In order to get an idea of what to do with my short film I am looking at a previous wyke students short film, Riley Wong, I am looking at Riley's as I have seen it before and thoroughly enjoyed it and he also got a very good grade. I am watching his film 'Avarice' and seeing how many shots are in each scene as although my film will have more of a dark side to it, I believe the structure of Riley's film matches mine well.
In the opening scene of Riley's film, it starts off very slowly as the opening scene lasts 1 minute 55 seconds and within this time period there are only 23 shots that take place. This means each shot lasts on average 5 seconds which is a long time for a single shot, this allows us as the audience to get into the film slowly and not rush straight into the main angle of the film.
The second scene has a much faster pace to it as the 1 minute and 13 seconds that it is on the screen for, it has 28 shots, so in a shorter time period it has an extra 5 shots, this means each shot is on the screen for an average of 2.6 seconds, this means the pace has just about doubled as it is showing you the item that is going to be the main body of the film and showing you that this item will lead to the climax.
The third scene is incredibly fast, I counted 32 shots in a time period of 38 seconds and i'm not sure whether I may have missed a couple of shots so it could have been more, this means however that each shot was on the screen on average for 1.2 seconds, this again has doubled in pace from the last scene, Riley has done this to show that the jar doubling her money has gone to her head and she is rushing into stupid decisions.
The fourth and final scene returns back to a slower pace as it has 15 shots in 47 seconds that means each shots last on average 3.1 seconds, this is to show that her power has stopped and the jar has taken away her priveledge as she has become greedy.
