Our Original Film Opening

This is our original incomplete film opening before we scrapped the idea;


0:00-0:36 - This scene is much too slow and did not give the creepy effect that we wanted. It was also much too dark and is based too much on the character and not the surroundings. I do like how the camera began in pitch black and focused and brightened when he switched on the red light, aswell as the creek of the door. The shot of the collage of girls was also not long enough for the audience to understand what it was. The pan from the collage to the stalker is not very smooth either which looks very uneffective. I think that there is not enough clear movement after he drops the glass on the floor to when he sticks up the photographs, it is also not clear what he is even doing.
This was not the original beginning as we would have filmed more footage if we had carried on with this idea.

0:36-0:48 - Again, the shot is very dull and long. I do like the wide shot though as it shows that the stalker appears to look like a normal man walking down the road up until he looks up at the girls house and waits at her alleyway. On this part of footage we practised with iMovies "Day to Night" effect which gives it the blue tint, personally I do not like this effect as it does not look realistic. The problem we had with light and brightness from the sun is also obvious from this shot. We did not use various angles as we wanted to keep the stalkers face hidden, however this did not work well as it makes the shot very boring.

0:48-0:55 - I like this shot from inside the house as it is a bit of a break from the outside shots. I like the editing of the sound also as it is silent except from the door slamming shut.

0:55-1:03 - I like this shot but the transition from the previous is not smooth enough. This shot almost creates a barrier between the two characters through their opposite sides of the wall and when the girl steps out the drive, leaving the 'barrier' she is leaving her 'safety zone'. I think the shot should end once the girl has stepped out the shot rather than watching the man continue walking because it needlessly longs out the shot making it dull again.

1:03-1:07 - I do not like this shot mainly because the transition was not perfect as we had not edited correctly so the shots jumped from one to another.

1:07-1:12 + 1:18-1:22 - I really like these shots as it is a point of view of the stalker. We kept the same effects as the other outside shots but added on a black fade to the corners which focused on the girl who was in very light colours. I also like when the girl turns around and the stalker looks away as this provides us with a medium shot of the girls face to show the confusion on her face.

1:12-1:18 + 1:22-1:24 - These shots were improvised on the day of filming and they did look good until we edited the point of view shots, so now they look very jumpy and odd as the shots skip from one effect to another. They also aren't muted like most of the other shots as we were midway through editing.

1:24-1:26 - I am undecided on this shot. I like the effects and that when the hand reaches out it goes white and this focuses the viewer well. I also like that it is slow motion to add tension. However I dislike the point of the shot, I do not like the reaching out at all. I think it would have been more effective if there was a close up from infront of the girl with either the man placing his hand on her shoulder and they had both stop walking to show the fear on her face or the man putting his hand over her mouth and her eyes widening to show panic.

1:26-1:52 - Alot is missing for the last scene returning to the darkroom. The photographs came out too dark so that you could not see what they were of. The mobile light would not stay on and continued to flash which could have looked creepy - but it seems not. Also our names were on the pictures of ourselves to be used as credits with a pan shot, however after reading the marking criteria we discovered we must have our credits on made on iMovie.