Preliminary Evaluation

I feel like our Prelim went very well taking into account our short filming window. We had to shoot more than once however, in order to get a shot variety that we wanted and to give ourselves editing options when it came to it.

I feel like our framing and our composition were spot on for what we wanted. At the start of the video we wanted to focus on the main character (Harry) as much as possible. We therefore knew that framing and composition would be crucial in achieving this. Our plan was to draw in the audience to focus on him in order to build up to something, this is was the end scene, for the audience to do this and not become distracted by any piece of mise-en-scene in the shot, our framing and compostion had to be very carefully planned and executed. For example here are a couple of stills from the opening:

All of our shots and tracking were done on a tri-pod, we did think about doing a couple of shots using free hand to give us more variety, but we decided not to use them in the final production. I think overall we chose our shots very well.

I feel our shots as our main character walks into the room were very well edited in order to keep our continuity. We would want to use these kind of shots in our thriller. The way we did not give away the identity of the killer (Me) until he kills the main character is what we would like to build on for our thriller, we used this to create tension and mystery in the story and it gives the audience a good set-up for the rest of the film.

For the shots of the main character walking throught the corridor we used medium and long shots. We also took some close up shots to create more tension however we decided not to include these whilst editing. We knew again that our framing especially would be important when using long shots, so we planned carefully. For the shots of Harry walking into the room we used some elevated shots and  some close ups of the door handle to place emphasis on the event about to occur. Once Harry was in the room we used over the shoulder shots and a medium shot to show a possible relationship between the two, perhaps the charcters know each other ? We used mainly straight cuts throughout apart from a few 'fade to black' transitions when changing locations (corridor to room)

Overall our aim was to get the audiecne guessing about the possible relationship between the characters in order for them to want to see the rest of the film. I feel as though we achieved this using our soundtrack and editing techniques by putting it in black and white as it could mean it was in the past/future, and our soundtrack by trying to create a sense of sorrow as Harry is killed.

We can now build on our techniques of shots, editing and planning from this for our thriller. We have learnt alot in the course of filiming and there's alot to take from our experience.