Hancock - Dinner Scene

This clip helps me to make a point in relation to my rationale as I think that it isn't what you expect a superheroes "backstory" to be. This shows that Hancock is different from the other superheroes and it also helps us to understand why he is was a "bad superhero" because he himself doesn't seem to think that he is a good person, showing that he isn't perhaps a very confident person which is not what we expect to find in a superhero. Hancock's backstory is also not what we would expect from a superhero, as he doesn't know who he is or how he came to have these powers. This film has a different take on superhero's which is the reason why I have chosen it to be one of the films that I am going to study.

Production Journal

As editor and cinematographer, my job was to get the footage that the director wanted and try to edit it together in the way that the director visioned their film to be. My challenge was the create an effect of sadness and sympathy towards the main character, Ivy. In the making if the film, we went to several different locations, including one location in which we filmed the scene when the younger Ivy, played by Milly Friend, got hit by a car. This place was a good location to film at because it was not too busy, and we could take a couple of different shots of the crash scene without being interrupted. It was also a good location as we could get the crane out and take different shots using that. This scene was inspired by a real life event that happened to the director and her family, Chloe and Milly Friend.

In my role as editor and cinematographer, I aimed to keep the films colouring, quite light to create a the sense of "It was all a dream." This kind of lighting was also used to make get the effect of a flash forward, to what would've happened in the future if this unfortunate turn of events hadn't of happened. For the older Ivy's character, we wanted someone who would be able to act exactly how the director visioned them to. So we thought p that the director herself, Chloe Friend, would be good for the role as she knew exactly what she wanted to get out of the character, Ivy.

During the editing for the film, we realised that for the proposal scene, the sound of the wind, overpowered the sound of the actors talking. I made this mistake during filming by not putting the mic closer to the actors. But in the end the scene worked very well, by editing it together so that only one line is said and the rest of the scene has a sort of montage theme.

On the first day of filming, everything was filmed at our school. This was an advantage as we knew where good places to film were. A problem we had was that the place that we were going to film the office/work scene at, we found was too smaller space to take the shots. So we found a different location around the school and it worked very well for this scene we were trying to produce.

Through this experience I have learned to plan ahead in a lot more detail, so if there are any problems, they can be resolved quickly.