J.Van Tulleken’s The Transaction (2009)
Inspired our use of black and white to convey simplicity and generate a magical and mysterious mood.
Our use of black and white caused a debate within our target audience: ‘a bit cliché using black and white’, but another response reported that the ‘black and white sets the mood, I really liked it!’ This caused us to introduce colour during the ending sequence, which was praised by our target audience: ‘the colour suggested that she was moving away from the situation’ and ‘loved how it was illustrated through colour’. We felt that the colour really up-lifts the film and creates an almost happy ending for the audience, which sometimes social realism does not like to offer their audiences. However, we felt that we had to offer some sort of closure for our audience being a short film.
With all this research, I could apply this knowledge into our film. Here are some short webcam videos I made, which talk about our use of sound, mise en scene and camerawork.
Sound
We wanted to emphasise this emotional narrative by using a non-diegetic soundtrack, which reflected a moment of mysterious glumness between the two characters. This reinforced one of the main conventions of the social realism film by using unsigned/unknown band material, which could convey a particular mood within the frames.
Our non-diegetic soundtrack supported many difficult sequences, which were very hard to rectify so we decided to use the music as a sound-bridge. This occurred during the green-screen sequences, including the birds’ eye view of Amie and Rich looking at the sky and the long shot of the pair together.
Emma Robertson
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