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Restricted Narrative | Beever Media

RESTRICTED NARRATIVE: BY KIERA TOLHURST We decided to film a restricted narrative film, to get an idea on how we could use particular techniques in our final product. A restricted narrative has less shots, and has little continuity. It can include jump cuts from one scene to another and the narrative has more cuts to make the shots more interesting and shorter. For example, in our small exercise, we shot Louis walking down to the vending machine in college. It is simple, lacks in continuity, and is shorter than the unrestricted. When he arrives at the vending machine, it is out of order, and in this cut, this is the only information the audience receives. 

Questionnaire Averages | Beever Media

Questionnaire Averages We created a questionnaire asking the public to answer questions on our film and their interests in films in general. One of the questions they answered about films was "What their favorite genre on film is?" the results were really helpful and positive for our film as we found that Romantic Comedy films were the most popular genre for our audience. Furthermore, the Comedy genre came in a close second which is another positive as our short film has elements of Romance and Comedy. From the results of our questionnaire we found that our short film attracted 54% of our audience by going by favorite genres only.  Another question we posed for our audience was "What certificate do you believe is appropriate for our short film?" and the results were once again positive. The majority of the public voted that a PG certificate was the most appropriate along with a U and 12/12a being popular too. When we were planning our film we decided that ...

Production Logo | Kiera Tolhurst