Depict '90 Second Man' Textual Analysis Post

Depict '90 Second Man' Textual Analysis

The shot distances used in 90 second man we're mostly standard medium shots. They were not all planned like this though, due to absences and general production problems we encountered, the second half of the film had to be rushed due to us having a short amount of time left to film. So in the end the second half of the film consisted of boring standard medium shots, however in the first half there was some more variance in our shot distances... here a some examples

Here's a close up we used for the very first shot.
We also took into account the rule of thirds to try compose a better shot.

Here's a POV we used for the second, we had it so the shot started out of focus but quickly came into focus to make it seems as if in the POV he really had just opened his eyes.

This is a wide shot we used later on. We filmed 40-50 seconds of me walking across the green and then cut it down and added some cross fades in editing to make the whole walk a smooth 4-5 seconds.

In editing we also used a dissolve effect to make it seem as if I disappeared into thin air. The original idea was to some how fade me out of the shot, but keep in the USB I was holding and have it drop to the ground. However due to limited time, again we couldn't do what we wanted to, do so we ended up just adding in a dissolve transition of one shot with me in it, and one shot without... this is the result;

We also included a match on action when the main character is walking along the road with the lead character  and pulls a USB stick out his pocket;

We did have more match on actions, eye line cuts & shot reverse shots planned in the story board, and there was even another whole two characters planned with lines, however due to the limited time and problems we encountered, this was the only one that ended up in the final cut.




For the sound we also definitely broke some sort of copyright laws by using audio from the 2004 show, LOST. I mean I know this is probably morally wrong and if we were producing an actual proper student film then we would get in a load of trouble with copyright issues, however we completely ran out of time at the end after rushing the filming and editing, so instead of having a near silent film we just ripped the first 90 seconds of audio of LOST S1E1, put it over the footage we had, and it turned out to be near perfect. All the jumps and sudden drums seem to perfectly sync up with whats going on on the screen, and the eerie, ominous background music suits the vibe and feel of the film to. So even though it was complete blatant rip off of JJ Abrams episode 12 years ago... it just sounded too good not to use.