General sum up - Evaluation.

Originally the idea was to make a psychological thriller based on an Ouija board and ghosts however it wasn't enough, so we added a guy watching our girl characters (previously written about). However when showing a preview to the class, the genre wasn't as obvious as we wanted and we just realised that it didn't fit well together, so we looked at more film openings and changed our idea.

We have now based the 2 minute opening clip similar to the film 'scream'. This means we still could use some footage as before and have the time to edit new material. We kept the location the same, which was outside in a wooden gazebo along with the woods next to it, not much would change and if the weather made a small change we could easily edit it so it was similar to a week beforehand filming. In many film openings that we looked at, the location didn't seem as important. Often it was in a house,street or woods where we wouldn't normally expect something scary to happen. It's same with this location, it doesn't look that morbid.

We used a variety of different shots such as, point of view or over the shoulder. So it was hard to guess what was happening next. We also thought as a group this made what was on screen more tense. It was only until we added sound that it was all brought together. At the beginning the sound is dieagetic and in sync with what's on screen. Suddenly the music then changes to non-dieagetic which makes the atmosphere on scene tense. (This is what we wanted) So the audience are already on the edge. Although the task was to only make a 2 minute opening we wanted to make it look as if something more could happen from it. We think this has worked, although we didn't necessary stick to the original plan we had it almost worked out better for us as it wouldnt of fit the conventions before and we needed to learn from our mistakes so the project could develop and get better.