Making Cumha longer

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 would take away from what makes Cumha neat. Also, the longer we see The Boy in reality, the easier it is to guess the ending, as his general demeanour makes it clear that he's not the romantic type. Cumha works best when its neat and vague, and adding too many shots of The Boy in reality ruins this.

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Update on filming 3

Our main actor Calum has dropped out completely. We found a new actor very last minute, Michael Kelly , whose willing to jump in and fill his role. Michael Kelly Role: The Boy Height: 6' Build: Lanky Appearance: Pale complexion, medium length brown hair, pale eyes Experience: None This leaves the shots we took earlier and edited pretty much useless, which is not ideal but there's no time to reshoot them and get the photos printed for this Sunday. We can use one dream sequence shot of Ríbh on her own which is still useable, so that's what we'll have to work with. This could work as it implies that The Boy and The Girl don't have any relationship at all and makes the twist ending a scarier reveal. It wasn't what we planned, but we can work with it.

Poster progress

We initially had three ideas for our poster: a smashed clock, that is seen in the opening shot of Cumha , a screenshot from the movie of the girl's face smiling over the flowers, and a picture of The Girl with a dart through it, all of which are pictured below. We first ruled out using a screenshot from the movie, as this isn't a very professional approach, and then decided not to go along the lines of using the dart as a) the dart board never appears in movie and b) it implies that the movie would be a slasher or horror, which it is not. Here are the photos we took after we smashed the clock, a symbol of The Boy's hopes and fantasies, as a hint to people looking at the poster of what is to happen. At first, we couldn't decide between the third or fourth photo, so I decided to do some trials with the third photo, as it's my favourite photo, but it wasn't portrait, as most posters ar...

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