AICE Media Studies

 Hello and welcome back to the Filmer's Guide Podcast where I discuss all things film. If you are new here, I am your host, Reagan Haskell, a short film enthusiast that spends my time creating and directing new ideas to produce into the world. Recently, my team and I have produced a film called An Eye for an Eye, which is about two young girls, Hazel and Vivian, both of which were bullied endlessly by their classmates. One day, they are pushed to their limit and begin to go on a killing spree of everyone who has ever wronged them.  As most of you know, after I produce short films, I like to give a Q and A about the process and my perspective on the film. So, on my Instagram, I told my followers to ask me questions and I will be answering them for you today.  The first question, asked by Percy Harding was, "How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups?" So, I feel like most thriller movies show the perspective of the protagonis

  Thank you so much for watching, I had so much fun filming this!

           One main issue Hayley and I had during our last film was people not understanding the plot. So, this time, we knew it had to be different. Meaning, it had to be clear and easy to get. This is a a main reason we did the bulletin board. As well as the several voice overs. The bulletin helped get a visual. This way, the audience could see the name, picture, and hear what the person did. When filming the death scenes, we also wanted the audience to know who was who. At first, we just put the murders in place of what we put on the bulletin board. But, this was not enough, since there were so many names and plots. So, Hayley and I decided we could place the voiceovers over these scenes. This way there would kind of be a flashback to the bulletin board scene. This method helped remind the audience of what the characters did wrong. These methods worked because when we showed our classmates and family, they instantly understood what was going on.       Another thing we wanted to do i

  When filming and editing this project, several things had to be changed in order to match what we wanted. To begin with, one of our first changes was a side character. Due to a mistake we made while creating the storyboard, we thought Nicholas Wilson was Nicole Wilson. With this mistake, we just changed the character from a boy to a girl. We also changed the outfit they were supposed to be in. The next thing we added onto this was that my friend, Scott, would play one of the males roles, This way Hayley and I did not have to change back in forth to film. During editing, we also realized that the video would be too long, so I had to cut out some scenes. For example, the scenes where we are seen placing the pictures onto the whiteboard. As well as the scene where Hayley and I follow Aaron Nelson into the alley. One scene we added however, was at the end where Vivian is lying in bed and wakes up realizing it was all a dream. This is because Hayley and I felt like the opening sequence di

On the filming day, I brought a variety of costumes in my backpack to school. The class prior to this, Hayley and I sat down and discussed what we thought each character would wear. We also assigned roles to ourselves. This way, it would make it easier for me to know which costumes to bring. On the piece of paper, I wrote that Hazel would have light makeup, be played by Hayley, and would wear sweatpants and a tank top. I also wrote that the murder clothes for Bothe Hazel and Vivian would bee all black, tight clothing. For Vivian, she would wear jorts, a sweater and have a bruised eye for makeup. Jessica Kennedy would be wearing a pencil skirt, tank top and heavier makeup. This would make her appeal to be more intimidating and shown to fit fashion trends. Matt Brown would just wear a hoodie and baggy pants. Since Hayley and I are both girls and have long hair, all of the boys either had to have their hair up, of have a hat/beanie to hid the hair. For Matt, he would wear a baseball cap.

During the filming process, we had to do several takes to get the proper idea. For example, for the bedroom scene, we spent almost an hour on. This is because, we wanted to get several angles. This way, when editing, we would have several switches. In this scene, we ended up having an over the shoulder shot, a two person shot from behind, and a closer over the shoulder shot. To set this up, we had a tripod and were able to leave the phone to record. For the shots that required us to hold it, our friend Scott would.  He also helped me with my makeup for this scene and the other scenes prior. For my makeup, we took Hayley's older sisters eyeshadow palette and added colors such as blue, green, and black. This process took around ten minutes. We also did this before the hallway scene because the rest of the shots will have a black eye. However, as time went on, we slowly removed the makeup. This give the allusion of time passing. For the scenes that required blood, we made fake blood f