Final film

I am very happy with our film as a whole, and feel that it has managed to convey all the aspects of domestic abuse that we formally wished to illustrate.

Todays sound recording for final part of our film

Today we recorded our voice overs as part of additional sound for our film. As well as this, we also decided that the previous piece of music was not fitting enough to recreate a music box, and therefore decided to record a different piece of music to layer over our film. We used a different child who was not in the film to record the sound as she was older and could understand the context of what we wanted her to say, which gave us a more emotional and hard hitting voice. However, she was young enough to sound like a young innocent child.

Ideologies and representation


Common ideologys say that a family would be a mother, father and children as a unit- our product shows this traditional family but with untraditional morals and values. The way in which we challenge the 'happy family' idea but by conforming to the stereotype of male against female shows a negative representation of the modern female but as our film progresses the female fights back to show how it is possible.

Feedback on Evaluation

Q4 - need to comment on media technologies and the impact they have had.

Q3- what did i find out and change as a result of audience feedback- summarise it as well as adding more information about the film and the review

We needed our sound to be appropriate and correspond to the imagery we had created. So instead of having a basic sound track we toyed with the idea of a narrative script. Bella’s voice, the voice of a child would be much more emotive and could really trigger that reaction needed for a sensitive campaign.

By Bella telling her story through the eyes of a child it again adds another dimension to our film and becomes even more touching.

At the end I believed that it was absolutely necessary to have a positive resolution. Now in the end scene we see Eve smile and laugh for the first time. We felt that the title silenced with the slogan who will have the last word needed to be a question that Eve could answer on behalf of abused woman, and say she will not be silenced and she will have the last word.    

The script-

Bella: “Once upon a time there was a family, we played hide and seek. But he would always find us, but mummy was always there. She kept daddy away and always made things fun. She loves me more than anything, she always kept me safe. But when daddy shouts, mummy's quiet, no one keeps her safe”

Throughout the shots of Bruce and I arguing we will have whispers of Bella saying 'Stop it daddy' 'leave mummy alone'.

Bella: “Until mummy got brave, he left us alone, the shouting stopped. The scars faded, we held our heads high. Mummy smiles now.”

As the last scene fades to black there will be a voice over from Eve saying “I will have the last word, I will not be silenced”

Teacher feedback

>Change the poster as to wording and text, consider what it connotes -Consider ideology's and representation within our product

>Change the size of the review image

Re- filming

As we needed to re-soot our ending for our film, yesterday we re-shot the second half which will hopefully conclude our film. We filmed our female protagonist's face, with her having minimal make-up on and stripped back hair to connote simplicity, vulnerability and herself as the character being stripped back.

Evaluation Q4- How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?