Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Individual Edit + Feedback

My Edit



Feedback

What was good?
  • There as good continuity, the shots flowed well as the editing was good.
  • Some Enigmas were created. 'Who was the girl with blood on her clothes?'
  • There was a Variety of shots.
  • Effective use of costume to fit Horror genre.

What needs to be improved?
  • There was no music, music could be used effectively to help build up tension.
  • Needs more horror, the clip only made the audience scared or jump in fright a little.
  • There was noise in the background that shouldn't have been there.



Thursday, 17 January 2013

Risk assessment

Some of the things we had to look out for were:
  • Make sure to ask permission from the property owner to film there, and use there location in our video.
  • We had to make sure we didn't create a safety hazard, for example we were splashing water in the bathroom, if it fell on the tiles someone could slip and hurt them selves.
  • Make sure all wires are kept to a side as we could trip on them.
  • When filming in public areas we had to make sure were not in anyone's way and not to leave our equipment unattended.
  • Be careful when filming near roads, be aware of moving cars.

Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Story Board And Shot List

Shot List
1. Company Brand/ Production name.
2. Close up of Bobs alarm clock.
3. Same close up of his arm turning off the alarm clock.
4. His arm still near the alarm clock and phone rings.
5. Establishing shot of his bedroom, while under the covers and on the phone.
6. Close up of wall behind the bed – producers name etc comes up.
7. Medium shot of the camera moving down to headboard and of him under the covers.
8. Point of view as he lifts off the covers and blurry vision of the ceiling.
9. Point of view of him putting his slippers on.
10. Medium shot of his back walking towards the bathroom.
11. 2 Match on action shots from bedroom to corridor and from corridor to bathroom.
12. Establishing shot of him in the bathroom with the door closed.
13. Point of view of  him looking the mirror.
14. Point of view of him looking down at his hands and sees blood.
15. Tries to wash out blood.
16. Medium shot of him panicking, no blood.
17. Point of view of him looking in the mirror, no blood in the reflection.
18. Close up shot of  him washing his face and then drying.
19. Background changes to bedroom.
20. Close up shot of him getting ready.
21. Match on action, leaving bedroom.
22. Medium shot of him running down the stairs.
23. Match on action of him going out the door and locking the door.
24. Medium shot of him turning half way.
25. Point of view of a a dead looking man outside his house.
26. Close up of facial expression and keys drop.
27. Point of view, looks at keys – blur for a second and then goes clear.
28. Point of view, looks up.
29. Establishing shot of him walking down the road.
30. Medium shot of a crowd of people, tries to push through to front.
31. Point of view of traffic lights, cars and fades into a blur.  
32. Point of view of him blinking to get his vision back and looks at girl wrapped around lamppost.
33. Medium shot of him running towards the lamppost.
34. Point of view, blurry vision starts to fade.
35. Close up of someone bumping into her, becomes distracted.
36. Point of view of the girl that has disappeared.
37. Crane shot of him looking around, walks into the station.
38. Background changes and he waits for train.
39. Long shot of train approaching the platform
40. Medium shot of him getting onto the train and she sits down.
41. Medium shot of him putting his headphones, train leaves.
42. Point of view of dead body flashing opposite him.
43. Point of view of him, scared as he looks around for people but they have disappeared.
44. Close up of his eyes.
45. Flashback of a knife.
46. Medium shot of no dead body and people on the train.
47. Medium shot of him running towards the door.
48. Point of view of him pressing the button frantically (double vision).
49. Medium shot of him pressing the button.
50. Match on action of him running out, pushing through the crowd.
51. Medium shot of him bumping into the hypnotist.
52. Point of view of him heavy breathing, looks up and sees hypnotist.
53. Medium shot of hypnotist leaving on train.



Story Board










Monday, 31 December 2012

Group Blocked Plan


- Alarm clock rings at the same time, receives a phone call telling him to wake up and come to station by a friend.
- Main character wake up from bed and vision of his room is blurry.
- Puts on slippers and heads toward the bathroom.
-Brushes Teeth and is washing hands, sees blood on his hands so frantically starts washing his hands, glances at the mirror for a split second and looks down again and sees no blood.
-Washes face and is drying with towel
-As the towel covers the screen, when the towel comes down off his face the scene has changed back to his bedroom
-Gets change and Runs downstairs while putting on tie.
- Unlocks the door, turns back round to lock it and turns around but sees a scary Zombie person.
- Film journey to train station
- Film him walking down the road and comes to a stop.
- About to cross the road but starts to hear voices, feels dizzy until someone budges past him and he is back to normal.
- Taps in at station and walks to the platform.
- He sits in the train and a flash of a dead body appears next to him.
- The arm of the dead body touching him and he has a flash back of him putting on gloves and sharpening knives.
-The screen Blacks out.

Thursday, 27 December 2012

Group Plot-Todorov's structure

As we had made our decision as a group on what our concept should be we now moved on to develop our plot.

Equilibrium - A group of students wake up and get ready to go to university. They brush they teeth and get ready as they do every morning.

Disruption - The Group of friends go to a nearby hypnotist show. One of the friends, 'Jason' was targeted by the hypnotist and was hypnotized in the audience without no one noticing him do so. 'Bob' begins to sleep walk, but this isn't normal sleep walking, as 'Bob' kills people in his sleep but has no memory of doing so.

Recognition - 'Bob' begins to have flashbacks of the events that take place during his sleep, he realises the horrific things that he is doing, that he is murderer. He has no choice but to turn to his friends for help, they try to figure out whats wrong with him.

Repair - They realise the murders only began after the hypnotist show as 'Bob' sees flashes of the hypnotist in his dreams, so the group go out to find this man and to put a stop to the murders. However they cant find the hypnotist as he left town without a trace. 'Bob' tries to stay awake as long as he can but falls asleep. He attacks his friends and his friends have no choice but to kill him.

Return - After 'Bob' funeral, the friends make there way back to there homes and try to return to normal university life.

Friday, 21 December 2012

What makes a good Story?(Todorov's structure)

Todorov believed that every story has a 5 stage narrative structure to it.

Stage 1: Equilibrium, this is what is 'normal' life for the characters, what they do on a day to day basis.

Stage 2: Disruption, this is something that causes a disruption in the characters 'normal' life.

Stage 3: Recognition, this is when the characters realise what the disruption in there lives is and they plan to resolve the issue.

Stage 4: Repair, this is when action is taken by the characters to resolve the Disruption.

Stage 5: Return, this when the characters return to the equilibrium, 'normal' life is restored or they establish a new normality.

Example 1: 'Finding Nemo'(click here to view trailer)

Equilibrium: 'Marlin'(Nemos' dad, fish) is very anxious about 'Nemo 'being independent, 'Nemo' is embarrassed of his Dad.

Disruption: 'Nemo' gets caught by human divers and is taken away.

Recognition: 'Marlin realises 'Nemo' is lost, he panics and then decides to search for his son; meanwhile 'Nemo' realises he is captive and plans his escape back to the ocean.

Repair: 'Marlin' puts his plan into action and swims across the ocean to find his son, he finds Nemo.

Return: 'Marlin' and 'Nemo' are reunited, they return to their home. 'Marlin' is now less anxious and allows 'Nemo' to be more independent, 'Nemo' is no longer embarrassed of his father, instead he sees him as a Hero.

Example 2: 'Immortals'(click here to view trailer)

Equilibrium: 'Theseus' is living his normal life as a peasant with his mother, they live in a small village in Greece.

Disruption: 'Theseus' mum is murdered, his village is destroyed, others in his community are killed however he is held captive and accepts defeat.

Recognition: 'The Oracle' saves him as she see's him in a vision, after escape captivity, they plan to stop the evil King from releasing the Titans.

Repair: They confront the King, however he manages to release the Titans, The Gods come down from heaven to aid 'Theseus', They fight the Titans and stop them from being released into the Mortal World. 'Theseus' Kills the Evil King.

Return: 'Theseus' dies as a Hero and  is given a place in Heaven as an immortal, He is also gifted with a Son. The Son lives on earth with his mother 'The Oracle' While 'Theseus' is up in the heavens fighting the war against 'The Titans'.


Sunday, 16 December 2012

Title Sequences

A title Sequence is usually presented at the start of a movie, this helps set the tone at the start of the movie.

Here are some of the conventions of a title sequence:

Theme Music- Many Title sequences have some kind of theme music that is linked to the main characters, when the audience hears this music they know the character is coming, for example James Bond has his own theme music which is shown in James Bond Dr. No title sequence and again in James Bone Tomorrow Never Dies title sequence. This theme music is played regularly in all James Bond movies.









Names of cast and crew - Every title sequence has the name of the Producer, Director, Main actors in the movie, and some of the crew. These names are usually placed on top of the images we see in the title sequence. We can see examples of this in all title sequences.

Distributors -These companies are the people that sell/advertise the film  before and after the films release. They  are shown at the start of the  title sequence. Here are some well known Distributors.



Title of Film - Every title sequence shows the name of the Film usually near the start of the movie but sometimes at the end to.




Enigmas - Enigmas are questions which the audience wants answers to. Title sequences use images and sound to create Enigmas. The more Enigmas a title sequence has the more likely the audience are to continue watching the film as they want the answers to all there questions.




Title Sequence analysis

Cirque Du freak

Shot
Shot 1 - The first thing were shown is the name of the distributor, Universal pictures is well known in the movie industry so the audience are likely to recognise the name and link it to past films they've seen.
Shot 2 - Were shown the title soon after as the audience need to know what their watching so they can refer to the film by its title after the movie.
Shot 3 - Shows us the name of an actor, again some would recognise the name and link it to past films they've seen, if they liked the movie the actor was in before then they would be thinking positive about this movie, however if they dislike the actor they may get put off. The shot shows a Grave yard after zooming into a mans mouth, the man is most likely to played by the actor 'John C. Reilly' and the mouth of the man having 2 big sharp teeth tells us the plot involves vampires.
Shot 4 - We see a Spider which shoots its web and the name 'Chis Massoglia', another actor. We see the spider and its web a few times so the spider is also likely a key part of the plot.
Shot 5 - We see two people running from something and shadows trying to catch them, they have strings attached to them like puppets. We see them running throughout the title sequence so they must represent the two main characters, they must spend most of the film running from something chasing them. This creates Enigmas like who are they running from and why are they running?
Shot 6 - We see the name of a crew member  'Special effects supervisor Todd Shifflet', we also see a woman with lots of hair on her chin, this tells us that there's probably a bearded lady in the 'cirque du freak'.
Shot 7 - We see a graveyard and the names of the executive producers on the gravestones. This makes us think the film will be set in a graveyard and there's lots of death to come.
Shot 8 - We see the name the writer who wrote the original book that the movie was based.
Shot 9 - A shot of a puppeteer who is pulling the strings of the two characters we see running throughout the title sequence. We wonder who is, he is in control of them so he must be another key character in the film.


Catch Me If You Can

Shot 1 - In the first shot we see the name of the production company, 'Dream works pictures'.
Shot 2 - Were introduced to character walking, hes played by a well known actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
Shot 3 - In this shot were introduced to another character, played by the actor Tom Hanks, he is looking at Leonardo DiCaprio's character.
Shot 4 - After we See Tom Hanks Chase Leonardo DiCaprio the title comes up, 'Catch me if you can'. The title links to the chase in the title sequence.
Shot 5 -We see a police car chasing a taxi, we assume this is Tom Hanks chasing Leonardo DiCaprio. We also see a name of another member of the cast Martin Sheen.
Shot 6 - We see a character swimming in a pool and a woman sitting by the pool and the name Amy Adams.
Shot 7 - In this shot we see One character running from the scene dressed as doctor and a detective talking to the nurse and looking for the Doctor. We also the names of other cast and crew members.
Shot 8 - We see a party and Big Piano, we also see who made the music John Williams which links to the Piano.
Shot 9 - We see the detective chasing the man again and another crew members name, Screenplay by Jeff Nathanson.

A lot of Enigmas are created. Why is he running? Why is he dressed as an airline pilot and then a doctor? Who are the Women? Why are the police chasing him? What did he do?
These questions intrigue the audience and makes them watch on.








Saturday, 8 December 2012

Film Concept Development

 Individual concept






















My group and I decided not to use my concept as none of us were intrigued by it so we decided to work together to come with a completely different concept.

Group concept development
We decided we wanted to do a horror movie and came up with a number of different ideas for this. First we thought of doing a movie about demons and demonic possessions. However, there are already a lot of movies out that have a similar concept. As we wanted to something more original. we decided to think again. I then came up with idea of following the life of a priest who goes out and performs exorcisms on possessed people regularly. We could show how this 'job' or 'duty' effects his life and the risks and troubles he goes through facing these evil demons. But my group members weren't keen on the idea so we came up with another one.

Final Concept
After a long discussion we came to an agreement of this concept.
A hypnotist, hypnotizes a university student, the student begins to act in strange ways while he's asleep but he never realizes what he's done. The genre of this movie will be thriller/horror. The main target audience will be 15-25 year old's as the main character is a young adult so we want to target an audience of a similar age group as they would be able to relate to the character in some ways. We had some inspirations for this Film concept from the Scream movies as they also involve a serial killer, so we took the idea of the a serial killer and tweaked it to make them the victim instead of the villain which is one of the unique selling points of our film concept. Another unique selling point was that there aren't many movies that come to mind involving a hypnotist. We all thought this was a good concept idea so we decided to ask some people outside of our group what they thought of our film concept.

Here's what we found...


After our audience research we decided to keep our Final Film concept the same.






Sunday, 2 December 2012

Research-Horror Genre

After researching into the Horror Genre, this is what I found:
Horror film is a genre that aims to create a sense of fear, panic, alarm, and dread for the audience. These films are often unsettling and rely on scaring the audience through a portrayal of their worst fears and nightmares. Horror films usually center on the arrival of an evil force, person, or event. Many Horror films include mythical creatures such as ghosts, vampires, and zombies. Traditionally, Horror films incorporate a large amount of violence and gore into the plot.

 

Examples of Horror Film:


(click titles to view trailers)
A Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy Krueger, an evil being from another world, stalks a group of teenagers and kills them through their dreams.
Saw - Two men are held hostage by a psychopath, who is set on teaching his victims the value of life by putting them into demented life or death games.
Friday the 13th - While trying to re-open a summer camp, a group of camp counselors are mysteriously murdered by a machete swinging slasher.

Sub-genres of Horror:

Comedy-Horror
Comedy-Horror combines comedy with traditional horror movie themes and characters. Comedy-Horror films aim to scare the audience, but also provide comical outlets that let the audience laugh at their fear.
Examples: Beetlejuice, Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead.

Teen-Horror
Teen-Horror is a sub-genre that revolves completely around a teenager or a group of teenagers. Typically, these movies have a large cast and a clear hero or heroine. Teen-Horror films often play upon traditional teenage issues, such as dating and prom, and turn them into suspenseful and thrilling situations.
Examples: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Monster-Horror
A Monster film is sub-genre of Horror that centers on a struggle between human beings and a monster(s). Often, the monster in the film has been created in an “experiment gone wrong.” The monster usually serves as a villain, and the film portrays a hero or heroine that ultimately saves the world from the monster. Although these movies commonly fall into the Horror genre, Monster films have a long tradition within Science-Fiction and Fantasy film as well.
Examples: Aliens, GodzillaFeast.

Slasher
Slasher film is a sub-genre of Horror film that revolves around a psychopathic killer. This killer stalks and murders his victims in extremely violent and memorable ways. Though it centers on a specific killer, the violence is what sets Slasher films apart from other horror films. A Slasher film will devote more screen time to portray murder and mayhem than a traditional Horror film.
Examples: Halloween, My Bloody Valentine, Black Christmas.

Supernatural-Horror
Supernatural-Horror film is a sub-genre that includes ghosts, demons, or other depictions of supernatural occurrences. Often, Supernatural-Horror films combine elements of religion into the plot. Common themes in Supernatural-Horror films include the afterlife, the devil, and demonic possession. Unlike Religious Thrillers, Supernatural-Horror films are not limited to specific religious elements and can contain more vivid and gruesome violence.
Examples: The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Ring, The Omen.

Zombie-Horror
Zombie film is a sub-genre of Horror film that portrays mindless human beings who are raised from the dead. These films often include a Zombie invasion, and center around Zombies feasting on human flesh. The plot of a Zombie film then revolves around the struggle between the living, and the living-dead. Zombie film not only falls into the Horror genre, but Sci-Fi, Thriller, and Comedy as well.
Examples: Land of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later.

Atmosphere

  • Dark scenes filled with disturbing shadows and strange and alarming props are typically seen in horror movies. These scenes reflect the eerie atmosphere required to create a frightening  mood. These scenes create suspense and viewers can "get the creeps" before the actual horror arrives.

Sound

  • Horror films typically turn normal sound effects into "creepy" sound elements. With good timing, a sudden loud bang or a falling object crashing to the floor will deliver a shock factor. It can also involve a jittery scene set in dead silence, which makes the anticipation of what comes next more frightening. The beat, pacing and instruments of the music help establish tension in horror movies.

Graphic Scenes

  • Most horror films include graphic scenes of explicit gore. These elements typically feature violence caused by humans, monsters or supernatural beings. Computer advancements that started to show up in movies in the late 1980s made it possible for film makers to create convincing special effects. Horror film makers used those special effects to make their scenes of violence more graphic. 1980s and 1990s horror were mostly low-budget slasher films. By the 2000s, horror movies typically featured a torture, murder or revenge theme that created horrific scenes.

Evil Forces

  • A horror movie antagonist can be any type of person, animal or creature that represents some kind of evil force. Some common evil elements as of 2011 are ghosts, werewolves, vampires, demons, vicious animals, cannibals, zombies, masked killers and deranged beings. Victims of these evil forces are usually characters that have apparent weaknesses of character or physicality. They are the underdogs that either fall prey to the evil forces or gather the courage to defeat them.

The Protagonist

  • A horror movie Protagonist is usually a female character. This is because stereotypically, Men think they are able to overcome a threat more readily than a women, also the audience wouldn't be as scared if the protagonist was high school football player/jock because they would feel he can handle the situation by beating up the slasher. However if the Protagonist is Female it would be more effecting in creating suspense, as stereotypically, females are weak, vulnerable and cant protect themselves, so the audience feels having a woman running for her life is a lot more scarier as its more believable that the killer will get her. 

Distributors

Dimension Films distributes well known films of the horror genre such as 'Scream', 'Halloween', 'The Brothers Grim', 'Feast', 'Black Christmas', so we thought they would be a good distributor for our movie as well as New line cinema another well known distributor of 'Friday the 13th', 'A Nightmare on Elm Street', 'Final Destination' and 'Bride of Chucky'. This made them both an obvious choice as our film distributors.

Sunday, 25 November 2012

Film Concepts

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant


The Concept of this Movie is, a teenager, Darren Shan, meets a mysterious man at a freak show who happens to be a vampire. After a series of extraordinary events Darran has to leave his life as a human and learn to live the life of a vampire.



The Genre of this movie is Action Adventure Fantasy. This is because it fulfills conventions from these genres. We can tell its an Action Adventure movie from the fast paced fighting scenes that take place along with the fast paced music and the main characters abilities to endure high levels of pain without dying. For example in this scene we see the fight between Mr. Crepsly and Murlough, the fight is very fast paced and the music to go with it is also fast paced and tense. A fight like this would leave a normal dead however these 2 characters continue fighting and ignoring there injuries. This is typically seen in movies from the Action Adventure Genre.


Its also fits the Fantasy Genre as we see some of the characters have supernatural powers. For example the vampires have the ability to 'Flint' Which is traveling at a very fast speed from one place to another in a few minutes whereas it would take a normal person hours to get to. They also have super spit which allows them to heal wounds instantly. As well as the characters at the cirque that would only be seen in a fantasy world, For example the Bearded lady, Monkey Girl and Wolf man. All mystical characters that fit the fantasy Genre.




The unique selling point here was that this movie is about vampires that are fighting each other, two separated groups of vampires fighting each other, this is unique as there hasn't been another movie like this. Some of the characters in the cirque are also very unique like the 'snake-boy' 'Evra Von', Corma Limbs who has detachable limbs and is able to grow them back at will. The plot line is also unique as there's not a lot of movies about a young vampire like Darran and teenagers will be able to relate to him.

It has some of 'Propp's narratemes' too, For example Darran has to leave his family and home and his normal life, The victim in this movie would be Steve Leonard as he is taken in by deception and helps the villain Murlough as he feels Darran betrayed him. The villain Murlough causes harm to Darrans Family and friends by kidnapping them. Hero is pursued, When Murlough chases Darran and Mr. Crepsly. The Main fight scene when Mr. Crepsly and Murlough have there fight to the death, resulting in Murloughs Death but he is turned into a 'little person'.

In Time(2011)

 

 

 

In Time is set in a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having to work to earn more time. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage and decides to fight against the system that controls there lives.


This is an Action movie as there's a lot of fighting, fire fights and chase scenes throughout the movie so we can tell its of the action genre. Whats unique about this story is the use of time as currency, the people in this fictional world have to use time to pay bills and buy food everyday in there lives, they live off time, if they run out they just. Whats similar is that 'Will Salas' seems like a futuristic 'Robin Hood'. This is because like 'Robin Hood', 'Will Salas' steals time(money) from the Rich and gives it all out to the poor to give them a chance to live . Keeping none for himself. Fighting the rich to help the poor.

In time includes some Propps narratemes, Will leaves home, his normal life is disrupted, He's then tested, interrogated and attacked, Hero Fights back, Hero finds what hes searching for him, Hero and villain fight, Villain is defeated, Hero Is pursued, Task is resolved. All these narratems take place in this movie.

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Preliminary task


Preliminary task
For my Preliminary task I was put into a group with two other people. We were given a task to do and had two weeks too complete it. Our task was to re-create a scene from 'The Godfather' in an original not by copying it.

What will happen?
In this scene we had to include 4 things:
  • A character opening a door
  • The character crossing a room
  • The character sitting down in a chair opposite another character. 'match-on-action'
  • The two characters exchange a couple of lines of dialogue. 'Shot-reverse-shot'
Blocked plan
After discussing with my group we moved on to make a blocked plan of what will happen in the scene we create. This helped us see exactly what we wanted to see in our scene.


  • Shot of character walking towards a door.
  • Shot of door and two guards standing by it.
  • Close up of characters hand pushing the door.
  • Match-on-action, Character walks through the door
  • Character walks across the room and sits in the chair
  • Cuts to 'The Godfather' and two guards standing behind his chair
  • 'The Godfather' starts talking and they have a conversation, Shot-reverse-shot. 



Story board 

After the blocked plan was sorted out we proceeded to create a story board from it. The story board helped us see how we wanted to structure each shot whether its a long shot or a close up. It also gave us something to work off when filming the actual scene as we knew exactly what we wanted.


Story board-page 1
Story Board-page2


Pre-production- Mise-en-scene
By looking at mise-en-scene we found out what needed to create the right setting for our scene and to make it look more realistic.

Props
  • Black pillows
  • Fake cigar
  • Black cloth
  • Chairs
  • Table
  • Glass
Location
  • Drama Studio
Costume
  • Black blazer
  • Black trousers
  • Black tie
  • Black shades
  • Black shoes
  • White Shirt
Lighting
  • Dark, but face and body should be visible.




Production schedule
































The Production schedule helped me see exactly what I needed to be filming at what time and what kind of shot it's supposed to be. This saved time during the filming as I dint have to think about what I needed to do as much and just sped up the whole process.


Risk assessment


This was done before we started filming so we understood as a group all the possible things that could happen that would set us back. Possible injuries and damage to equipment. As we all understood this there were no problems and the shooting was risk free.



The Final Piece  -The Godfather










My part in this was cameraman/director. I did all the filming and helped position the actors/props on stage to look the best on screen.

Feedback
The good thing about this scene was it flowed well, which means the editing was done well as the different shots were fitted together to look like one whole piece which is exactly what we wanted.
The framing was also very good, the lighting helped set the mood that we were looking for similar to the original scene. As we used a different range of shots it showed we were being creative and original with our ideas. For example the low angle shot of 'The Godfather' made him look bigger which makes him seem more powerful. The high angle shot of the man asking for help showed he was small and weak compared to 'The Godfather'.
Also we didn't break the 180 degree rule, we used match-on-action and the shot-reverse-shot successfully.

Match-on-Action

Shot-reverse-shot

The things that weren't so good and that we should improve on was the continuity as we used the same actors that were guarding the door to be standing behind 'The Godfather' as his body guards. This may have looked odd to the audience as first they were at the door and suddenly there behind the sofa and it wasn't shown how they got there. So for next time I should show them walk in or use different actors.
The music was a bit to loud so may have slightly drowned out the dialogue, some of the audience felt that the music should have stopped completely when they began to talk as it didn't fit in with the mood so we need to be more careful with that. Lastly the scene was too long, we need to be more careful with timing.