Trapped

At first, the idea of creating a 30 shot still movie whilst demonstrating the concepts learnt in class, seemed pretty daunting. Demsa and I decided to be partners in filmmaking and after receiving our movie title "Trapped", the ideas started flowing...


We decided on a scene set on campus, where a deranged young woman wreaks havoc on the staff and students at Griffith University. Wielding a gun, the assailant sneaks into the Learning Centre and quickly rings the alarm, sending the school into lockdown. But before she can strike, two unlikely heroes arrest her.


I thought our use of music (Jaws) was fitting. It displayed the film in an eerie manner, which captured the woman as being mental and delirious. I thought we used a range of shots throughout the film, capturing the essence of time and place as well as who the subject was and why she was there. One shot I was particularly proud of was the big close-up. This is where we saw Desma's eyes up close to the camera, capturing her psycho tendencies and her essence of evil. I also felt we displayed a good amount of headroom throughout the shots as well as keeping in mind the rule of thirds.


One part I wasn’t particularly proud of in the film was the end, where we shot in the hallway and then out in the bushes. It made it hard to know whether anyone was killed during that time and how the woman got from the Learning Centre to hiding in the bushes. I think next time we need to be aware of taking continuous shots so the audience isn’t confused and thinking, "how did we get here?" All in all, I was pretty happy with it and thought we used most of the concepts learnt in class as well as learning some new tech skills and having awesome fun!