evaluation activity 1

This first screenshot is very open to the fact that the character is further away from where we are shotting we have chosen a long shot to start the film to show the audience the setting and surrounding which the film begins in. We also wanted to start the film suspicious and calm so that the tension builds up through each shot. The character is straight away shown calm and normal walking home as a normal day to day routine. In this shot the camera follows her as she walks past the camera until her phone rings which was we added in and the shot changes.

This shot here is zoomed in this gives the audience time to look at the main character and what she is wearing. She is shown to be young child that has just finished school. The props used show the time that its set in which is nowaday 2013 and that it was approxiametly around winter as the weather and atmosphere is cold and dark. Aswell in this shot it has its first dialogue which sums up what is going on in the beginning opening two minutes reason it worked well is because it doesnt drag on and it gets straight to the point giving information which help the audience understand.

In this show have slight done a low angle show so that the effect we were trying to show would work. we wanted the girl to walk away and suddenly a figure appear behind but we needed her to be bigger than it so we need to look up at her to make her look aswell a bigger person and very brave. She has her hands in her pockets which means that she is walk casual through the
millpond oblivious to whats happening this brings tension to the audience as they know that something is going to happen as a mysterious no faced character is lerking behind her.

 we did a close up shot of her feet walking which brought more tension as she picked up pace and that we was taken away from everything around her and to the fact that they had seen the mysterious figure the tension builds. We decided to put music into it to set the atmosphere and as we included music it fit the genre which was horror. We also added the effect of black and white which drained the colour out of the shots and made it look dull and scary it also brought more focus on the character and the sounds which were included.

 This shot the girl has a feeling that somethings going on and someone is following her which means she stops suddenly and heistates and turns around this brings tension as anything could happen but we are unaware and so is she so it puts us into her shoes like we are part of the film. The fact that i chose a medium shots means that were closer to the character and more tension is built than taking a shot from a long distance it wont have the same impact.

 As she continues to walk and we take a long shot and she walks the figure appears again it shows the audience that its following her and that eventually something is going to happen her but nothing can be done about it. we used this again because then audience will be on the edge of there seats because the second time we shown the figure it was closer to the girl than before which means that in a few more shot that something is going to happen.

 As she turns around we put focus on her face as she has no emotion as you can see fear on her face and you know from the point to how close the shot is the minute she turns around something is going to happen to her so the tension has built up to the maximum and to the fact the 2 minutes is nearly over you know that any second now the figure will appear and do something.

 she turns around and literally right infront of her is the figure we did an effect so that the girl was blurry and the figure is blurry this ment that the audience focused on that more and got to analyse it.
This is also a good shot because the audience dont know whats going to happen next and they can understand how she must be feeling the fear and tension in the shot




we ended the two minutes with a scream which you cannot see as we blackened the shot out so that its a mystery to what the figure decided to do to the little girl but as there was a scream it shows the audience that she was either screaming of fear or something was done during the blacked out part, this is a good cliff hanger to end the two minutes as it leaves the audience wanting to find out if she was killed. Then after few seconds of blacked out shot the title appears bold, worn, scratched away. It has a white font as it stands out with the background aswell the fact of using white font makes it look cold and it suits the theme of using the effect of black and white with each shot taken in the opening two minutes.