Cumha - Production Blog

02 by grace magee

In preparation for writing the review of Cumha , I read movie reviews, primarily from Empire Magazine. Movie reviews seem to exist in their own genre; they're borderline informal but still incredibly factual and precise, so reading as many as I could was a good idea, as it helped me gauge the tone for the Cumha review better. For the actual layout of the review, we used Adobe InDesign, as it gave us more options for the layout than Photoshop would have.  InDesign allowed us to create a double-page spread, and also gave us a selection of fonts to choose from, to really enhance the professional appearance. It was tricky to get the hang of at first, so I googled plenty of tutorials to help me, and eventually, it became fairly similar to creating the poster.  We did a photoshoot with R í bh for the double page spread, and our decision to use our leading lady instead of Michael came from the desire to keep the plot of Cumha as ambiguous as possible. ...

During the post-production stage of Cumha , we realised that the movie was only coming to about two and a half minutes, which wasn't long enough. We decided to add more establishing shots during the Dream sequence in Scene 2, the shortest scene, which includes more closeups of foliage. As we approach better weather, more plants are blooming, which gives us a much greater choice of things to include.  These extra shots helped creates a calm, tranquil atmosphere, so that the ending is very blunt. Jane also took extra shots for the opening shot, of a light going on in attic room. It was suggested that we have shots of The Boy walking to the train station after Scene Two, where he sees other couples, and thinks about The Girl. I, personally, didn't like this idea.  The scenes are so neatly divided, and the shots are characteristically sharp, that I thought adding shots of The Boy walking and thinking outside the three set locations ...