To my knowledge, our film opening introduces a story concept not seen before in any major films. This film is about a veteran who recently returned from deployment and his struggle with PTSD. Like most war related movies, our film will include some war scenes. However, war scenes will not be the focus of our film. Our film will focus on life after the war, war scenes will only serve the purpose of a flashback explaining certain event. Through this, we aim to represent the veterans who fought in war, and illustrate the mental war fought back home. The struggle with PTSD is not often represented correctly although it is a serious social matter. IN the United States, 9% of all homeless people are veterans. This shows how seriously the post-war period can impact veterans
Our film engages with the audience in various ways. We engage the viewer through the use of close-up shots and the plot. The plot of the film opening is quite dramatic and is bound to incite some feelings of reflection in the audience. Close-up shots help show the emotions of the characters, aiding in the delivery of the drama. Families who deal PTSD victims would likely be enticed to watch the film. We will engage with them by doing our best to accurately represent PTSD victims.
Throughout the production of the film opening, my production skills were constantly improving. I saw this mostly in the editing process, however, there was also some improvement while shooting. Since I would do some of the filming, it was important for me to hold the camera steady and effectively capture angles. Throughout the shooting process I saw improvement in my knowledge of angles and severe improvement in how steady I held the camera.
During the editing process, I steadily gained knowledge of the program and constantly improved. When I started editing I was slowly making decisions, and I was not fluent with my use of the program. Over time this changes as I would then quickly import files, cut and adjust videos, apply filters, adjust audio, and much more. Most of these things took me a while to even figure out how to do in the program. By the end, I had amassed much knowledge of the editing process.
The technologies we used were certainly essential to the creation of the film, as they helped facilitate much of the process. For filming we used Artur’s camera which captured the film at a very high resolution. This helps the film seem of higher quality and more sophisticated. For the editing process, I used two programs, Adobe premiere and iMovie. I used both programs because some edits were easier to do on one program than on the other. In Premiere I made most of the effects, cuts, sound adjustment, and organizing. I then imported this version into iMovie. I used iMovie for importing sound effects and for saving the video. This was the easiest way to do it since I am not 100% fluent with Adobe Premiere.
