The Counselor

This film has a well known and respected cast, such as Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Cameron Diaz. It also has a well-known director, as Ridley Scott directs it, who directed Alien and Prometheus. The writer is also respected for films such as No Country for Old Men. This is an example of a big american film, and it is loaded with action. The Counselor is shown in multiplex cinemas all over the globe. This film is about drug smuggling and recently drug related films have become popular.

Aims and Context

• 'Shatter Resistant' 
• film production
• psychological thriller
• short film
• 16-21 year olds
• director, editor and camera operator (shared roles)
• mixture of extreme high-key and low-key lighting

Reflective Analysis

Our task was to make a film sequence consisting of 10 shots. Firstly, were separated into groups of 4/5 people, apart from my group, which was originally only 3 people, who were myself, Jenna and Megan. Because we only had 3 people, Jakob joined our group. We were randomly assigned a genre, and we got Film Noir. The initial stage in the task was to come up with a storyboard for our sequence, where Jakob and me came up with the majority of the sequence while Jenna and Megan drew it onto the storyboards (if done very crudely). The next task was filming the sequence. During this stage, Jenna and Megan did absolutely nothing. Instead of filming they decided to get a coffee, and refused to even control the camera, let alone get in front of it. Because of this, we had to get a random college student to play the part of the femme fatale, and I was the only member of the group that acted in the film, because Jakob was filming most of it. The next part of the task was to edit our sequence, which took place in the following lesson, to which neither Jenna nor Megan turned up to, leaving Jakob and me to do the entire thing. It was the first time either me or Jakob had used editing software, but I think it went well and our sequence was surprisingly good considering there were 2 crewmembers when the other groups had 4. J