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Film Review on Spite

Film review on SPITE
(Editors Point of View)

This movie was aimed towards children that don’t understand what drives some bullies to behave in the manner they do so. The opening scene in our movie was created particularly this way to illustrate the reasons of why some children behave the way they do.

Upon completion of my first edits done by myself of the opening scene, I watched it again for evaluation and found some errors.  For example; brightness-some scenes were thought to be too bright, and so I darkened them and applied blue like filters to them.  This edit was made to ensure that particular scenes don’t get drowned out with light, thus adding the effect of cold\hurting.

Having evaluated the movie, I felt AJ’s acting was somewhat good, however he needed to put more effort in his acting as a bully in order to come across as a harder bully.  However, his efforts were acceptable for someone that has never acted before, and due to limited time, it was a good enough effort to get by. After several repeated recordings of the same scene, AJ finally managed to get his lines right.

Abdullah, played the victim in this movie just as well as AJ did as the bully. I conclude from my evaluations that both actors performed equally to one another. Further evaluation on this matter I can say that I am happy with both actors as no conflict arose because of their acting and criticism given from viewers.

Several scenes deliberately appear rather yellow and pale. This resulted from was both camera tricks and video editing; in order to show the pain, the bully is feeling, and the pain the bully is inflicting upon the victim.
The location of this scene was deliberately chosen as there was orange lighting and the sun didn't shine as well in this corridor, thus making it very dull. This was great as it could show the emotions of the bully after being 'told off' and how the thoughts of his father are clouding his judgement.

The following scene goes to show how anger/hopelessness can be channeled in to abuse/hatred.

 The way AJ's name was shown is quite unique, showing that he is the main focal point of the movie and Billy's name comes up quite small. Thus making him a minority. But he isn't a minority as victims can be severely damaged 

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