From the course: Creating a Short Film: 05 Directing
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Controlling the tone
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 05 Directing
Controlling the tone
- Let's talk about controlling the tone of a film. For The Assurance I felt it was necessary to set the tone immediately, before the film even started. Since my films have been comedies and a lot of short films are comedies, I created an opening credit sequence that helped set the tone. The movement is slow and brooding, and the music is also somewhat static, lots of whole notes, which adds to the heavy and ominous vibe of the film. Now all of this doesn't have to do with the tone really, the opening credits are also kind of a mystery that's put together at the end of the credits as we realize that the opening credit sequence is actually just pieces of the assurance that we were looking at. So the opening credits don't just establish the darker tone of the film, but they also establish this idea of putting together a mystery. And we'll look a little bit more at this idea later in this chapter. I also think there were a few moments that underscored the tone of the film well. The slow…
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