Creative Critical Reflection 1

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>Script:

The main character (Arran) has just come out of a 5 year jail sentence and discovers his first taste of freedom agin into the real world, but not everything is is as easy going as he/you may seem. He faces many problems and dilemmas once out of jail and the audiences sees the hard hitting reality that he faces (in his personal/social life, work life, mental and physical health) once coming out. The audiences sees what happens to the character: what happens when they face the criminal record on their back for the rest of their life.

Top Line: Arran has done time for stealing from a convenience store and emerges with a new-found determination to go straight. He does not realise how much prejudice he will face and how many setbacks threaten to sink him. He is haunted by his past mistakes. It comes to a head when he is almost tempted back to his old ways, until a chance encounter offers new hope.

The audience encounters both sides of Arran himself, his past and present thoughts and actions. The audiences sees how Kevin tackles these problems that he faces on a day to day basis, after his traumatic situation.

In our filmmaking and editing, we explored ways of creating visual representations of what was developing inside our protagonist’s head. This is integral to the narrative – as he is under such pressure from the stressful thoughts about his past criminal record spoiling his chances of any real future – as well as being an artistic experimentation that attracted us as it promised to lift our filmmaking out of the run of the predictable into more filmic work.

To suggest his inner maelstrom, we took an image of the protagonist into Photoshop and cut the space inside the outline of his head, leaving