Last Minute Changes

A couple of days before filming I reviewed my animatic and made a few last minute changes to the construction of the narrative in the opening and changed some shots in order to be able to film it all in one day. The main changed I made was to the characters. Instead of having two different characters I used the same character for both scenes, this was caused by me re-watching my animatic and deciding it was too dull. It felt slow and confusing and the scenes didn't seem related at all. I changed this by using the same character in both scenes.

The opening did not change too much apart from that, it began the same with Dylan (playing both character roles now) entering the shot but instead of acting naturalistic I had him struggling and limping as if he was exhausted and in pain. He slowly makes his way into shot before collapsing onto the bench and looking  around as if checking that he isn't being followed. After looking, he acts relieved and pleased to be finally "free". I decided to have the chase scene as a flashback where the character in the forest scene flinches as if remembering something horrible and it cuts to a flashback of the chase scene where he is running, desperately.

This helped create a clear link between the scenes instead of leaving the viewer feeling disoriented and confused. I felt like this revised version fit the action movie convention more as it opens with the action and although it is clearer what is going on, you are still left wondering what has happened to this person, why they had to run and how they managed to escape.



I did some reseach into flashback scenes in films and looked at what makes a scene clear that it is a flashback. I wanted it to be obvious that this was a flashback so I noted some things about flashback scenes and I hope to copy them when filming mine. 



This is a screenshot of a flashback scene from the action/thriller film "Fissure". I noticed that the colours are hard to distinguish between and the whole shot seems to have a yellow tint. This gives it an aged look that I think fits very well with the flashback and I will try to copy when editing mine. Also, the scene gets darker around the edges with a slight vignette effect that also works very well with the scene, I noted these things and I will try to keep these in mind when filming and editing my chase scenes in order to make it obvious that the chase scene is a flashback as the character remembers what he has gone through.