Our Swede

Following up from our pitch for a swede, we were put into two groups and then had to make one. Our group decided to choose the film Taken, because we know the film well and thought we could put a twist into it. Me , Jake, Curtis, Hannah, James, Dec and Dom were in this group and made It in school. Here below is the swede me made.

Here is the pitch for a Swede




We used a various amount of shots in the Swede to give it a film look. However even though it is meant to look like a low budget film, we still tried to make it look okay. We used an over the head shot, Also a 2 shot and a shot reverse shot.

Shot Types

The first shot consisted of an over the shoulder shot, we used this to show the view form the girls perspective, we can tell the character is a girl because of the long hair, we also used this shot type so the identity of the character, was hidden form the audience to create a more suspense opening scene.Other shots that were included were a medium long-shot in the airport scene, to show the audience the setting of the scene and also close enough to see the characters emotions in this scene as they are leaving one another.

A high angled close up shot was used here to show the vulnerability of her farther because the girl is in a very dangerous place, it was also used to show that her dad was calling if this had of been a long shot this detail wouldn't have been put across to the viewers.

We used an over the shoulder shot and also a long shot, an over the shoulder shot was used to show the view of Amanda and a long shot used to get the full body in the frame of the picture and to give the audience a view of what was happening in the scene.

Overall i think that we could have produced a better Swede, even though it was meant to look low budget and a rip-off of the original. It still didn't look as good as it couldn't have been. You can't really pick out key scenes from the film and relate them to our video.