Charlotte's Coursework

Using a green screen, we filmed me talking to empty space outside and in front of the green screen then I combined the two to create the effect that I was talking to myself.

Using footage of William on a green screen I made a smaller and larger version of him, one dancing in the sky and the other looking up at him from the ground. I did this by using the 'crop', 'ultra key', and 'motion' tool.

Firstly, I placed the video of William over the video of the stage and locked the 'video 1' section. To create the effect of William being a giant on stage I used the crop tool and adjusted the percentage of left, top, right and bottom.

How does your film conform to the conventions of the film movement you chose?   The film movement that I chose was self-reflexive documentary and the main source of inspiration for the film was 2012 self-reflexive documentary by Sarah Polley, The Stories We Tell. Similarly to The Stories We Tell the genre was easily identified throughout due to the fact that many of the techniques that I used have connotations with self-reflexive documentaries. For instance, within my film I used archive footage in order to illustrate the strong relationship with my mother and my brother therefore fulfilling another convention of self-reflexive documentary which is to make it personal and emotive. In addition to this, I filmed the technical aspects of how the documentary is made by showing camera and lighting equipment in order to highlight how self-reflexive documentaries are real life which ultimately makes the content of the film more relatable. Furthermore, I, as the film maker, inter...