Feed Back of Final Production

• How effectively edited is the thriller?

• Great use of filters which are placed perfectly within each change of shot. Reuse of the shoe shot creates a relapse effect that increases tension.

• Thought that the repetition got a bit boring after a while but showed a lot of mystery. All in all great work.

• Discuss the use of sound in this thriller, both diegetic and non-diegetic. What emotions does it invoke and how effective is it?

• Crackling of leaves is effective use of diegetic sound.
• Speech; screaming adds reality to the & suspense make you wonder whats going on.
• Music; fits well - right pace of music for the visuals. Not too fast/not too dull. Strings often used in thrillers, which fits with conventions.
  

• What words would you use to describe the visual style?

• Always a point of view shot. Invokes a sense of confusion. Put in position of victim or murderer.

• Highlight at least three things that you think are good about this thriller and two areas for development or suggestions of how things could have been done differently

• The heart beat in the music is good.
• The music itself is also good.
• The shaky camera, works to a good effect.
• The titles could have been a bit more subtle and they lasted a bit too long too.
• It was a little too much of the same type of shot, not enough variation of angles - also plot was a little confusing.
  

Individual analysis

I think our finished project was an all round good finished project. I think its very interesting quite intriguing and i would like to watch it too see the whole of the film.
Our music worked well as it built up tension by ggetting faster and ythen a lot slower when the titles were coming to an end. The sound of the feet crunching on the leaves below their feet made good sounds and worked well too.

Individual Work

I think that our final piece was quite good, it fit together well, and the scenes only jumped slightly once, the reason for such a jump was to mark the end of one scene, and the beginning of another. We started off using three characters, but in the end we used only brief shots of two, and the voice of another. Others in our class have commented that it works well. And that is what I believe as well.
For me, the editing and camera-work mixed completely. Everything we did with the camera was edited; sepia tone added and saturation increased.

7Feedback :( 8

• questions proposed to the critics

1. Can you describe what happens in our thriller ?
2. Would you describe our video as thriller or horror ?
3. Would you carry on watching ?
4. Have you made good use of Final Cut?
5. Did you like it and why ?
6. What would you change ?

• answers that were given by the snotty critics

1. Not much, someone is in a wood- not sure actually Blair Witch in colour haven't a clue just a person moving
   
2. Thriller, more half and half though,-neither- imitation of Blair Witch but unsuccessful
   
3. No sorry, seemed to boring, too much of the same thing- no, too boring- no it didn't seemed to go anywhere
   
4. some shots were great, great colour titiles went well, more cuts, more variety, more time spent on the killer- the titles are good but same shots not much editing and very repeptitive
   
5. yes and no, good shots at times but go on for far too long
   
6. • Colour
     
   • filmed at night
     
   • trainer shot was unclear
     
   • different effects
     
   • more diegetic sounds used, breathing, rusting etc.
     
   • less woodland
     
   • different camera angles
     
   
   

7Future Essay Plans 8

A discussion of the filming process:

• What happened in your filming ?
• What role did you play?
• Were there any issues with the props, location, actors?- How did you deal with them ?
• If you had the chance to film it again what would you do differently
  

A discussion of the editing process:

• What involvement did you have in the editing process?
• How successful was your finished project?
• How you worked with the music and visual effects?
• Explain your mise-en-scene (visual style)

An analysis of your final piece:

• Include a discussion of music, sound, mise-en-scene, action, editing, narrative, use of characters.

• Include a discussion of thriller conventions and how your piece deals with these, which conventions does it explore.

7"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."8
Wittgenstein

After assessing the situation that we were creating to film we delved with a script. We eventually came to the conclusion that we use suggestion and suspense. This was our linchpin to try and create something that resembled an old silent film, as these films were the foundation of all modern media. We then went down to the foundation of language to try and help us with a narrative and we stumbled upon the scriptures of Wittgenstein. This added security for our decision to not include speech as it would make it supeflious.

7Our Musical Influences8

As a group our musical tastes and interests varied to the greatest extent. We all, though, had a very mutual agreement that film music was underrated, under-celebrated but mainly a catalyst to exposing the true emotions that we attempted to put forward on the footage. Although our soundtrack is somewhat basic, we have been experimental and bold in our musical adventure. The composer who was out main influence was Danny Elfman who is both experimental and bold in his work.

we have had a few problems with the camera settings, the widescreen option has handicapped our different types of photography.