I am really impressed with some of the cool shots you guys got. Well done. You have put thought into how to recreate the conventions of a thriller film and have done a god job of putting them together. With added time spent on refining your editing, I know the continuity and the way you told the story, could have been tweaked and made more suspense-filled. You have definitely achieved a measure of suspense with the use of vulnerable characters and a really scary scenario.
- music over the opening logo is effective and sets the tone for your movie - Logo may have been more effective in a lighter colour or with a different background to have more of a contrast so logo is easier to see - establishing shots are great, establishing continuity of style is important and to have a steady shot then a handheld, shaky shot and back into a steady, stable shot doesn't really work. The shaky, hand-held works well and potential you didn't even need the 3rd one (if you were going to get quite a few establishing shots, it works well to get them from different angles and you could have potentially done some jump cuts of the tent from different angles) - font works well for credits - pan after that many establishing shots is unnecessary - echo effect over the footage works well - tilt upwards is great - random tree shot in-between day and night doesn't fit (this could have been the day tree shot fading into nighttime tree shot) - effective shots of Kevin walking through the woods - nice use of shadows (the contrast between light and dark is also effective) - Thinking through how realistic the scary is, is also important for audience engagement (this is verisimilitude - how realistic is it?) One girl outside the tent, waiting behind a tree who willlingly gets Kevin grab her etc, is a bit unrealistic. I would have stuck with the 2 girls in the tent or even had 1 girl missing but we don't know at this stage what happens to her. Alternatively you could have had the realistic events of the girl who sees the crazy ax-man, screaming when she saw him - Suspense could really have been added using the contrasting shots of the girl/girls in the tent freaking out or even sleeping, and Kevin walking with the ax. This cross-cutting between two locations really helps the audience make those connections between danger and the vulnerable characters - end shot of the tent reveal is great and it's an effective end to the film - tree shot is good, too.
Hi Chloe
ReplyDeleteScore: 17/20
I am really impressed with some of the cool shots you guys got. Well done. You have put thought into how to recreate the conventions of a thriller film and have done a god job of putting them together. With added time spent on refining your editing, I know the continuity and the way you told the story, could have been tweaked and made more suspense-filled. You have definitely achieved a measure of suspense with the use of vulnerable characters and a really scary scenario.
- music over the opening logo is effective and sets the tone for your movie
- Logo may have been more effective in a lighter colour or with a different background to have more of a contrast so logo is easier to see
- establishing shots are great, establishing continuity of style is important and to have a steady shot then a handheld, shaky shot and back into a steady, stable shot doesn't really work. The shaky, hand-held works well and potential you didn't even need the 3rd one (if you were going to get quite a few establishing shots, it works well to get them from different angles and you could have potentially done some jump cuts of the tent from different angles)
- font works well for credits
- pan after that many establishing shots is unnecessary
- echo effect over the footage works well
- tilt upwards is great
- random tree shot in-between day and night doesn't fit (this could have been the day tree shot fading into nighttime tree shot)
- effective shots of Kevin walking through the woods
- nice use of shadows (the contrast between light and dark is also effective)
- Thinking through how realistic the scary is, is also important for audience engagement (this is verisimilitude - how realistic is it?) One girl outside the tent, waiting behind a tree who willlingly gets Kevin grab her etc, is a bit unrealistic. I would have stuck with the 2 girls in the tent or even had 1 girl missing but we don't know at this stage what happens to her. Alternatively you could have had the realistic events of the girl who sees the crazy ax-man, screaming when she saw him
- Suspense could really have been added using the contrasting shots of the girl/girls in the tent freaking out or even sleeping, and Kevin walking with the ax. This cross-cutting between two locations really helps the audience make those connections between danger and the vulnerable characters
- end shot of the tent reveal is great and it's an effective end to the film
- tree shot is good, too.