe this was a good way to end the film because, it makes the audience think about the characters and what could has actually between them and I also it was simple and the audience were able to understand the narrative, which is an accomplishment.