eXpErImEnTaL.

When we first found out that our genre was experimental, we were all a little skeptical. This was mainly because we had no clue what an experimental film actually was. But experimental is just that: an experiment. It challenges what the audience perceives a film to be. We're doing our best to challenge our audience while still keeping the film entertaining! I think it's working…

A film about the end of the world isn't exactly original these days, so we decided to take a slightly different approach. Similar to the movie "Signs," we tried to focus on main characters that were completely uninvolved in the chaos taking place. In films such as "Independence Day," the audience is given multiple viewpoints that show us exactly what is going on. In our film we show several viewpoints, but only from average people who are either panicked, oddly calm, or about to die. It's freakier that way, I think!

We agreed that odd camera angles would be a good way to be experimental, but how do we go about that? Matt basically just tried out several different positions when we were filming a scene. Often times he was lying on the ground or slanted completely sideways to try and create an interesting effect. One scene has Matt running behind some people to simulate what it would be like to be the person in the back of the group. Another shot shows people running out of a door frantically, but only from their knees to the floor. My favorite shot in the film is the very last one, but I don't want to spoil the ending just yet! Hopefully these shots will come off as interesting, and not just lame attempts to be different.

That leads me to my next point. One of my concerns about our film is that there is so much pressure on our film to be odd or different that we seem almost indifferent about our mistakes. I have found that all of us shrug off little issues like messing up a line or not getting an adequate shot with, "Oh it's okay. It's supposed to be experimental." But I still want it to be a legitimately well made film. I'm not really worried though. Our group will definitely pull together and polish any mistakes that we may have made.