The Last Supper

On Matt and the group reviewing the 12th sequence of the film although the film had come a long way over the past couple of weeks. The ending came across as too flat compared to the dynamic nature of the rest of the film.

Initially, the idea for the ending clip was that the 'viewer' switches off the TV and goes outside which was to be represented by a minute-long clip of Mariam's garden. However, moving forward although we liked the idea. It just didn't work and our respective peers didn't understand the last clip when we showed them the film.

As a new suggestion for the ending Mariam came up with the idea of all the channels going to 'No signal' suggesting programming has stopped. Another suggestion from Matt was a really fast credit roll much like that the end of Sean Baker's Tangerine discussed in an earlier blog post.

As a group, we decided to incorporate both the ideas into the end sequence. The last clip goes back to Lillie at the side of the pool as the murder audio plays on the catch-up channel '5STAR'. This links back to the beginning of the film, so it is as if the audience has missed the entirety of the story, hopefully creating a sense of frustration. Just as Lillie is about to fall into the water the screen shows the channel number '030' and 'no signal' indicating programming will start again at '10 am'. The channel switches to the end credits of 'Casablanca' except they are running at a comically fast speed so the audience cant read them accompanied by the main theme music from 'Casablanca'. The channel then switches through various other channels all saying 'no signal'. The screen turns then black suggesting to the audience the film is over except it isn't as the DVD logo bounces across the screen again. Having the end of the film reflect the beginning of the film suggest the cyle of frustration we go through daily. I do believe the ended is more humourous that my group intended but I think that is largely due to me doing all the editing and I usually end up making whatever work I'm doing largely satrical.

In adding the final credits of the film, I decided to bounce them across the screen in the same way the DVD does so the language of the film doesn't just end at the credits.

Lillie also came up with a title for the film "Working Remotely". Which I thought was very apt considering the majority of this film was made via zoom calls and working remotely.