The Prisoner Evaluation

It was a lot harder than I first thought to produce a small piece of film like The Prisoner which i did with Kirsty. Firstly, we anotated our script so we knew what shots we wanted, camera angles, how we wanted our actors to deliver the lines, where we wanted them positioned etc. We clearly had a hiccup with filming due to our camera, but that got sorted.

My favourite shot in the Prisoner is when Sam (Number 2) enters as you get a silohette of his head and shoulders and he looks very demeening as we used a low angle shot. It was Kirsty's idea to use the Moby music which we'd seen in the Bourne Ultimatium movie. It stsa good atmosphere for our short film and the identity theme which is in both movies was why we picked it. Using the music throughout The Prisoner makes it much more efeective to watch and makes it sound more proffessional thna it did when we cut the music only to the beginning and end.

Another part I love in The Prisoner is the end when we used the effect of cross-disolve in the editing process so Sam's laughing face in close up would gradually appear over Billy (Number 6) crying. We slowed down Sam's laughing to make his voice sound deeper and scarier but also to make the ending much more dramatic. I also like how we bring the volume of the music back up at the end which overall I beleive gives The Prisoner a very powerful ending.

During editing we did realise that we needed a few more shots; we didn't feel we had enough footage of Billy and also some of the cuts we had to make due to lack of footage meant there are jumps in our editing. We tried our best with the shots we did have and the overall finish doesn't look horrendous! Next time though, we will definatly do more repeats of the same shot to esnure we get an excellenct finished product.