Question 1, Evaluation

The title of the film is shown during he opening credits and is revealed slowly over the panning shot of the beach to add suspense and mystery to the scene. The setting that was chose were an almost isolated beach about a thirty minute walk from my house and I followed a typical british film by filming on a location rather than using a set, to save money and because I think it shows a more genuine atmosphere and location for the audience to admire and absorb into so the film is more immersive. Filming on location had an advantage because the atmosphere came across perfectly as the long expanding coast brought across the isolationist feeling that I wanted to be brought across during the filming. The font style I chose for my titles, was a nice straight forward and easily readable font style, with some elegance and grace as it is a very formal font for the viewer to read so they know that the film is going to be tackling a serious subject. The opening sets up the rest of the film to be a suspencing and edge of your seat style joyride trying to guess what will happen next, as the character is searching for any sign of life or an explanation to why or how he woke up on the beach. The shots used mostly are long takes and long shot to add a good sense of time passing and isolation. Characters aren't introduced by names, but rather by their faces which adds a mysterous effect to their persona's as the audience will only know their name when they're mentioned by other characters during the narrative. Special effects that were used were fading which adds to the suspence the audience will feel, as they are slowly revealed to what is coming next, rather than it jumping to other scenes.