Evaluation

Overall, I believe that the whole film went well, the use of mise-en-scene passed expectations. The colour, for example in the second scene, while walking home matched the whole skeptical feel. Orange street lights on a dark night were able to create a cold and virtually uncomfortable feel. Lighting in the climax, with Danny Kitchen being killed, worked well with the whole dramatic feel. Red and blue while walking was able to represent good vs bad, bad being up top. The low key in this room also gave an unnatural feel to the scene. Contrasting with the high-key and real life lighting. Setting: the tunnel, alert ways, small room, dark streets, worked well with the dark, dramatic and formal feel of the movie. We all worked hard together on this movie, from filming, getting resources, locations correct, people and the painful process of editing the whole group remained well; adding input to what could be done with angles, shots, and how somethings could have been done differently while keeping an open mind. The film turned out as well as we hoped as it fulfilled its dramatic and eerie telos of any dramatic conventional film. We enjoyed shooting, editing and acting throughout.

Moodboard

Cinematic Ideas

The most of this short film will be filmed during the night time to reflect the whole darkness and eeriness of the dream to inflict emotions of sadness and melancholia. Some scenes will be shot during the day, this will create a distinction between the real world and the dream, with dark being the dream and light during the real world. General locations of the film will be in lonesome and deserted areas such as 'the abandoned bridge' in Weddington as well as 'desert' which is deserted flat land with trees and woods within the general Sandon region. These locations will be used during night time. In the daytime areas such as town which can vary in population will be used to make these sequences more cosy and relatable to real life. White shirts will be worn within the dream segments, however this will change over the course of the film; resembling how the purity of the character is lost. In the dream world, influences of lighter colours such as pink and yellow will be included to add to the current effect of reality hitting him that what he has done in the dream has reflected its way into real life. The performance of the main character will be relatable to those of a psychopath with little expression shown, paleness on the face and dyed pink hair, like that of a crazed and nihilistic person. Other actors would have to express human emotion which is natural to that of a person in trouble; expressing emotion. Lighting will have to be natural, however there will have to be influences of torches and lamps to: 1. Create shadows and 2. For the audience to be able to see what is going on for each scene during the night time.

Synopsis

Lucid Dream
Horror/Drama


The film opens up to a startling scene where a teenager is walking home from college, in broad daylight, is robbed of his money and resources in an alleyway behind shops. Powerless and frustrated he walks down the cold streets alone and with great melancholia. His house, which is small and untidy in which he rests.
His dream is shown, where he is in a mans house, with no intention or reason he walks upstairs and smothers him with a pillow, killing him. Capturing the strange imagination and borderline psychopathic traits of the character. Meanwhile, in real life the person he is suffocating is dying, they are unable to breathe as what happens in the main character's dream is, too, what happens in real life.
In the next dream, we are shown  the character who robbed the lead protagonist and the protagonist, one walking towards the other in a wretched and old tunnel. As they head in both directions the tension builds as the protagonist murders his thief. Now powerless the thief dies in this dream... but is he to die in real life?