Creative Critical Response Questions

1. Our film does not challenge any conventions - not intentionally at least. The way it challenged conventions traditionally though is in the demographics of the mob along gender lines. Typically, those who are in the mob - especially those within the more powerful positions - are men. However, in our film both the mob boss as well and the "minion" are women. This is a subversive representation of a typical mob as instead of men, they are women.

2. Our movie attempts to engage with audiences by creating a suspenseful story where a mob boss and minion play a match of chess to death. Where it does lack though is in some sort of lesson or message. However, this is not pertinent to audience engagement though as plenty of great movies and stories in general don't teach a lesson or have an overarching message.

3. Now that the film has been completed I feel as though many of my production skills have been improved upon. Firstly, now that I've experienced planning a film and what goes into planning it, I have a much better idea of how to organize the planning, and what needs to be planned. Though we had a solid base in our plan, there was a lot more that needed to go into it. Due to poor planning we, unfortunately, experienced a lot of avoidable delays. Beyond the planning itself though, I have far more experience in how to film and sequence/pace the shooting of scenes. Now possessing all of this experienced I am well-poised for the creation of my first real film.

4. The creation of our film using technology came primarily down to two "main" pieces of technology; Sophie's phone (our camera) and the laptop. Sophie's phone was set up on a tripod that we'd use to help us keep our shots in the same place as well as stable/level at all times. Beyond this though, no other technologies were used except the laptop. However, Sophie used primarily her phone to edit the film since she was having trouble doing so on the laptop.