Preliminary Exercise

To prepare ourselves for the filming of of our actual thriller, we were required to film a short extract as our preliminary exercise in order to practice with using the film camera. We shot a short extract including some sub-standard acting and dialogue from myself and Myles Wilson. Below is our work;

Evaluation
To evaluate our video, I watched it over a few times and decided my own opinions on it. I believe that the editing is at a satisfactory standard for the first attempt at editing and we have managed to link together shots at a reasonable standard without any glaring mistakes or errors which is good signs for the filming. Although having an amazing voice, I believe a suggestion would be to complete as much of our filming for our actual thriller with limited dialogue as the acting through dialogue is not to a satisfactory standard to build up tension.

Also, a glaring error I have noticed for the film is the reflection of the camera woman Jess in the reflection, this obviously will make the scene lose all confusion and we will need to look at improving the camera angle when we film our actual film so we don't lose all suspense and confusing atmosphere that we are aiming to create.

A final tip for suggestion, I have for this extract of footage is the zoom in close up we tried to counter is rather blurry and we will have to find a way of making close ups to create a more scary illusion in the film whether this means bringing the camera closer or another suggestion which will improve the film and give the atmosphere of a real thriller. Although, my heavy criticism on this extract of footage, I am satisfied at this for the first attempt and feel the highlight is the editing, we will use this extract to learn from our mistakes as we start to start filming during the next few weeks and will keep you posted with ideas and research we do for this.