Rough Cut Evaluation

We think that the rough cut went well and that the order of the shots make sense, however after watching the whole sequence we realised we missed some shots out and need to film these after the Christmas holidays.

Does the order of shots make sense

The order of shots were not completely how we planned but even better than we thought. We changed the speed of some shots to replicate that of collateral as this is where we got the idea of most of our sequence.

Quality of the camera work

For the most part the camera work was decent but there was a few shots that were shaky, for example, the second establishing shot was shaky. But we fixed them with warp stabilisation effect. This helped prevent too much movement in the camera which would be bad for our sequence.

Variety of shot types

We used a variety of shot types that developed the sequence from being simplistic to more complex which helped create a suspenseful atmosphere, some of the shots we used included, Over the shoulder, POV, close ups, medium shots, long shots, we also used some panning shots for the establishing shots and towards the ending.

Use of lighting

For our shoot, we made sure that the lighting was the same as it was a key in setting the atmosphere, apart from this we only used natural lighting. Lighting was important as most thriller films are done in the dark but we wanted to change this because it would set the scene more as we were near a canal so it would be expected that it would be light.

Performance of the characters

At first we see him walking in a way to make him look like the bad guy but once you see him bump into the mysterious character we can start to tell that the mysterious guy is bad.

Investigator
As a whole i think the investigator role was played well and that i stayed in character, i do think however that i could have changed my facial expression more to help build tension and suspense.

Mysterious guy

I felt that the mysterious character did a good job playing the role of the villain, but trying to hide it. If i could change anything, it would be the facial expressions.

The use of mise-en-sense with locations, setting and props and costumes

For locations and settings, regents canal was a good choice, at first we wanted to film in an alleyway but realised it is too cliche and we found a dark tunnel that would help. As a whole the canal was better as of a lot of thriller films do it in alleyways and we did not want to follow the same cliche.

For props an costumes, we used two notebooks and headphones. The notebooks were to represent each characters writing and when they clash they swap notebooks and this is when the investigator sees what was inside it and it becomes more obvious to the audience who is good and who is bad. The investigator wore casual smart clothing because he was meant to be the good guy, the mysterious guy wore all black clothing because he was meant to represent the villain.