Self Critique for Proj #4

Stephanie Black
Project #4
Oral Fixation - March 30, 2011

Someone (Katy) is going through a box of things, apparently random objects, and picks up a lollipop stick. Scene changes to a classroom setting where Katy meets Amanda after getting a lollipop from her that came directly from her mouth. Scene changes to Katy and Amanda sitting down eating lunch. katy drops her fork and Amanda gives her hers to use instead. As they walk off to throw their garbage away Katy pockets the fork while being watched by someone. Scene cuts to Amanda drinking water when Katy walks into the kitchen. Amanda walks away and leaves her glass behind which Katy promptly drinks from until a new roommate walks in. Katy is in her room and hears a door open. Amanda has just left the bathroom and Katy, once she sees that no one is watching, goes into the bathroom behind her. Once in the bathroom Katy more or less molests Amanda's toothbrush while the new roommate approaches the bathroom. She pockets the toothbrush and leaves the bathroom, running to the new roommate on the way. Katy is not back in her room holding a toothbrush. She puts it into the box and closes it before stacking it on top of 2 other similar boxes. She picks them us and walks outside. Katy is about to throw away the boxes until she sees Amanda going through one of the boxes she had left on the ground. Amanda then say 'I never said stop' which leads to a series of flashback of the scenes shown earlier revealing that Amanda knew and if anything encourages Katy's stalker like behavior. The final scene is of when Katy and Amanda first met and you see Amanda watching Katy before she entered the room and then pulling out 6 lollipops, showing that there was really no need for Katy to take the lollipop that came directly from her mouth.


This film is supposed to make you curious as to how the whole situation started and what it will lead up to. There is supposed to be a bit of comedic relief at the fact that the stalker feels as though she's being watched by this new roommate when it is actually her best friend that is watching her and indirectly but purposefully encouraging her to stalk her best friend. Overall the film is about temptation. The temptation of wanting attention for yourself and the temptation of doing something you know is wrong but you still find hard to give up.

I feel as though my main problem areas are probably my sound editing and quite a few os my cuts are rather clumsy looking. I still need to improve on how i pan seeing as how I do like to use it a lot but cannot quite get it right each time.