Talk with Dave

At the end of the our group had a little discussion with Dave, it was a while since we last spoke to ave or Mike about our film idea. Josh began explaining the story to Dave as he had his storyboards on the computer. Earlier in the day we all gathered in the third year room to time out the length of the film,i thought we were aiming for at least 2 minutes but it came up to 1 and a half which is pretty good. As Sam and Dan acted out the scenes and Josh timing them, it gave us a rough idea of how long each shots were going to be and to avoid any unnecessary actions. I cant remember who but someone tweaked the ending of the film which i think works really good. As I and also the other members of the group felt having the film end off with one of the ninjas hand landing of the target was not a way to end a film off. Someone suggested having the target praising the hitman for saving his life and as the hitman walk out towards the front door the camera pans round to show a whole army of ninjas waiting to attack.

The reason i thinks this works so well and also what Dave thought worked well was that the audience really doesn't know if the mission was actually successful.Towards the end of the film the hitman manages to save the target from being assassinated by the ninjas, and when the last ninja is killed the audience will think that the mission to save the target was successful. But when the hitman walks out the front door he is then confronted by a whole army of ninjas as the film comes to an end, Dave said that this ending worked well as it lead the audience wanting to see if the hitman and the alleged target are able to make it out alive.